x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

Reasons Revisited

An occasional series revisiting conversations and ideas from Reasons to be Cheerful (2017-2024), formerly hosted by ex-LabourParty leaderEdMiliband, and Sony Award-winning radio presenter Geoff Lloyd. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

news politics

All Episodes

56:29

70. 2019: A PUBLIC SPACE ODYSSEY: transforming...

Reasons Revisited ·

2019/01/21

Hello! When Ed makes a promise, he makes a promise! It might take 6 years to deliver, but now we get to share the discussion with you. What does that all mean? Well, Ed met Architect Christophe Egret while on holiday and needed to finish the conversation they had about the transformative power of public space. He joins us, as does author and academic, Anna Minton, and CEO for the Project for Public Spaces in the US, Phil Myrick, to warn of the dangerous creep of pseudo-publicspace and what a really

en

52:42

69. A SOCIAL HOME REVOLUTION: the history and future...

Reasons Revisited ·

2019/01/14

Hello! This week, with the release of the report from Shelter's cross-party commission (which included Ed) we're looking at the provision of social housing and the need for a transformation in how much we build and who it is for. Historian John Boughton, author of recent book Municipal Dreams, guides us from the past to the future, then we speak to members of the Commission, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, former Conservative Chair, and Lord Jim O'Neill to tell us how the recommendations in the report can

en

55:57

68. BORN TO (PARK) RUN: Geoff and Ed’s excellent...

Reasons Revisited ·

2019/01/07

Hello! We've made our New Year's resolutions, donned the trainers and tracksuits and joined the hundreds of thousands of people who do parkrun to find out what all the hype is about. Can we start our New Year as runners? The Finsbury Park parkrunners (Geoff's local) tell us what it's all about, and give us encouragement, then we're joined by Nick Pearson, Chief Executive of ParkRun who tells us about why the project is about more than running. Then Bella Mackie, author of new book Jog On shares her

en

1:17:54

67. THE OFFICIAL REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL 2018 CHART SHOW

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/12/31

Hello! Greetings pod pickers! You’re in for a treat this week. It’s our "Top 10" countdown of our favourite episodes this year. If you haven’t listened to them all or even if you have, here’s a way of getting the best bits in bite sized form—-Cheerful McNuggets. With special guest introducing the whole shebang, the legend that is Tony Blackburn! How can you resist.... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en

52:04

66. CHRISTMAS CHEERFUL: Chatting 2018 and playing...

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/12/24

Hello! We gathered around Geoff's kitchen table, joined by some IRL friends, a copy of the board game Class Struggle and some topics to find the cheerful from this year. Hear Josie Rourke, Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse and director of the new film, "Mary, Queen of Scots", Chris Addison, comedian, writer, actor and director and David Runciman, Professor of Politics at Cambridge and host of ‘Talking Politics’ podcast seek to provide a positive take on America, Democracy, Brexit, and

en

57:29

65. COMPUTER SAYS YES: humanity and kindness in...

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/12/17

Hello! Here at Cheerful towers we're talking about how we can enable the human touch to come to the fore in public services and policy and the barriers standing in the way of the people who work in them. Our guest Julia Unwin has been thinking about kindness in public policy, Professor Anthony Costello's new book The Social Edge is about the 'sympathy groups' that transform people's life chances & Dr Agnelo Fernandes talks about his amazing 'social prescribing' experiment in Croydon.ANDComedian

en

55:56

64. SHARING AND CARING: the case for paternity leave

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/12/10

Hello! This week we're talking Dads and the time off they have to look after their kids. Turns out more, properly paid paternity leave is better for kids, good for dads, and a very effective tool to close the gender pay gap. Unfortunately Britain lags behind.We speak to Lars Arrhenius about how brilliant Sweden is and how it could be even better, Sam Smethers from the Fawcett Society about how Britain could do better and Sam White and Will McDonald, the UK’s most senior all-male job share

en

52:46

63. VALUING NEURODIVERSITY: how society needs to change

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/12/03

Hello! Today we speak to two autistic people about what the neurodiversity movement is and what it means to them. Penny Andrews and Georgia Harper join us to talk about their personal experience of living with autism, and how our society, employers and all of us can learn to value and benefit from neurodiversity.ANDComedian Jodie Mitchell would like to tech up the fight against men stealing women's ideas, old tinted glasses for those who believe the olden days were better and a ban on incense for

en

55:54

62. LIFE OVER DEATH: the global campaign to end...

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/11/26

Hello! The death penalty still operates in many places around the world, although the good news is the number of countries using capital punishment is falling. Sevan Doraisamy, Executive Director of Human Rights Organisation SUARAM talks about the Malaysian government’s recent announcement that it intends toabolish capital punishmentand Anna Yearley and Maya Foa from Reprievetalk to us about their campaigns to end the death penalty and how your voice can make a difference.ANDComedian Lauren Pattison

en

50:13

61. YUVAL AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET: a conversation on...

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/11/19

Hello! A special episode with author and all-around thinker extraordinaire and author ofmulti-million selling Homo Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari. He popped by to talk to us about the ongoing war of technology vs humankind, fake news and more of the 21 lessons from the 21st Century —-his new book. This includes the virtues of 60-day uninterrupted meditation... But how would you do a weekly podcast? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en

