MySpace a place for friends

We've recorded a wonderful conversation with Jean Francois Clervoy the French astronaut... Listen to some clips on myspace...

We're preparing for our fourth expedition to Latitude Festival, this time with a series of brand new conversations on the theme of Friendship...

2+2=5, our series of podcasts on the 10 key skills of Dialogue is out there...

Our series of edits on Pain with a polar explorer, a dominatrix and doctors and many others has had rave reviews and is being listened to all over the world...

And there is a lot more besides.

In terms of themes, we're continuing to record, edit and share conversations on Pain but we have settled on our new big theme...

Friendship.

What does it mean? Really? And why are honest, candid, courageous conversations about it so rare? If you want to get involved with our exploration of this extraordinary subject, get in touch. We're looking for friends who are prepared to talk together - think together - about their friendship and to allow what might be a very private conversation to be made public.

(We'll be making these conversations public exclusively at Latitude '09, so book now for the best festival out there...)

Karl is bringing his flavour of dialogue back into the theatre again this year, co-directing Tim Crouch's new play The Author at The Royal Court this Autumn with his long term colleague A Smith, and finally the hugely successful England is coming to London with a six week run at the Whitechapel Gallery, starting on May 9th so book your tickets now!

And then... there's a series of Dialogues with Muslim communities around the UK on why and how young men who are born and bred in Britain, become radical enough in their religious beliefs to see no better form of expression of Islam than violence and terror.

For anyone new to us and wondering what it is we really do...

Essentially we find ordinary (and extraordinary) people to have conversations with. We then take those conversations and edit them. We combine them. We set them to music. And most importantly, we share them.

But they're not the kinds of conversation you hear very often. They're intimate, open, honest conversations. They're subjects like Pain, Fear, Joy or Loneliness. And the people having the conversations are unusual too - they're people with first hand experience of these subjects: you might hear a priest talking to someone who self-harms, a philosopher talking to someone who's been the victim of a fire-bomb attack, a midwife talking to a therapist. So it's not an interview, or a debate... it's a dialogue: where 2 + 2 makes 5.

So feel free to have a listen. And let us know what you think.