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00:57:59

28: What the hell is a gut feeling, anyway?

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2024/08/27

Moya is on the brink of change – but can she trust her gut on the biggest decision of her adult life? Plus, advice for a listener confused about their lifelong lack of sex. You've only got a few weeks to grab your ticket for our live show at the London Podcast Festival on 15th September, with a very special guest... available from kingsplace.co.uk. Email your missed connections and dilemmas to ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley.

01:56:19

ACFM Trip 45: Holidays

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2024/08/25

Everybody hates a tourist, as Jarvis Cocker once pointed out, and the ACFM gang are no exception in this ACFM Trip exploring the allure of holidays. Keir, Jem and Nadia consider all the different ways we avoid work, from holy days and vay-cays to grand tours and gap yahs. Does travel make fools of us all, or is there a smarter, more ethical way to go sightseeing? Is the promise of an annual getaway the only thing keeping the working population docile? Featuring ideas from John Urry, David Harvey

01:34:19

Novara FM: Clean Energy Is Already Terraforming the...

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2024/08/22

In 2019, mines expelled 100 billion tonnes of solid waste. Vast and destructive almost beyond imagination, mining is nevertheless essential to the green transition: without the minerals that we pull from the earth, we cannot wean ourselves off fossil fuels. Thea Riofrancos is associate professor of political science at Providence College and an expert on the politics of resource extraction, green energy transition, the global lithium sector and the Latin American left. She tells Eleanor Penny

01:04:24

27: I’m in big trouble! Your dilemmas answered

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2024/08/19

Ash and Moya dedicate the whole show to answering your dilemmas! Featuring a woman questioning her age-gap relationship, an infuriating parent who won’t budge on politics, a ghosted lover plotting her revenge, a loner who wants to start socialising, and a low-earner who resents her rich friends.There's still a few weeks to grab your ticket for our live show at the London Podcast Festival on 15th September, with a very special guest... available from kingsplace.co.uk. Email your missed connections

00:57:29

Novara FM: Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley w/...

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2024/08/15

People walk around San Francisco in Make America Great Again hats. Major CEOs endorse Trump. JD Vance is a hit among the crypto whales. So what? It's part, perhaps, of a cultural change in Silicon Valley: a swing decisively to the right in a state famed for its contributions to radical politics, from the Black Panthers to the counterculture. There's no one better to understand this change than Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. He explains

01:11:45

26: I’m so sorry, I’m English

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2024/08/13

Moya has a big theory for Ash – but the script goes out the window when they start talking about the far-right violence engulfing the UK and unpacking their own emotional reactions to English racism. After that: playing matchmaker with the first batch of Missed Connections. Content note: This episode includes discussion of racist language and violence. Remember, we'll be at the London Podcast Festival on 15th September with a very special guest. Grab your tickets now from Kings Place Email your

01:11:12

Downstream: Can The Green Party Keep Winning? w/...

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2024/08/05

The Green Party of England and Wales now has four MPs in Parliament, and even more impressively has doubled its vote share to 7%, coming second in 39 other seats. So what happens now? How will the Greens exercise their new agency in government, and how can they navigate a biased media landscape and increase their influence?Aaron is joined by Carla Denyer, co-leader of the Green Party and MP for Bristol Central, to talk about the challenges ahead. Help us build people-powered media:

01:21:49

ACFM Trip 44: Humility

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2024/08/04

With the general election leaving plenty of Labour voters feeling sidelined, the ACFM crew explore the role of humility – and humiliation – in politics.Should we cultivate humility to cope with political weakness? Is fear of humiliation a product of patriarchy? Can humility help us be better political thinkers and organisers? And who's the humblest ACFM host of them all? Nadia, Keir and Jem apply their weird-left lens to the topic with ideas from Nietzsche and Lyotard, and music from Erik Satie,

01:10:04

24: Help! What's my purpose in life?

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2024/07/30

Moya and Ash butt heads over the lure of individualism and finding their purpose in life. Plus: Moya enters her busy-body era with a new segment, Missed Connections. Tell us about the brief encounters you just can’t shake, and we will hunt them down and make them bae.Email us your missed connections with as much detail as you can recall, and send those – and your dilemmas – to ifispeak@novaramedia.com Come and see If I Speak live at the London Podcast Festival on 15 September! Tickets available

01:18:40

Novara FM: Britain's Radical Right Are On the March

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2024/07/26

The demise of the Tories isn't the end of the road for the British right. Quite the reverse: there are many whose extreme right-wing beliefs have been kept on the margins by the existence of the Conservative party. But now, with the Tories licking their wounds, they're looking to fill the vacuum.To discuss what's next for Britain's radical right, Richard Hames is joined by Stewart Maclean from Red Flare, an antifascist research collective, and John Merrick, an editor at Verso Books, whose recent

01:05:20

23: Surviving your Saturn return

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2024/07/23

Moya and Ash debate the power of astrology and explain how they survived their ‘Saturn return’ era. Plus: Ash's best anti-procrastination techniques. Come and see If I Speak live at the London Podcast Festival on 15 September! Tickets available from Kings Place now. Got a problem? Tell us: ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley.

