Where To Next? By Dan Kieran
Where To Next? By Dan Kieran is a podcast that archives episodes from the Do Radio Series. Hosted by Dan Kieran, the show explores various topics and features discussions. The podcast is available on Substack, where listeners can find more content.
Episodes
Where to Next? Episode twenty-three. Lascaux and the ‘Mind In The Cave’
As you will know if you have been following the series, ‘caves’ keep coming up in different ways. My journey began with a pilgrimage to a cave on the island of Raasay off the coast of Skye in Scotland, where evidence of our mesolithic ancestors has been found (if you’re curious, you can find the details of exactly where I went here). That trip led me into deeper enquiries around our indigenous anc
Where To Next? Episode twenty-two. Dr Jude Currivan, the cosmologist, author and futurist
The title of the conference was “The Good, the Beautiful and the True”. There were many wonderful speakers, not least the awesome man himself. Martin Shaw also spoke and brought his impish magic with him and then there was Jude. I had not heard of her before booking my ticket but as soon as she stood on the stage the atmosphere in the room changed. At first I thought it was just her smile, which w
Where To Next? Episode twenty-one. Indra Adnan at the Realisation Festival
At the Realisation Festival last year (2025) I had the pleasure of speaking to Jonathan Rowson, the chess grandmaster, philosopher and CEO of Perspectiva (Episode 5 if you’re curious). In that conversation he urged me to seek out Indra so, when I didn’t manage to speak to her before I left that day, I made a point of seeking her out at the festival this year. My experiences at the RF have been lif
Where To Next? Episode twenty. Sarah Corbett at the Realisation Festival.
When I arrived at the Realisation Festival this year I had that slight sense of trepidation as I walked down the drive to the festival site. I knew I would be made welcome but the festival is designed to be a journey for speakers and participants over a long weekend so arriving mid way through makes you feel as though you are intruding a little. No-one made me feel that way, I was just worried I w
Where To Next? Episode nineteen. Benedict Pollard and Nikki Trott
Last year I visited the Realisation Festival (imagine a Do Lectures about philosophy held at a Downton Abbey style stately home) at St Giles House where I interviewed Jonathan Rowson, Ed Haddon, Roc Sandford, Sarah Wilson, Nick Ashley - Cooper and Pippa Evans (see episodes four to six in the archive). I also attended a workshop hosted by Benedict Pollard that I recounted at the end of those episo
Where To Next? Episode eighteen. Author and activist Jay Griffiths
There are lots of things I see differently in my life because of Jay. I see her as one of the guides I have been fortunate to know a little bit in my life. Well enough to go and see and chat to, anyway. The longer I go on this journey to try and make sense of what it means to live before I die (the computer keeps autocorrecting ‘live’ to ‘love’ there, which is oddly beautiful), the weirder it beco
Where To Next? Episode seventeen. Author, Barrister and Oxford Don, Dr. Charles Foster...
