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Wake Up To Money

Boardroom Stories: Sir Ian Livingston

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1775 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sir Ian Livingstone talks to Rahul Tandon about founding Games Workshop and the popularity of Dungeons and Dragons. He reveals his collection of hundreds of board games as well as discussing the development of Tomb Raider.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Traitors is back and so is that mysterious cloaked figure with the familiar fringe.

0:06.7

Yeah, it's me.

0:07.9

And when you've watched Claudia in the castle, join me, Ed Gamble, for the official visualised companion podcast.

0:13.7

And remember, I'll be listening.

0:15.9

Okay?

0:16.7

No, seriously, I love it.

0:18.5

What a faithful.

0:19.7

We'll unpack betrayals and spill scandalous secrets with celeb guests, traitors' legends, and murdered and banished players.

0:27.1

The Traitors Uncloaked.

0:28.4

Watch on EyePlayer, listen for more on BBC Sounds.

0:32.1

Wake Up to Money, Borgroom Stories.

0:36.1

Hello and welcome to a very special edition of Wake Up to Money with me,

0:40.7

Rahul Tandon.

0:41.8

And we've got a very special guest for you today, Sir Ian Livingston, who's a man of many

0:47.3

different talents.

0:48.7

He's an author, he's also one of the UK's most successful entrepreneurs.

0:53.2

He is one of the leading figures in the global games industry.

0:57.4

Games Workshop, Warhammer, Lara Croft, he's been an important part in all of those.

1:03.7

He is somebody who has a lot to say. And I caught up with him by a Zoom. There was an interesting

1:08.8

character in the background.

1:10.9

More on that a little bit later.

1:12.8

And I started by asking him if he'd always been interested in playing games.

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