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Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast

Presented by Matt Barr, Looking Sideways is a podcast about the best stories in skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, and other related endeavours. www.wearelookingsideways.com

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Episode 262: Julie Maughan and Chris Hines - Dirty...

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2026/04/02

In this episode of Looking Sideways, I speak to Julie Maughan and Chris Hines about Dirty Business, the recent Channel 4 drama exposing the state of the UK’s water industry since privatisation, and the real-life tragedy at its centre.The story of eight-year-old Heather Preen, who died after contracting E. coli following a sewage spill on a Devon beach, forms the emotional core of the series, and is what really makes this such a powerful piece of storytelling.Because what Dirty Business does so

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Episode 261: Calum Macintyre - Ski Fossil Free

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2026/03/17

Welcome to the final episode of my three-part Winter Olympics series, in which we’re tackling one of the biggest controversies surrounding the recent Winter Olympics: fossil fuel sponsorship.This episode focuses on the Ski Fossil Free campaign, initiated by activists Calum McIntyre and Nikolai Schirmer, which seeks to end fossil fuel partnerships across IOC and FIS events. This incredibly effective feat of climate campaigning saw Nikolai deliver a petition - signed by over 20,000 people - to the IOC

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73:52

Episode 259: Tim Warwood & Ed Leigh - The View From...

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2026/02/24

Welcome to the first of three post–Winter Olympics episodes in which we’ll examine the recent Games from a number of different perspectives.As a lifelong snowboarder, I’ve always had a complicated relationship with the Olympics. The performances and spectacle are incredible. But beyond the hype, there are bigger cultural conversations worth having. That’s what this short series is about.In this first episode, I’m joined by BBC Olympic commentators Tim Warwood and Ed Leigh — lifelong snowboarders and

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90:52

Episode 258: Alice Sainsbury - Design Justice

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2026/02/18

Alice Sainsbury is a designer, writer and speaker who in 2015 was diagnosed with an acute neurological condition called transverse myelitis.Since then, she’s been on a mission to break down the barriers that stop people with disabilities participating in the outdoor sports and activities that so many of us take for granted.In this episode, we explore the reality of life for a disabled person in 2026, and the systemic, societal difficulties disabled people face when it comes to participating in

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Episode 257: Orlando von Einsiedel - The Cycle of Love

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2026/02/03

Oscar-winner, snowboarder, and one of the most influential documentary filmmakers working today, Orlando von Einsiedel makes his return to the show, nearly eight years after his first appearance.In that time, films such as Virunga, The White Helmets and The Lost Children have set a new standard in gripping, immersive documentary story-telling.Recorded live at the 2025 Kendal Mountain Festival in front of a sold out audience, this wide-ranging conversation centres on Orlando’s latest film The Cycle

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Episode 256: Axel Pauporté - Europe's Freeriding Pioneer

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2026/01/21

If you ask me, this week’s guest Axel Pauporte is one of the most influential snowboarders of the 1990s and 2000s.Even if you don’t know his name, you’re living in a snowboarding culture that he helped shape. Especially if you’re a European snowboarder. To qualify this rather bold claim, it helps to remember how singular an outlier Axel truly was. Back in the early 90s, professional snowboarders from mainland Europe were a genuine rarity. Professional snowboarders from flat Northern European

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Episode 255: Tim & Gendle - Festive Special!

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/12/24

It’s December 24th. Which must means it’s time for my much-loved Festive Special with close friends-of-the-show Tim Warwood and Adam Gendle!This might well be the conversation I look forward to the most each year. If you’re new to the show, some background: I go back thirty years with these boys, who I first met through the very close British snowboarding community we’re so lucky to be an integral part of.Eight years ago, we got together at Christmas to record the first Looking Sideways special, and

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Episode 253: Seth Hughes - Apprentice to Land and Sea

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2025/10/30

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--Filmmaker, surfer, seeker and - OK, then - influencer: Seth Hughes is one of British surfing’s most thought-provoking creative presences.We’ve been friends for a few years now, and like everybody who follows him on Instagram, over the last few years I’ve been following his ‘apprenticeship to the land and sea’ with fascination and interest. I’ve also appreciated the increasingly searching and occasionally uncomfortable questions he likes to

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58:38

Episode 249: Wes Siler - Trump's Attack On The Outdoors

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/05/29

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--As America's current democratic crisis has unfolded over the last few months, I’ve pondered an increasingly uncomfortable question: where is the meaningful opposition from our community as fundamental institutions and public lands face unprecedented assault?How to account for the relative silence from community leaders, athletes, ambassadors, brands and media as democratic norms erode, judicial independence faces mounting threats, habeas

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61:19

The Announcement: John Elkington and Louise...

