Episodes
Turning the attention onto we who seek attention
In this episode, James & Claire - who host the show - talk about... the show. We have not, promise, completely vaulted over our own collective shark. Instead we are looking at the barriers to entering the creative attention e...
How the NFL decided to ignore sports and start entertaining
In this episode of the Can We Have Your Attention? podcast , hosts Claire Coady and James Wickham get overexcited about the upcoming Super Bowl between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. We speak to veteran sp...
Strongmen, Algorithms, Stans and Kendrick Lamar: How the War for Atte…
Has President Trump’s foreign policy become the ultimate celebrity beef? Claire and James unpack how Trump uses international relations to flex his strongman image. They explore the collision of geopolitics and Stan culture, ...
Can X’s rage baiting strategy survive? X, Grok AI, algorithms, and th…
In this episode of the Can We Have Your Attention? podcast , hosts Claire Coady and James Wickham dive into the escalating crisis around algorithms , free speech , and corporate responsibility in the attention economy . We ex...
How to make friends and influence yourself: lessons from prison on fi…
In this episode, James & Claire are joined by Dr Katherine Albertson, a senior lecturer in Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University. Following on from our previous episode on radicalisation, we look at what happens to those...
A Christmas Special: What's grabbed our attention in 2025
In this special episode of Can We Have Your Attention? for Christmas, James & Claire talk about the things that have taken their attention in 2025 - from books to films, games to music. All links available via the website: ca...
The Branding of Fear: How ISIS & The Far-Right Market to Men (ft. Dr …
A recent surge in ISIS activity has reminded the world that Islamist extremism remains a potent and active threat. For many, the recent attack by ISIS felt like a shock - a ghost returning from the past. But as we discuss in ...
Episode 5: Why am I so *&^%ing TIRED all the time?
This week Claire & James explore uncertainty with Katherine Templar-Lewis, an expert in neuroscience and the science of uncertainty. Katherine has done brilliant work on how to build resilience through increasing our toleranc...
Episode 4: ADHD and attention
Episode 4 of the Attention Economy podcast, Can We Have Your Attention? hosted by Claire Coady, the founder of The Attention Practice, and journalist & broadcaster James Wickham. This episode is about ADHD. Claire and our gue...
Episode 3: Teenagers, Social Media & The Axe Effect
Claire Coady, the Founder of the Attention Practice, and journalist and broadcaster James Wickham discuss how teenagers are coping with the social media age, and the affect it’s having on their attention spans. Included are r...
Episode 2: Everything, everywhere, all at once.
In this episode the founder of the Attention Practice, Claire Coady, and broadcaster & journalist James Wickham consider who is selling your attention, who's buying it - and why. We also cover the important topics of haberdas...
"Don't worry Sweetie, you're just having a breakdown...."
Claire Coady and James Wickham explore the concept of attention, its significance in the modern world, and the challenges posed by the attention economy. They discuss how information overload affects decision-making, societal...
Welcome to Can We Have Your Attention: The Attention Economy podcast
In this trailer for the upcoming series, Claire Coady, Founder of The Attention Practice ( https://www.theattentionpractice.com/ ) and broadcaster & journalist James Wickham ( https://phonogram.co.uk/ ) introduce the podcast ...