59:47

60. GEOFF, GEOFF, GEOFF...OUT OUT OUT: the power of...

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/11/12

Hello! It’s 50 years since 1968, next year it will be 200 since the Peterloo massacre, so we are discussing the power of political protest, when they work and what it all means for today. French journalist Agnes Poirier chronicles ‘68 and after for us and Guardian columnist John Harris and American author Sarah Jaffe join us to talk about the past, present and future of political protest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

en

45:57

59. QE OR NOT QE?: printing money for a purpose

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/11/05

Hello! There is occasional bad quality audio on today’s episode for which apologies (tech gremlins). We hope it doesn’t spoil your enjoyment of the finer points of Quantitative Easing! II’s a term thrown around which for many of us falls somewhere between the "Offside Rule" and "Quantum Mechanics". But it’s really important we understand it because it is having big effects. Fran Boait and Josh Ryan-Collins get us up to speed with the basics and explain why it matters, and how we could be putting QE

en

53:31

58. PLASTIC, PLASTIC EVERYWHERE: what do we do?

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/10/29

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 doneANDComedian Rich Wilson challenges the Geoffocracy with his Richocracy full of electricity free days,

en

56:22

57. THE OWNERSHIP SHIFT

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/10/21

Hello! Do you feel ignored or unrewarded by your firm? How about transferring a proportion of shares in large companies to the workers, as advocated by Labour? Could it make the difference and how does it compare to other ideas of employee ownership? Mat Lawrence and Christine Berry join us to talk us through the issues and thinking behind it.ANDComedian Hayley Ellis brings us her manifesto - drama free soap opera days, a ban on politicians dancing, snoopers headphones. Hosted on Acast. See

en

51:21

56. LAST EDITION? how to ensure quality journalism in...

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/10/14

Hello! The internet is great, Geoff can be in Salford, Ed can be at home,our guests can be as far away as a hotel room in Finland, and we can STILL get a new episode to you... but... has the internet proved to be the catalyst for the end of local journalism and the collapse of the national printed press too? Alan Rusbridger, Emily Bell, Megan Lucero & Dan Hinds bring us their thoughts on the end of the traditional gatekeepers and how we can finance good quality journalism, national and local,

en

54:38

55. LIVING FOR THE (THREE DAY) WEEKEND

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/10/07

Hello! How often do you get back to work after the weekend feeling like it wasn't long enough? Well, a company in New Zealand have been trialling the 4-day working week and finding that their staff are achieving as much as in 4 days as they were in 5. Andrew Barnes, Founder of PerpetualGuadian, the company undertaking the trial, and Kate Bell from the TUC join us to talk about how realisticit is that a 4-day working week could possibly allow a company to continue paying a full wage.ANDComedian

en

55:41

54. THE ABC OF AI: How can technology help humanity?

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/09/30

Hello! Artificial intelligence didn't write this description (yet), but it has begun to take over some tasks that humans were responsible for. Are the humans ready, are the computers safelystill under our control, what happens when they're not?Max Tegmark, author of Life 3.0, and Duncan McCann from the New Economics Foundationjoined us to talk about the AI revolution, when it is coming and whether it could be put to positive benefit for society.ANDComedian Amy Gledhill advocates for tax lessons,

en

55:02

53. PROSPERITY AND JUSTICE: Shaking up the economy...

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/09/23

Hello! When the IPPR commission on economic justice took on the economy, promising prosperity and justice, they did it properly. In this episode, we talk to Michael Jacobs, its director, and Sara Bryson, a commission member about the big ideas in the report, why they're so important, and how we make them work.ANDComedian Tania Edwards brings us her ideas, a referendum about whether we should have had a referendum in the first place, some tough talk about offence, maximum wealth, and prison for hot

en

55:40

52. THE QUIET RENEWABLES REVOLUTION

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/09/16

Hello! This week we’re looking into the sky, the sea and all around us for our energy and talking about the good news that we see in the revolution in costs and take up of renewables around the world. And we’’ll be asking our guests Jeremy Leggett from SolarCentury and Juliet Davenport from Good Energy what more we should be doing in the UK and globally.ANDComedian Sooz Kempner addresses dressage, compensatory crisps and dips for date rejections, start school term with the rest of the rest of the

en

58:12

51. FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Not for the bin

Reasons Revisited ·

2018/09/09

Hello! Ed and Geoff are back in the same room after their summer holidays / "lads tour". This week we hear from Saasha Celestial-One and Lindsay Boswell about the disgusting situation of food waste the country has gotten in to, despite so many below the breadline going hungry. We look at the Foodshare and Olio programmes and what they're doing to roll us back to the era of making the most of everything we have and hopefully reduce the UK throwing one-third of all food away.ANDComedian Phil Wang

en

375 results

Similar Podcasts

Expres Ráno

Expres FM

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS News

CD Voice

China Daily

Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

Noa Levi

Jeffrey Epstein: The Coverup Chronicles

Bobby Capucci