Super Connected Conversations

Stephen Fry on Soho and Individuality

In this episode of Super Connected Conversations: The Soho Series, Tim Arnold is joined by Stephen Fry to reflect on Soho as a place of ideas, eccentricity, gender fluidity and individuality. Drawing on Fry’s lifelong engagement with literature, performance, and British cultural life, the conversation explores Soho’s historic tolerance for difference and wit — and what it means to lose spaces where intelligence, humour, and dissent could once coexist so freely.

Super Connected Conversations: The Soho Series

This special six-episode Soho series of Super Connected Conversations brings together artists, thinkers, and cultural figures in conversation with multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold, reflecting on Soho’s historic role at the heart of British and international creative life.

Recorded originally for the feature-length documentary Soho Is…, directed by Tim Arnold and Kevin Godley, these audio conversations explore Soho as a crucible for music, film, art, performance, and counterculture — and examine how gentrification, commercialisation, and modern redevelopment have reshaped its spirit.

Each episode considers Soho not merely as a location, but as a living cultural ecosystem: a place where communities formed, ideas collided, and creative risk was historically possible. The discussions address what has been gained, what has been lost, and what remains worth protecting in an era where cultural spaces are increasingly fragile.

The Soho Is… film emerged from Tim Arnold’s 2015 Save Soho campaign — a coalition of artists, residents, and cultural workers advocating for the preservation of Soho’s creative identity. While the film itself remains unreleased, these audio-only conversations offer a rare, intimate window into that ongoing dialogue.

This series forms part of Tim Arnold’s wider artistic practice as a songwriter, performer, filmmaker, and cultural commentator, and reflects his sustained engagement with the intersections of creativity, place, and community.

For more about Tim Arnold, please visit:
https://timarnold.co.uk/

For more about the Super Connected project, please visit:
http://superconnected.technology/

Intro and outro music written and performed by Tim Arnold. Taken from the album 'The Soho Hobo' © TA Music 2015-2026. 

Jools Holland on Soho and Music

Tim Arnold sits down with Jools Holland to discuss Soho’s central role in Britain’s musical and nightlife heritage. From clubs and record shops to informal late-night exchanges between artists, this conversation traces how Soho functioned as a vital location to discover new music — and examines how commercial pressures have altered the conditions that once allowed scenes, sounds and collaborations to emerge organically.

Super Connected Conversations: The Soho Series

This special six-episode Soho series of Super Connected Conversations brings together artists, thinkers, and cultural figures in conversation with multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold, reflecting on Soho’s historic role at the heart of British and international creative life.

Recorded originally for the feature-length documentary Soho Is…, directed by Tim Arnold and Kevin Godley, these audio conversations explore Soho as a crucible for music, film, art, performance, and counterculture — and examine how gentrification, commercialisation, and modern redevelopment have reshaped its spirit.

Each episode considers Soho not merely as a location, but as a living cultural ecosystem: a place where communities formed, ideas collided, and creative risk was historically possible. The discussions address what has been gained, what has been lost, and what remains worth protecting in an era where cultural spaces are increasingly fragile.

The Soho Is… film emerged from Tim Arnold’s 2015 Save Soho campaign — a coalition of artists, residents, and cultural workers advocating for the preservation of Soho’s creative identity. While the film itself remains unreleased, these audio-only conversations offer a rare, intimate window into that ongoing dialogue.

This series forms part of Tim Arnold’s wider artistic practice as a songwriter, performer, filmmaker, and cultural commentator, and reflects his sustained engagement with the intersections of creativity, place, and community.

For more about Tim Arnold, please visit:
https://timarnold.co.uk/

For more about the Super Connected project, please visit:
http://superconnected.technology/

Intro and outro music written and performed by Tim Arnold. Taken from the album 'The Soho Hobo' © TA Music 2015-2026. 

June Brown on Soho, Community and Change

In this deeply reflective conversation, Tim Arnold speaks with the late June Brown about Soho as a place of character, community, and lived experience. Brown’s perspective reaches beyond performance to consider Soho as a human environment — one shaped by ordinary lives, creative labour, and social bonds — and how those textures are eroded when neighbourhoods are stripped of their long-standing inhabitants.

Super Connected Conversations: The Soho Series

This special six-episode Soho series of Super Connected Conversations brings together artists, thinkers, and cultural figures in conversation with multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold, reflecting on Soho’s historic role at the heart of British and international creative life.