Where do you start with Charles Foster? Perhaps my route to meeting him? Back at the end of last year when I went to visit Iain McGilchrist in Skye, we were discussing indigenous knowledge and what we have lost in the way we see ourselves in the modern world. At this point Iain proclaimed, ‘have you come across Charles Foster’s work?’I did have Charles’s then most recent book Being a Human back at
Where To Next? Episode sixteen - Emily Fawcett and Charlie Loram (part two) *plus* Ric Stockfis
This is a continuation of my interview with modern day hunter gatherers Emily and Charlie. In this part of the conversation we get deeper into the implications of living closer to nature. I am such a fan of their work and way of life. I hope you take as much away from the example they set as I have. This episode also features the launch of a new project I am doing with Ric Stockfis called One Room
Where To Next? Episode fifteen - Emily Fawcett and Charlie Loram (part one of two)
In early Spring this year I headed down to the edges of Dartmoor near Ashburton to meet Emily and Charlie who run The Old Way. A series of experiences that teach you not just the skills required to live entirely on the land, but also what they have learned about the way hunter gatherers would have lived in their landscape. We talk about what it really means to connect with nature. How relying on t
Where To Next? Episode fourteen - David Cleevely CBE
David Cleevely is a genuine legend. A multi exited entrepreneur, serially successful investor (I was once at an event where he was celebrated for getting a ‘one hundred X’ on an investment. As in he got one hundred times more money back than he put in), a connector and co founder of so many organisations in Cambridge it makes my head hurt but, most memorably the Cambridge Angels and the Cambridge
Where To Next? Episode thirteen. Mike and Shuna Dickson
A few weeks ago I was checking in with Mike Warwick about the show and planning when my new episodes will appear when I began telling him about the project I was working on in Salisbury (where I am trying to deploy the behaviour of entrepreneurship without the motivation of self interest). Towards the end of my explanation I told him about a quote I had recently discovered from Harry Truman I was
The Edges of the World
This is a bit of a ramble about my conversation earlier this week at Blackwells in Oxford with the wonderful author and brilliant man, Charles Foster who generously gave me a tour of Exeter College where he is a fellow. I didn’t realise until I asked him but this makes him a ‘Don’. I also interviewed Charles for Where To Next? and that episode will be coming up at some point over the summer along
Where To Next? Extra Episode - Tom Blue Wolf
This was an unexpected joy. Mike Warwick, who has taken over presenting duties on Where To Next? while I record my second series, asked if I would like to co-interview Tom Blue Wolf, a storyteller, indigenous elder and earthkeeper. Appropriately enough, Tom’s book The Great Remembering is a beautiful reminder of the wisdom that humans seem to understand intuitively in all cultures where their ance
Where to Next? Belonging in England part four
It took four episodes and an exploration of 11,000 years of the continuous habitation of these islands since the end of the last ice-age, but in this recording John Grigsby and I finally reach 430 AD and the arrival of the English. I love all the conversations I have had with John so far but there are so many wonderful things in this episode. We discuss how language may have created the separation
Where to Next? Belonging in England Part three
The hunter gatherer paradise that was Mesolithic in Britain comes to an end as two waves of farmers arrive from 4,000 BC, bringing with them a new technology and way of life. This is the sixteenth episode of my Do Lectures Radio Series Where To Next? A new episode is released every Monday. The week after each episode is aired I put it up here on my Substack to create a series archive for those who
Where to Next? Belonging in England, part two
In this episode we talk about how the ending of the last ice age may have informed mythologies our ancient ancestors used to make sense of themselves and the world as it changed around them. John explains how he can locate myths in time using the movement of stars over millennia. We also talk about how our mesolithic ancestors lived according to the lunar monthly calendar rather than an annual, so
Where to Next? Belonging in England, part one
While I’m taking a break from travelling around the country to record my interview episodes, John Grigsby and I got together to have a series of conversations about what it means to be English and to belong in the nation known as Britain. In these sessions we track when people first arrived here after the last ice age nearly twelve thousands years ago, and from when these islands have been continu
Where To Next? Episode twelve - Dr Iain McGilchrist (the full interview)
