58. PLASTIC, PLASTIC EVERYWHERE: what do we do?
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. Catheri...
29 Okt 201853min
57. THE OWNERSHIP SHIFT
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 doe...
21 Okt 201856min
56. LAST EDITION? how to ensure quality journalism in the digital age
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...
14 Okt 201851min
55. LIVING FOR THE (THREE DAY) WEEKEND
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 ar...
7 Okt 201854min
54. THE ABC OF AI: How can technology help humanity?
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 safely still unde...
30 Sep 201855min
53. PROSPERITY AND JUSTICE: Shaking up the economy for social change
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 Brys...
23 Sep 201855min
52. THE QUIET RENEWABLES REVOLUTION
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....
16 Sep 201855min
51. FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Not for the bin
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 th...
9 Sep 201858min
