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With a worldwide following the podcast invites extraordinary leaders to pack their bags and get set for Lunar life.
Ed plus Wigtown-based best-selling author and movie-maker Jessica Fox will be interviewing three guests. Wigtown-based composer and musician Ben Please
will be hosting, live producing and providing superb sound effects.
The festival’s astronauts will be:
- Yvette Hopkins:
Chair of Court at Glasgow Caledonian University, a commercial board chair, charity board director, commercial executive, and former senior military officer, Yvette has huge experience leading teams and large complex organisations in multiple environments, domains, and sectors. - Steve Greenland:
MD of Glasgow-based space engineering company Craft Prospect Ltd which specialises in small satellite missions. - Felicity Spector: A veteran broadcaster and journalist, Felicity has crossed Ukraine to learn how ordinary citizens manage to survive under siege. How do they cope with the everyday tasks of sourcing food and cooking in the face of war and loss? In addition to being a podcast guest, she has her own festival event discussing her book Bread and War.
Storyteller for NASA
Jessica, who used to work as a storyteller for NASA, said: “Ed and I both really care about stories, and the way they can change people. And we both love movies.
“MoonSnacks is a way for us to get to meet some truly extraordinary people, leaders of orgnisations or leaders in a particular field, and find out about what makes them tick.
“It’s fun, often funny and always very revealing. When you ask people what movies they would take on a one-way trip to the Moon – not the best films of all time but their favourites, ones they could watch over and over again – you end up with fascinating conversations, insights and surprises.”
Jessica’s own movie choices would be Ghostbusters, Anne of Green Gables (1980s version) and the Marx brothers film Animal Crackers. And she would want a limitless supply of dark chocolate.
Ed spent 33 years at NASA, ultimately serving as the agency’s Chief Knowledge Officer. Following the Columbia disaster, he helped strengthen NASA’s approach to learning, knowledge-sharing, leadership and project performance.
