Jazz Shapers

About Jazz Shapers

Jazz Shapers features interviews with founders - business shapers – who, like the shapers of jazz, soul and blues have defied convention, broken the mould and gone on to achieve great success. In each episode host Elliot Moss persuades a business pioneer to reveal their motivations, their character and how they deal with challenges and opportunities. A Jazz FM production.

Publisher

Bauer Media

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Dec 2013

Latest episode

10 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 522 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   10 Oct 2026

   Sam McKnight: Influential hairstylist and founder of Hair by Sam McKnight

   Sam McKnight MBE is the influential hairstylist and founder of his own brand of products, Hair by Sam McKnight. Sam joins Elliot to share his tales from growing up in a Scottish mining community to crafting iconic hairstyles for Princess Diana, Kate Moss and Lady Gaga in an industry transformed by the supermodel phenomenon.

2. 

   3 Oct 2026

   David Forbes-Nixon OBE: Founder and Chairman of the DFN Charitable Foundation and DFN Project SEARCH

   David Forbes-Nixon OBE is the Founder and Chairman of the DFN Charitable Foundation and DFN Project SEARCH, born from his vision to transform the life outcomes of disabled people in the UK and build a more inclusive society. David joins Elliot to talk about how only 4.8% of UK adults with learning disabilities are in jobs, and what he - and the leading businesses he's working with - are doing to change that.

3. 

   26 Sept 2026

   Ben Drury: Founder and CEO of Yoto

   Ben Drury is the founder and CEO of Yoto, a screen- free audio platform for children. Ben joins Elliot to share how the scientific impact of screens on children (and the benefits of listening to audio) led him to build both an audio player that put kids in control, and a community of creators.

Inside a recent episode

David Jones - Jazz Shapers with Mishcon de Reya

Published 4 Jul 2015 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I remember taking part when I was 10 years old in Benjamin Britain's Noise Flood and I played Mr. Ape and I just thought, this is fantastic. I love this sense of actually being able to take part in music and I was singing and I was doing all sorts of things like that. But I could never kind of figure the idea that it was possible to actually own a living in music. You know, I've kind of looked at other places to work. I thought about going into social work. But I was always going to gigs. That was the thing that kind of pulled me. So it was something that I enjoyed and I enjoyed and then finally there was no way of kind of resisting it. […]

Who has been a guest on Jazz Shapers

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Joe McDonald
• David Abrahamovitch
• Flavilla Fongang
• Elizabeth Rossiello
• Ed Currie

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

2,590,431

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

71

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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