Recorded originally for the feature-length documentary Soho Is…, directed by Tim Arnold and Kevin Godley, these audio conversations explore Soho as a crucible for music, film, art, performance, and counterculture — and examine how gentrification, commercialisation, and modern redevelopment have reshaped its spirit.

Each episode considers Soho not merely as a location, but as a living cultural ecosystem: a place where communities formed, ideas collided, and creative risk was historically possible. The discussions address what has been gained, what has been lost, and what remains worth protecting in an era where cultural spaces are increasingly fragile.

The Soho Is… film emerged from Tim Arnold’s 2015 Save Soho campaign — a coalition of artists, residents, and cultural workers advocating for the preservation of Soho’s creative identity. While the film itself remains unreleased, these audio-only conversations offer a rare, intimate window into that ongoing dialogue.

This series forms part of Tim Arnold’s wider artistic practice as a songwriter, performer, filmmaker, and cultural commentator, and reflects his sustained engagement with the intersections of creativity, place, and community.

For more about Tim Arnold, please visit:
https://timarnold.co.uk/

For more about the Super Connected project, please visit:
http://superconnected.technology/

Intro and outro music written and performed by Tim Arnold. Taken from the album 'The Soho Hobo' © TA Music 2015-2026. 

Emily Capell on Soho and London's Music Heritage

Tim Arnold is joined by singer songwriter Emily Capell to explore Soho from the vantage point of a newer generation of artists navigating a rapidly changing city. The conversation considers what Soho once represented as a gateway for emerging voices, and how rising costs and diminishing grassroots venues have reshaped access, opportunity, and the very idea of a creative commons.

Super Connected Conversations: The Soho Series

This special six-episode Soho series of Super Connected Conversations brings together artists, thinkers, and cultural figures in conversation with multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold, reflecting on Soho’s historic role at the heart of British and international creative life.

Recorded originally for the feature-length documentary Soho Is…, directed by Tim Arnold and Kevin Godley, these audio conversations explore Soho as a crucible for music, film, art, performance, and counterculture — and examine how gentrification, commercialisation, and modern redevelopment have reshaped its spirit.

Each episode considers Soho not merely as a location, but as a living cultural ecosystem: a place where communities formed, ideas collided, and creative risk was historically possible. The discussions address what has been gained, what has been lost, and what remains worth protecting in an era where cultural spaces are increasingly fragile.

The Soho Is… film emerged from Tim Arnold’s 2015 Save Soho campaign — a coalition of artists, residents, and cultural workers advocating for the preservation of Soho’s creative identity. While the film itself remains unreleased, these audio-only conversations offer a rare, intimate window into that ongoing dialogue.

This series forms part of Tim Arnold’s wider artistic practice as a songwriter, performer, filmmaker, and cultural commentator, and reflects his sustained engagement with the intersections of creativity, place, and community.

For more about Tim Arnold, please visit:
https://timarnold.co.uk/

For more about the Super Connected project, please visit:
http://superconnected.technology/

Intro and outro music written and performed by Tim Arnold. Taken from the album 'The Soho Hobo' © TA Music 2015-2026. 

Kevin Godley on Soho and Creative Freedom

In this episode, Tim Arnold is in conversation with Kevin Godley, his long-time collaborator and co-director of the documentary Soho Is…. Together they reflect on Soho’s influence across decades of British music and visual culture, discussing experimentation, independence, and the conditions that once made sustained artistic risk not only possible, but normal.

Super Connected Conversations: The Soho Series

This special six-episode Soho series of Super Connected Conversations brings together artists, thinkers, and cultural figures in conversation with multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold, reflecting on Soho’s historic role at the heart of British and international creative life.

Recorded originally for the feature-length documentary Soho Is…, directed by Tim Arnold and Kevin Godley, these audio conversations explore Soho as a crucible for music, film, art, performance, and counterculture — and examine how gentrification, commercialisation, and modern redevelopment have reshaped its spirit.

Each episode considers Soho not merely as a location, but as a living cultural ecosystem: a place where communities formed, ideas collided, and creative risk was historically possible. The discussions address what has been gained, what has been lost, and what remains worth protecting in an era where cultural spaces are increasingly fragile.

