Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd
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Hello! Aqua once sang "life in plastic, it's fantastic", sure... for Barbie Girl it may be but, for our natural world and ourselves, plastic is an enormous and increasingly understood problem. Catherine Conway, Founder of Unpackaged, and Julian Kirby, Campaigner at Friends of the Earth, join us to bring us hope and practical steps we can take to help put an end to all the waste and damage being done
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Comedian Rich Wilson challenges the Geoffocracy with his Richocracy full of electricity free days, big foam hands for pedestrian safety, hanging out with old people, and a novel (and very literal) way of dealing with nuisance everyday sexism
195. GO BIG #2: A Big Idea to Rethink the Economy
194. GO BIG #1: A Big Idea for Gender Equality
BONUS: ED’S WRITTEN A BOOK! (exclusive audiobook extract)
193. THE CASE FOR BIG CHANGE: and building the coalitions to make it happen
192. TICKET TO RIDE: buses, Burnham and public control
191. PRESTONOMICS: taking back control of local economies
190. THE PREMONITION: a conversation with Michael Lewis
189. IT’S COMING HOME: could fan ownership save football?
188. THE DREAM NOT JUST THE NIGHTMARE: a vision for tackling the environmental crisis
187. RETHINKING INFRASTRUCTURE: the case for social investment
186. LEARNING FROM THE WORLD’S HAPPIEST COUNTRY: Reasons to be Finnish
185. WHAT'S THE GIG IDEA?: fair work in the platform economy
184. REASONS TO BE PLAYFUL: protecting children’s right to play
183 and a half. Michael Rosen on his recovery from Covid
183. MEETING THE JOE-MENT: could the Biden presidency be transformational?
182. OFFICE POLITICS: the future of the workplace
181. PARKS AND REC: green space for all
180. A NEW BEVERIDGE REPORT: remaking the welfare state
179 and a half. OUT OF THE ORDINARY: Marc Stears on the politics of everyday life
179. GENERATION RENTIER: fixing a broken economic model
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