Roundabout: Creative Chaos
For the curious, the creative, and the slightly obsessed.
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DUST OFF YOUR EARBUDS
CREATIVE CHAOS RISES FROM THE GRAVE
Season 13 is here. We’re back with new guests, new episodes, and the same love for creativity, technology, science, and — obviously — zombies.
The chaos is already underway.
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A podcast about creativity, technology, and the people who make things. Each episode features conversations with scientists, game designers, software developers, authors, artists, and other creative professionals about their work, the decisions behind it, and the problems they solve.
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Venkat Subramaniam: Programming, Teaching & Never Stop Learning
Venkat Subramaniam discusses his path into software development, learning through teaching, writing technical books, agile development, and how AI is changing the way programmers build software.
Venkat Subramaniam
Tammy Coron
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Adam Tow: Software Development, Caregiving & Building for Change
Adam Tow discusses decades of software development, building apps to solve real problems, caregiving, C1B, and how AI is changing the way programmers work.
Adam Tow
Tammy Coron
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Bob Wegner: Music, Max Webster, and the Stories Behind the Songs
Musician and historian Bob Wegner explores Max Webster, Canadian rock, archival research, and the seven-year journey behind his book Max Webster: High Class.
Bob Wegner
Tammy Coron
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Aaron Blaise
Aaron spent 21 years at Walt Disney Feature Animation, working as an animator or supervising animator on Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, and Mulan. He co-directed Brother Bear, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature. He now runs Creature Art Teacher, bringing professional animation training online to a global audience.
Stephen Silver
Stephen is the lead character designer behind Kim Possible, Danny Phantom, and Clerks: The Animated Series, and has worked with Disney, Warner Bros., Nickelodeon, Sony, DreamWorks, and more. A former Disney Television Animation recruiter, he founded the Silver Drawing Academy and has written over a dozen books on character design and illustration.
Susan Bennett
Susan is the original North American voice of Siri — a distinction confirmed by audio forensics experts and later acknowledged by Apple. A voice-over artist and singer with a career stretching back to the 1970s, she recorded the Siri voice over a month in 2005 without knowing how it would be used, and revealed herself publicly in 2013.
Melissa Hutchison
Melissa is the voice of Clementine in Telltale’s The Walking Dead series — one of the most celebrated performances in video game history. She won Best Performance by a Female at the 2013 Spike Video Game Awards and received two BAFTA nominations for Best Performer. Her credits also include League of Legends, Fire Emblem, and Yo-Kai Watch.
American McGee
American began his career at id Software, designing levels for Doom II, Quake, and Quake II, before creating American McGee’s Alice at EA — a dark reimagining of Lewis Carroll that sold over 1.5 million copies and spawned the sequel Alice: Madness Returns. The episode covers his work at Spicy Horse, his Shanghai-based studio, and the Alice: Otherlands film project.
Dame Stephanie Shirley
Dame Stephanie arrived in Britain in 1939 as a five-year-old Kindertransport refugee. In 1962, with £6 in capital, she founded Freelance Programmers — an all-female, work-from-home software company that grew to nearly $3 billion in value, making 70 of her staff millionaires. Appointed a Companion of Honour in 2017, she gave away the majority of her fortune to autism research and IT causes before her death in 2025.