There have been moments in my life when I felt as though I had strayed from my authentic path and there have been other times when I felt certain I was on the correct one after all. This series has given me as much creative fulfilment as any other creative project I have ever embarked on and, in many ways, driving to the distant corner of the Isle of Skye to visit Iain felt like the culmination of
Where To Next? Episode eleven - re-cap
This is the second episode of the series so far where it is just me and no guest. I hope this will not come across as self indulgent, but in this episode I wanted to pull together some of the things we have learned from my guests in the series so far, and also to tee-up, as it were, next week’s episode with Iain McGilchrist. Iain is one of my intellectual heroes and rather than ask him to repeat w
Where to Next? Episode ten - Dr John Grigsby Part 2
In this, the second episode of my conversation with the astro-archeologist Dr. John Grigsby, we sit down and chat in more detail about the subjects we share an interest in. The movement of our ancestors from equatorial Africa across the world, the ‘lunarchy’ they lived in (time being based on a monthly rather than annual cycle) which tantalisingly perhaps explains why they existed in matrilineal g
Where to Next? Episode nine - Dr John Grigsby
Those who have been following my journey in this series so far will know that while researching a new book a few years ago, I set myself the challenge of finding out when we, as a species, began to separate ourselves from nature. It seems reasonably well accepted that for the vast majority of our existence as a species, homo sapiens were nomadic, lived in matrilineal clans and had no hierarchies o
Where to Next? Episode eight - Dr Sharon Blackie
At the end of the Summer 2025, I headed North to the Cumbria / North Yorkshire borders to meet Dr Sharon Blackie. I had read her wonderful book If Women Rose Rooted while on holiday and then devoured much of her substack when I got home. As you will know if you have been joining me on this series in search of meaning, one of the recurrent themes I keep encountering is the denial of the feminine. I
Where to Next? Episode Seven - Dan Kieran
This week’s episode is a bit different as there is no guest. I recorded it when I was camping in the Summer and the Observer newspaper ran an article - effectively the obituary - of Unbound, the business I co-founded and ran between 2011 and 2022. The idea of sharing this episode makes me uncomfortable for lots of reasons, but I ended up going ahead because the producers at Do Radio said it was th
Where to Next? Episode Six - Pippa Evans and Nick Ashley Cooper
This week’s episode is the final one of three recorded at the Realisation Festival that takes place in, and in the grounds of, St Giles House (pictured). I sat down with Pippa, whose voice will be familiar to anyone who listens to comedy on BBC Radio 4, to discuss her thoughts on the grief that can descend after achieving your ambitions. She also talks about her experiences co-founding the Sunday
Where to Next? Episode five - Jonathan Rowson and Ed Haddon
This is the fifth episode of my Do Radio Series Where To Next? A new episode is released every Monday. The week after each episode is aired I put it up here on my Substack to create a series archive for those who discover it in the future and want to go back to the start, and for those who want to re-listen to the wisdom of my guests that does seems to bloom on a second and third listening. That h
Where to Next? Episode Four - Roc Sandford and Sarah Wilson
This is the fourth episode of my Do Radio Series Where To Next? A new episode is released every Monday. The week after each episode is aired I put it up here on my Substack to create a series archive for those who discover it in the future and want to go back to the start, and for those who want to re-listen to the wisdom of my guests that does seems to bloom on a second and third listening. That
Where to Next? Episode three - James Hollis
This is the third episode of my Do Radio Series Where To Next? A new episode is released every Monday. The week after each episode is aired I put it up here on my Substack to create a series archive for those who discover it in the future and want to go back to the start, and for those who want to re-listen to the wisdom of my guests that does seems to bloom on a second and third listening. That h
Reflections on episode 3 of Where To Next?
My weekly video about the latest episode of my DO Radio programme. James Hollis on Carl Jung’s theory of two adulthoods. I also reveal two new guests I will be going to visit in the next month or so.This weekly video is usually for paid supporters only, but I’m sharing it to everyone today in an attempt to entice more people to upgrade into a paid subscription because the series it hotting up (exc
Where to Next? Episode two - Mark Vernon
This is the second episode of my Do Radio Series Where To Next? A new episode is released every Monday. The week after each episode is aired I put it up here on my Substack to create a series archive for those who discover it in the future and want to go back to the start, and for those who want to re-listen to the wisdom of my guests that does seems to bloom on a second and third listening. That
Reflections on episode 2 of Where To Next?
