Independent Thinking Podcast - Exploring a new era for retailers
Listen to the latest episode where the host, Alexandra Forrest, welcomes the podcast back to the first episode in Season 5, and reminisces about teenage days spent lolling around your town centre and the role your high street played in your childhood growing up.
If you've spotted a ghost sign on the side of a building and pondered "what's that?" - then you're going to love this episode. But that's not to say this episode is all about looking back, as the episode with Ellen, Head of Creative Programmes and Campaigns for Historic England, proves.
Far from it.
Because whilst it's important to preserve and honour the past, we also need to consider how we learn from it, and how it can inform our future. Historic England are doing just that as part of their High Street Cultural Programme - which celebrates the wealth of stories and tales that our are embedded in our high streets. Ellen talks about how they’re working closely with communities, artists, photographers, poets, musicians, writers and others to take a snapshot of high streets now, celebrate and uncover stories of the past, and help us reimagine where we could be going next.