Since early 2010, we’ve been putting on salon events at The Book Club in London, where our inquisitive audience can discover the ideas and trends that are reshaping our lives, with a panel of special guests to help illuminate them. We’ve explored everything from the content piracy revolution to the peak oil phenomenon, immersive storytelling to the use of neuroscience in the advertising world, but inevitably the discussion around these fascinating topics gets cuts short by the time constraints of the evening.

Hence the creation of our podcast series, where each episode looks back in depth at one of our previous events, and teases out areas of discussion we may have missed or delved into too lightly. We’ve started with Total Filmmaking, where we looked at how cheap equipment and digital distribution was rewriting the rules of the film industry, and allowing filmmakers unprecedented creative and financial control.

We listen back to excerpts from the panel debate, where budget filmmaker Marc Price and digital consultant Liz Rosenthal explained everything from crowdfunding to recording Guy Fawkes’ night for sound effects; podcast host Jack Roberts joins FH stalwarts Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Oliver Beatty, as well as freelance contributor to Wired magazine Jennifer Allan, to discuss digitally-enfranchised filmmaking further. Listen to it below:

We’ll be posting a new podcast up every fortnight for the rest of 2011, and then every month thereafter – expect exclusive new special guest appearances from the UK’s most innovative entrepreneurs and thinkers in each episode, as well as a chance to hear debates you may have missed. To stay up to date, subscribe to our feed on our Soundcloud page, or check us out in the iTunes Store. We really hope you enjoy it!