66. CHRISTMAS CHEERFUL: Chatting 2018 and playing Class Struggle
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 Di...
24 Joulu 201852min
65. COMPUTER SAYS YES: humanity and kindness in public services
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 th...
17 Joulu 201857min
64. SHARING AND CARING: the case for paternity leave
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 c...
10 Joulu 201855min
63. VALUING NEURODIVERSITY: how society needs to change
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 li...
3 Joulu 201852min
62. LIFE OVER DEATH: the global campaign to end capital punishment
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 H...
26 Marras 201855min
61. YUVAL AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET: a conversation on just about everything with Yuval Noah Harari
Hello! A special episode with author and all-around thinker extraordinaire and author of multi-million selling Homo Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari. He popped by to talk to us about the ongoing war of tech...
19 Marras 201850min
60. GEOFF, GEOFF, GEOFF...OUT OUT OUT: the power of protest
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 journ...
12 Marras 201859min
59. QE OR NOT QE?: printing money for a purpose
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 thr...
5 Marras 201845min
