Episode summary: Trebor Scholz, a scholar and activist at the forefront of the bustling platform cooperativism movement, joins us to talk about how coops can shape everything from ride share apps to data ownership, from local delivery services to music streaming. It’s a fascinating listen about the...

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Episode summary: As the Trump years finally come to an end, your host contemplates collective guilt and shame.

Extremely well done, and very salutary. I don’t know that I would have had the balls to play a sound bed under archive audio of Thomas Mann addressing the Library of Congress, but that’s...

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Episode summary: In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean was invited to write a letter to a man on death row named Elmo Patrick Sonnier. She told us, “I thought that all I was going to be doing was writing letters. And lo and behold, two years later, I am in that execution chamber.” She’s now 81, and has been...

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Episode summary: In this episode, David and Rosemary attempt to automate as much communication as possible, from email to messages and TextExpander to Shortcuts and Drafts, there’s plenty of ways to get stuck in!

Episode summary: No episode summary, because I sent this first one to Huffduffer to sample. And I’m sold. But not so much that I will explore the entire back catalogue.

Episode summary: I’ve been thinking about fear, and movement, and exploration, and safety. I’ve been thinking about barriers, and perimeters - those we create and those that are imposed. Pushing yourself into fear on purpose gives some comfort that maybe you’ll be able to navigate life when you real...

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Episode summary: How Moderna’s overnight vaccine success was 33 years in the making

Episode summary: David and Helen are joined by Diane Coyle and Anand Menon to have another go at pinning down the long term consequences of Brexit. Now we have a deal, what are the prospects for rebalancing the UK economy? Do EU politicians want a post-Brexit UK to succeed or to fail? Can Labour rea...

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Episode summary: What lessons does the past hold for our future? Join Britain’s pre-eminent public historian to explore his thoughts on the pandemic, the Biden presidency, the future of populism and more. The events of 2020 have upturned the order of the world, and the medical, economic and politica...

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