The Soho Is… film emerged from Tim Arnold’s 2015 Save Soho campaign — a coalition of artists, residents, and cultural workers advocating for the preservation of Soho’s creative identity. While the film itself remains unreleased, these audio-only conversations offer a rare, intimate window into that ongoing dialogue.

This series forms part of Tim Arnold’s wider artistic practice as a songwriter, performer, filmmaker, and cultural commentator, and reflects his sustained engagement with the intersections of creativity, place, and community.

For more about Tim Arnold, please visit:
https://timarnold.co.uk/

For more about the Super Connected project, please visit:
http://superconnected.technology/

Intro and outro music written and performed by Tim Arnold. Taken from the album 'The Soho Hobo' © TA Music 2015-2026. 

Marc Almond on Outsiders and Soho Shelter

Tim Arnold speaks with Marc Almond about Soho’s role as a sanctuary for outsiders and subcultures. The conversation explores identity, sexuality, and performance, and how Soho historically provided space for expression that existed outside the mainstream — as well as what is at stake when those spaces are sanitised or erased in the name of progress.

Super Connected Conversations: The Soho Series

This special six-episode Soho series of Super Connected Conversations brings together artists, thinkers, and cultural figures in conversation with multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold, reflecting on Soho’s historic role at the heart of British and international creative life.

Recorded originally for the feature-length documentary Soho Is…, directed by Tim Arnold and Kevin Godley, these audio conversations explore Soho as a crucible for music, film, art, performance, and counterculture — and examine how gentrification, commercialisation, and modern redevelopment have reshaped its spirit.

Each episode considers Soho not merely as a location, but as a living cultural ecosystem: a place where communities formed, ideas collided, and creative risk was historically possible. The discussions address what has been gained, what has been lost, and what remains worth protecting in an era where cultural spaces are increasingly fragile.

The Soho Is… film emerged from Tim Arnold’s 2015 Save Soho campaign — a coalition of artists, residents, and cultural workers advocating for the preservation of Soho’s creative identity. While the film itself remains unreleased, these audio-only conversations offer a rare, intimate window into that ongoing dialogue.

This series forms part of Tim Arnold’s wider artistic practice as a songwriter, performer, filmmaker, and cultural commentator, and reflects his sustained engagement with the intersections of creativity, place, and community.

For more about Tim Arnold, please visit:
https://timarnold.co.uk/

For more about the Super Connected project, please visit:
http://superconnected.technology/

Intro and outro music written and performed by Tim Arnold. Taken from the album 'The Soho Hobo' © TA Music 2015-2026. 

Gen Z Going Light: Rose Pepper’s Story

We are only just beginning to understand the impact social media and smart devices are having on the mental and emotional well-being of teenagers around the world. In this episode of Super Connected Conversations, multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold talks to Rose Pepper: a secondary school student in the United Kingdom with a rare talent for curiosity and a natural gift for analysis.

 

Rose shares her personal experience of trialling the Light Phone — a minimalist phone designed to encourage intentional technology use — and how living without a smartphone for a month changed her perspective on digital life.

Tim and Rose also explore what it’s like to grow up Gen Z in a world dominated by screens, and how new generations might reclaim real-world connection. Their conversation ties into the themes explored in Super Connected™: a groundbreaking album, film and live multimedia show about the impact of technology on family, childhood and community.

If you're listening on Spotify or Apple, add the Super Connected™ album to your library now to hear how this project began with music and lyrics:

 

Super Connected on Spotify
Super Connected on Apple Music

 

For more information about Super Connected™, including upcoming live performances, screenings, and how to experience the album and film, please visit:

Super Connected Official

If you’d like to explore the Light Phone, you can find out more here: Light Phone

 

Created entirely without sponsorship, this podcast is independently produced by Tim Arnold. If you’d like to support his work, you can do so via Patreon.

 

© The Tim Arnold Company 2025

Health Professionals For Safer Screens with Sandy Chapell

Multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold in conversation with Sandy Chappell, a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist with over 30 years of experience. Sandy specialises in working with pre-school and primary school children who have speech and language disorders. She is the founder of Chatterbox Speech and Language Therapy in North Yorkshire and a passionate advocate for screen-free activities that promote early speech and language development. Sandy is also a member of the Health Professionals for Safer Screens campaign group.