My weekly video about the latest episode of my DO Radio programme. Mark Vernon on Owen Barfield, meaning and William Blake. This weekly video is usually for paid supporters only, but I’m sharing it to everyone today in an attempt to entice more people to upgrade into a paid subscription because the series it hotting up (exclusive future guest reveal at the end of this video) … and I need to find a
Where to Next? Episode one - Martin Shaw
This is the first episode of my Do Radio Series Where To Next? A new episode is released every Monday. The week after each episode is aired I put it up here on my Substack to create a series archive for those who discover it in the future and want to go back to the start, and for those who want to re-listen to the wisdom of my guests that does seems to bloom on a second and third listening. That h
Thoughts on the Realisation Festival
Wow. My mind is still re-structuring itself in lots of ways after an amazing day at the Realisation Festival I went to so I could record more interviews for my Do Radio programme. I spoke to Roc Sandford (author, activist and one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion), Ed Haddon (coach and co-director of the festival), Jonathan Rowson (author, Grandmaster of Chess and philosopher) Sarah Wilson (
Do Radio update and books...
I’ve had a busy couple of weeks writing a comic novella (!) and editing my first three programmes for Do Radio, that I now think will be aired in September. I will let you know the TX date as soon as I do. I’ve also been reading Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination by Mark Vernon (it’s fantastically good and I would recommend both to Blake aficionados and those who are just curiou
Solvitur Ambulando
I just got back from three days walking along the South Coast Path with my wonderful wife and some of my closest friends. Then on the last day more friends and family came to spend the evening with us. It was such a rich and nourishing experience and it felt more ‘real’ than the ‘real life’ I live in most of the time. It was one of those experiences where time slowed down. It feels as though I’ve
'Where did the two-ness go?'
This week I’m heading up to London to record my third interview for the Do Radio programme I’m recording to speak to Mark Vernon. Mark is a fascinating author and speaker on all kinds of subjects as a result of his wide ranging adventures in the academic disciplines of Physics, Theology and Philosophy. He’s also got a new book coming out about William Blake that I can’t wait to read. This week’s v
The Master and His Emissary...
It feels important to flag the book that in many ways has guided my intellectual and spiritual curiosity that is pushing me forward in my project for Do Radio. The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist. In this week’s video update I give a background on this work and my understanding of it and how it is informing the way I see the world. Thanks for watching. Dan This is a public episode. If
James Hollis and the Middle Passage
This weeks video update includes behind the scenes info on how my Do Radio project is going. I also re-discovered an interview I did with James Hollis whose book introduced me to the Carl Jung’s theory of the two adulthoods. I’ve also just announced a LinkedIn Live about the book on leadership I’m writing called Lead Like a River. In the session I’ll be explaining the importance of what I call you
A strange moth...
I’ve just read ‘Burnt Rain’ by Roc Sandford - an activist and thinker who is part of Extinction Rebellion and lives on his own island off Mull in Scotland. I’ve also discovered Jonathan Rowson and Mark Vernon and the Realisation Festival they are Directors of, which looks AMAZING and I’m hoping to visit this Summer. Check it out. Much love, DanPS- Apologies to Sarah Raad (not Serena 🤦 ) for the ti
An adventure into the sacred
I’m happy to say that I am currently working on a new audio project for Do Radio, under the Do Lectures umbrella. I will be interviewing a range of people on the subject of adventure, which is a wonderfully vague remit. I’ve only done one interview so far, which will be aired in June I think, but already it has taken me on a journey I was not expecting. A journey to try and make sense of - and per
Three Men In A Float
Yesterday was the 17th anniversary of our BBC Radio 4 programme going on air. This is obviously the most random commemoration ever but there you go. Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dankieran.substack.com/subscribe
Lead Like a River
Apologies for the lack up recent updates, but I mentioned a few weeks ago I was working on a new project about leadership. Well here it is. I’ve finally managed to extract and upload the LinkedIn Live I have been working on to Substack. The video actually starts 5 minutes in - cutting the first five minutes was beyond my skills - so please jump forward to then.The point of the talk was to share so
Living in the memory of your children
On the way to school this morning I had the realisation that while I’m the lead character on my own life, I’m an important but secondary character in the lives of my children. I suddenly became conscious of how I will appear in their memories. It’s an interesting thing to consider in the real time of my life. More exploration in the video. Dan’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To recei
Thoughts on leadership...
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