Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd
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Hello! The climate crisis is higher on the political agenda than ever before, with more than half of people saying it will influence how they vote in the UK general election. We’re discussing how to ensure that this is the first ‘climate election’ with Alice Bell from climate campaign Possible and Fatima Ibrahim from Green New Deal UK. Then Catherine Abreu talks us through the role of climate policy in Canada’s recent election and what the rest of the world can learn from it.
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Comedian Jen Brister joins us to sift through the more hopefully stories in another week of general election campaigning
For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy102. EMPIRE STATE OF MIND: overhauling the history we teach
101. (NET) ZERO TO HERO: tackling the climate emergency
100. LIVE AT ABBEY ROAD: fixing music education
99. WRITTEN IN THE STARS: the argument for a codified constitution
98. SMELLS LIKE COMMUNITY SPIRIT: bridging the intergenerational divide
97. TREEDISTRIBUTION: shrubtastic reasons to plant
96. TIL DEBT DO US PART: the case for personal debt write-off
Cheerful Book Club: The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
95. SCHOOL’S OUT: time for LGBT-inclusive education
94. A QUESTION OF SPORT: the fight for gender equality
93. ELECTRIC DREAMS: the end of the petrol and diesel vehicle
Cheerful Book Club: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
92. BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER: the case for social ownership
91. WHO’S AFRAID OF GDP?: shifting to a wellbeing economy
Cheerful Book Club: How to Fail by Elizabeth Day
90. THIS LAND IS OUR LAND
89. DOING RIGHT BY OLDER PEOPLE: free personal care for all
88. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (ONCE): tackling fast fashion
87. ADMISSION IMPOSSIBLE: opening up our universities
86. I FOUGHT THE LAW AND... I WON: the art of successful campaigns
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