 

For more information on Sandy Chappell, please visit: http://www.chatterbox-slt.co.uk/

 

Health

For more information on Health Professionals for Safer Screens, please visit: https://healthprofessionalsforsaferscreens.org/

 

Arts

If you support a more mindful approach to screen use, join our community and learn more about the film, album, and theatre show of Super Connected: http://superconnected.technology/

 

This podcast is independently produced and not sponsored. If you appreciate the content created by The Tim Arnold Company, consider supporting on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/timarnoldmusic

Health Professionals For Safer Screens with Dr Becky Foljambe

Multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold in conversation with Dr. Becky Foljambe, an NHS GP, passionate campaigner for safer screens and founder of Health Professionals for Safer Screens. In this episode, they discuss Becky’s work in advocating for the removal of smartphones from schools and her growing concerns about the increasing intrusion of technology in childhood, particularly in vulnerable communities. She highlights the deepening inequality that tech is driving in society and shares insights from her extensive experience in general practice and education.

 

Health

For more information on Health Professionals for Safer Screens, please visit: https://healthprofessionalsforsaferscreens.org/

 

Arts

If you support a more mindful approach to screen use, join our community and learn more about the film, album, and theatre show of Super Connected: http://superconnected.technology/

 

This podcast is independently produced and not sponsored. If you appreciate the content created by The Tim Arnold Company, consider supporting on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/timarnoldmusic

 

©The Tim Arnold Company/Super Connected 2024

Health Professionals For Safer Screens with Dr Sanjiv Nichani OBE

Multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold in conversation with Dr. Sanjiv Nichani OBE, a Senior Consultant Paediatrician at Leicester Children’s Hospital and founder of Healing Little Hearts.  In this episode, they discuss Dr. Nichani’s work in paediatric care and his campaign to raise awareness about the ‘Screen Demic’, which he coined to describe the epidemic of mental health illnesses and developmental difficulties in children due to excessive screen time and social media usage.

 

Health

For more information on Health Professionals for Safer Screens, please visit: https://healthprofessionalsforsaferscreens.org/

 

Arts

If you support a more mindful approach to screen use, join our community and learn more about the film, album, and theatre show of Super Connected: http://superconnected.technology/

 

This podcast is independently produced and not sponsored. If you appreciate the content created by The Tim Arnold Company, consider supporting on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/timarnoldmusic

 

©The Tim Arnold Company/Super Connected 2024

The Light Phone with Kaiwei Tang

Multi-disciplinary artist Tim Arnold in conversation with Kaiwei Tang, co-founder of minimalist phone company The Light Phone. Together, they discuss how Light Phone help users disconnect from digital distractions, encouraging a return to more intentional and fulfilling daily experiences. Recorded live on August 2nd, 2024.

Kaiwei Tang is a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of The Light Phone, along with Joe Hollier. Their company is dedicated to creating minimalist phones designed to promote a healthier relationship with technology. Kaiwei’s product design and development background with a focus on human centered design, paired with Joe’s background in art, design and film making, drives their mission to encourage users to disconnect from the digital world and reconnect with the physical one.

Read Tim's 'Light Phone Step by Step Guide'

Go Light here

For more information on The Light Phone, please visit The Light Phone

This podcast is independently produced and not sponsored. If you appreciate the content created by Tim and Super Connected Conversations, consider supporting on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/timarnoldmusic

Join our community and learn more about the world of Super Connected through the album, film, and theatre show at http://superconnected.technology/

©TA Music/Super Connected 2024

Deep Listening with Kate Alderton

Multimedia artist Tim Arnold in conversation with Kate Alderton - actress, theatre maker, dream practitioner and communications skills facilitator. Together, they talk about learning to be 'phone free' and making performance venues into sacred spaces again with their Screenless Socials. Recorded live on April 15th, 2024.

Kate Alderton is a multifaceted artist, dream practitioner, theatre maker and advanced communications skills facilitator. With a background in the arts, training at LAMDA, her passion extends beyond stage and screen, as she actively seeks to reignite the ancient tradition of communal dreaming. Kate is founder of The Dreamfishing Society.

For social and community dreaming events and to explore the potential of collective dreaming, please visit: https://dreamfishingsociety.com/

This video is independently produced and not sponsored. If you appreciate the content created by Tim and Super Connected Conversations, consider supporting on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/timarnoldmusic

Join our community and learn more about the world of Super Connected through the album, film, and theatre show at http://superconnected.technology/

 

©TA Music/Super Connected 2024