Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd
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Hello! This week we're talking Social Enterprise, the companies whose primary reason for existing is not profit but social or environmental purpose. Karen Lynch, CEO of Belu (formerly of Barclays) and Peter Holbrook, CEO of Social Enterprise UK, join us to tell us why social enterprise works for business and society and how we can have more of them in the Geoffocracy.
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Comedian and Author Jo Burke advocates for smiley passports, fancy dress, and enforced speakerphone for anyone choosing to make calls on public transport
I QUIT? - The real story behind the ‘Great Resignation’
CRY ME A RIVER: How to save the UK’s rivers
BACK IN THE FRONT ROW: Cinema bounces back and Fiona Shaw talks Killing Eve spinoffs
HERE COMES THE SUN: storing clean energy
DAVID RUNCIMAN: TALKING ‘TALKING POLITICS’, POLITICS
ACT NOW: Recognising British Sign Language in the UK
WARM HOMES FOR ALL: Tackling Britain's fuel poverty crisis
ANXIETY AND AGENCY: How to respond to eco-anxiety in the face of climate change
MAGISTRATES: the volunteers presiding over criminal courts
MAGIC ROUNDABOUT: why we need the circular economy
JON RONSON :The author, journalist and documentary maker talks to Ed and Geoff about his new series ‘Things Fell Apart’
DOT THE “I”S AND CROSS THE NFTs: the Wild West of crypto or an opportunity for change
BACK TO NATURE: tackling the biodiversity and climate crises
JACK FOR GOOD: Rewriting the script on disability with Jack Thorne
THE REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL 2021 TOP TEN
WE WISH YOU A-M-A* XMAS 2021 (*Ask Me Anything with Ed and Geoff)
FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU: Part Four - The fight for a minimum wage
FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU: Part Three - The Fight For Race Equality in the UK
FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU: Part Two - Building Nordic gender equality
FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU: part one—- the creation of the NHS
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