Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd
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Hello! Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, Oh I do....BUT, 11 million people live in coastal communities across the UK but for too long they’ve been getting a bad deal. This week we’re exploring the New Economic Foundation’s plans for a major coastal industrial strategy: the ‘Blue New Deal’. We’re joined by Fernanda Balata from the NEF to explain the proposals. Then Nick Taylor from Scarborough and Sam Scriven from the Jurassic Coast talk about how investing in coastal economies and the natural environment can work in practice.
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Comedian and impressionist Jess Robinson brings us new rules for the Geoffocracy, all difficult topics are now sung, no more automated called, no more dill, no more seeds in raspberries, no more confusion about how many kisses during greetings
Loss, love and a calling to nature: Ben Goldsmith
The hidden story of Chinese food: Fuchsia Dunlop
How to fix the broken food system: Henry Dimbleby
What about men?: Caitlin Moran
How to end our very British culture war: Sunder Katwala
Throwing shade: why you’ll never take trees for granted again
Fields of Dreams: how music festivals moved from the margins to the mainstream
Never stopped us dreaming: the rise of women’s football
Driven to distraction: can we resist the attention economy?
Freewheeling: how to embrace the bicycle boom
Will there be a Hollywood ending? why the writers are on strike
The People's Plan for Nature: how re-imagining our democracy could save nature
Live at the RSC Part 2: the return of the Doctor
Live at the RSC Part 1: the fight for better climate education in our schools
Business as (un)usual: can people and planet really come before profit?
Reasons to be Letchworth: what can we learn from the garden city movement?
But what can I do?: a conversation with Alastair Campbell
Thank you, next: breaking up with the job for life
How to build a fairer society: does this 20th century philosopher have the answer?
A basic income for the arts: how Ireland is changing the game
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