00:59:44

Pro Revolution Soccer 2.6: The Misfits Who Invented...

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2024/07/16

It's part of the national myth: the English invented football and to England it will return (next time!).But if football is part of what makes England England, it's equally part of how Europe became Europe. In this Pro Revolution Soccer season finale, Tom Williams and Juliet Jacques tell this story of oddballs, war, oligarchs, dodgy deals and footballing genius. Along the way, they discuss how football relates to what is 'pragmatic' in politics, why Gareth Southgate is a bit like a good David

01:21:55

22: How will I know if I really want kids?

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2024/07/16

Ash and Moya are joined by podcast entrepreneur and single mum Renay Richardson to talk about the realities of solo parenting, from being blocked from adopting to the shortage of Black sperm donors. Plus: a harrowing faux pas. Come and see If I Speak live at the London Podcast Festival on 15 September! Tickets available from KingsPlace.co.uk Got a problem? Tell us: ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley.

00:51:20

Downstream: Party Politics is Broken w/ Jeremy Corbyn

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2024/07/15

Jeremy Corbyn was a Labour MP for almost four decades – and led the party at two general elections. This year however, and despite still being a party member, Corbyn was blocked from standing again in his seat of Islington North. As soon as Rishi Sunak declared a snap general election, and the Labour leadership chose a different candidate, Corbyn announced he would stand as an independent. He was consequently expelled as a party member. Defying all the odds Corbyn managed to keep his seat, winning

01:11:26

Novara FM: Macron's Own Goal w/ Olly Haynes

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2024/07/11

The French left have played a blinder. Or, at least, the centre-right chaos agent and French President Emmanuel Macron has played it for them.Macron called snap elections, hoping to crush both the left and right. He failed. Instead, the far right briefly surged, coming top in the first round before a newly cohesive French left took the largest share in the second, decisive round. Is this the end of the Fifth Republic? Olly Haynes tells Richard Hames about the long crises of French politics, the

00:47:23

Pro Revolution Soccer: Can Football Be Part of...

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2024/07/10

Tom and Juliet expose the surprisingly rich history of football as a wing of political resistance, from Algeria to Palestine to the growing power of the grassroots game in Britain.They also process England's shock win against Switzerland, TV pundits' criticism of Southgate, and the silence around Cristiano Ronaldo. Music by Matt Huxley. Help us build people-powered media: http://novara.media/support

01:00:50

ACFM Microdose: Election '24 Vibecheck

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2024/07/09

The ACFM crew offer their first reactions to Labour's landslide election win. Can Starmer's government rescue the public sector? Where will the money come from? And can they make it to a second term? Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS licence number: LE-0016481

00:54:05

21: What does it take to be effortlessly cool?

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2024/07/09

Ash has a theory of cool that involves nonchalance, style and timing – but Moya’s not so sure. Plus, advice for one listener who wants respect in their situationship, and someone dealing with a newcomer to the family. Come and see If I Speak live at the London Podcast Festival on 15 September! Tickets available from kingsplace.co.uk now. Got a problem? Tell us: ifispeak@novaramedia.com Music by Matt Huxley.

01:12:29

Downstream: Here's How America Really Runs Britain w/...

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2024/07/08

The United States’ impact on British culture and foreign policy is obvious. But its influence on our domestic politics, business, and daily lives warrants closer examination. To discuss this, Aaron is joined by Angus Hanton, author of ‘Vassal State: How America Runs Britain’.

01:00:46

Novara FM: Britain is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It? w/...

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2024/07/04

Asked in a recent poll to summarise Britain in a word, 'broken' was the people's top choice. This brokenness is concrete stuff: crumbling bridges, sewage-filled rivers, failing computer systems, abandoned rail projects. But it's also bundled with the collective stories we tell about what it means to be a nation, and who belongs in it.To find out why nothing works in Britain anymore, Moya Lothian-McLean talks to Dom Davies, author of The Broken Promise of Infrastructure. He explains how democratic

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