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/05/12

In this third follow-up episode of The Announcement, I'm sharing my original January 2024 conversation with John Elkington and Louise Kjellerup Roper of Volans in its entirety.This conversation addresses perhaps the most significant yet under-discussed aspect of the Patagonia ‘Earth is our only shareholder’ story - its relevance as a model for most businesses, especially publicly-traded or shareholder-owned companies.Because the uncomfortable reality is that structural and organisational constraints

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68:14

The Announcement: We Are Citizens, Not Consumers

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2025/04/07

In this second follow-up episode of The Announcement, I explore a crucial counterbalance to the billionaire-driven change narrative: the power of citizenship and grassroots movements in reshaping our collective future.I'm joined by Jon Alexander, co-founder of the New Citizen Project and co-author of the increasingly influential book Citizens - a work that offers a compelling, necessary vision about who we are and how we might move forward together.This exchange builds directly on themes discussed

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68:14

The Announcement: We Are Citizens, Not Consumers

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/04/06

In this second follow-up episode of The Announcement, I explore a crucial counterbalance to the billionaire-driven change narrative: the power of citizenship and grassroots movements in reshaping our collective future.I'm joined by Jon Alexander, co-founder of the New Citizen Project and co-author of the increasingly influential book Citizens - a work that offers a compelling, necessary vision about who we are and how we might move forward together.This exchange builds directly on themes discussed

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Episode 247: Truls Brataas - How I Built Db

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2025/03/24

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 15% off anything from Db Journey.--The notion of the visionary founder is the most ubiquitous of modern tropes.It is also one of the most harmful, as one glance at the madness that unfolds on LinkedIn on any given day ably demonstrates.And in a way the idea that the founder is fuelled by a weird diet, 4am starts and a particularly itchy social media trigger-finger reminds me of another toxic stereotype - the myth of the anointed creative.Both rely on this idea that these

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62:38

The Announcement Episode 3: Legacy

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/01/27

“Well, I think the simple answer, and nothing here is simple, is that capitalism dies with its mistakes.” - John Elkington, Founder, VolansPatagonia’s September 2022 decisions to make ‘Earth’ the company’s only shareholder was huge news, particularly in the worlds of climate activism, business, philanthropy, the outdoors, and action sports. And at the heart of this decision, as the company made clear at the time, was a desire to shake up the capitalist and democratic status quo. What does this

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Introducing The Announcement

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2025/01/06

"Earth is our only shareholder.”In September 2022, Patagonia's billionaire owner Yvon Chouinard relinquished control and made 'earth' the company's only shareholder.But … what did this actually mean? Why did he do it? What about the scrutiny the company received? And is this really a critical moment in the history of capitalism, as Patagonia believe?The Announcement is a new three-part podcast documentary series from Looking Sideways, hosted by Matt Barr.This is a story about legacy, purpose, what

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Episode 244: Tim & Gendle - Festive Special!

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/12/23

Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS massive discounts on ski and snowboard hire from my friends at Intersport Rent. --Ah, Christmas. A time of friends, family and tradition - which in Looking Sideways world means the much loved Festive Special with my close pals and stalwart podcast supporters Tim and Gendle! If you’re new here (and many thousands of you subscribed anew this year), I’ve known Tim Warwood and Adam Gendle, two incredibly funny and talented broadcasters, commentators, TV presenters, directors and all

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90:01

Episode 243: Chris Nelson - Marching On Together

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/12/02

Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--Regulars who’ve been following Looking Sideways at all closely for the last two years will be familiar with the name Chris Nelson. Alongside Demi Taylor and Lewis Arnold, he’s one of the triumvirate of creative talents behind the brilliant Big Sea, which I’ve been championing since I saw the first cut back in November 2022. But I actually go way, way back with Chris. To the mid-1990s, in fact, when we were both young

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Episode 241: Jordy Smith - Jordy's Game

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/10/28

Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--As anybody who’s watched your typical softball chat-show conversation will be aware, interviews with people at a certain level of fame and renown, such as this week’s guest Jordy Smith, tend to unfold in one of two ways. There’s the filtered, on-message, and generally uninteresting stuff we’ve all heard countless times before. And then, very rarely, there’s what happened here: which is a really an insightful and frequently

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Episode 240: Jamie Brisick - Third

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/10/06

Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--What a treat to welcome the great Jamie Brisick back for his third Looking Sideways appearance. The occasion? The release of The Life and Death of Westerly Windina, his brilliant documentary collaboration with Australian director Alan White about the life and times of Peter Drouyn and Westerly Windina. But also, a welcome chance to catch up with one of surfing’s sharpest, brightest minds. My friendship with Jamie has been one

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Episode 239: Laura Crane - Hear My Story

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast ·

2024/09/22

Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--Over the last year, it’s been one of the biggest stories in British surfing. How Croyde’s own Laura Crane headed to Nazare, and surfed the biggest waves ever snagged by a British woman. No wonder if’s been covered by everybody from Carve to BBC Radio Five Live. But if you’ve been listening a little bit more closely, you’ll realise that there’s actually much more to Laura’s story than this admittedly incredible feat. And it’s

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