In the final show of the series, K Biswas and James Knight explore the world of Culture looking at Film, Music, TV, Books and Visual Art. Their guest contributors include Chief Executive of theRoyal Society of Arts, Matthew Taylor; Director of the British Film Institute, Amanda Nevill; cultural commentator and author of Lost Worlds, Michael Bywater; Ken Trodd who worked on the BBC’s groundbreaking Play for Today series; Jaimie Hodgson, the NME‘s new music guru; XL Recordings‘ Caius Pawson; Dan Franklin from publisher Canongate; and curator and artist, Honor Harger.
Podcasts of the previous shows can be found here.
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50-50 Soundsystem (8/09/2010)
50-50 Soundsystem bring 17 years of DJing experience to ResonanceFM with 60’s, 70’s & 80’s old skool reggae with a touch of the new, plucked from the 50-50 vaults. Come listen to a flavour of the real old school, instrumental dub classics, and original soul breaks.
This week brought to you by Chris, Frost and Roots Ran.
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2020 Visions – Episode 5: Media
This week K Biswas and James Knight explore the changing nature of the Media and how the landscape will look in a decade’s time. Guest contributors include Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow; Andy Capper Editor of Vice Magazine; BBC Radio 5Live’s Dotun Adebayo; Euan Ferguson of the Observer; Sunday Times columnist Minette Marrin; Rowenna Davis who contributes to the Economist, Guardian and Sky News; media author and academic Adrian Monck; and Labour leadership candidate Diane Abbott.
Other shows in the series include Politics, Culture, Poverty, Work and Identity.
2020 Visions – Episode 4: Identity
This week, K Biswas and Rys Farthing look at Identity and how people may identify in 2020, with a focus on Gender, Disability, Sexuality and Ethnicity. Contributors include leading feminist commentators Julie Bindel of the Guardian and Laurie Penny of the New Statesman, Editor of gay lifestyle magazine Attitude Matthew Todd, Sunny Hundal the founder of Liberal Conspiracy and Pickled Politics, the thinktank ippr‘s Rick Muir, Labour leadership candidateDiane Abbott, and Julie Newman the acting chair of the UK Disabled People’s Council.
Other shows include Politics, Culture, Media, Work and Poverty.
2020 Visions – Episode 3: Work
This week, K Biswas and Rys Farthing look at the world of work, looking at wages, job creation and the future of employment in the UK. Contributors include former Mayor of London, Labour’s Ken Livingstone; founder of the journalSoundings Professor Doreen Massey; the right-of-centre think-tanks Policy Exchange and the Centre for Social Justice; Deborah Littman from Unison; Head of the Living Wage campaign at London Citizens, Rhys Moore; Resonance FM’s own anarchist agitator Ian Bone; and hedgefund director Stuart Macdonald.
2020 Visions – Episode 2: Poverty, inequality and the welfare state
This week, K Biswas and Rys Farthing explore poverty, inequality and the future of the British welfare state. Speaking to the leading figures in the poverty sector, we explore what may happen to incomes, public services and social justice for the poorest over the next decade. Guests include the author of The Spirit Level Professor Richard Wilkinson; Labour MP for Stretford and Urmston and former Chief Executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, Kate Green; Professor Danny Dorling of the University of Sheffield; Dr Madsen Pirie, founder of the Adam Smith Institute; author of Poverty,Professor Ruth Lister; Tom MacInnes of the New Policy Institute and Matthew Sinclair of the TaxPayers’ Alliance.
2020 Visions – Episode 1: The Political Future
The first of a 6 part series exploring future life in Britain, tonight we explore what the British political landscape might look like over the next decade. We examine the future for political parties, political ideologies and the way people will engage with politics.
Today’s guests include Labour’s Jon Cruddas MP; human rights activist Peter Tatchell; ConservativeHome editor Jonathan Isaby, psephologist Professor John Curtice; Dr Madsen Pirie, Director of the free-market Adam Smith Institute; LibDem Voice editor Stephen Tall; David Babbs of campaign organisation 38 Degrees, and the New Statesman’s Laurie Penny.
Other shows in the series explore inequality and welfare in the UK, work, culture, identity and the media.
Deep Fried Planet: Episode Five
Climate change activists Graham Thompson and Joss Garman discuss environmental current affairs with guests from politics, civil society and the media. This week they will be talking to award winning journalist Johann Hari about whether US green groups went bad and Diane Abbot about whether the environment is an issue in the Labour leadership contest.
Deep Fried Planet Episode Four
Climate change activists Joss Garman and Ben Stewart discuss environmental current affairs with guests from politics, civil society and the media. This week they speak to Will Straw of Left Foot Forward and David Babbs of 38 degrees to discuss how blogging and online campaigns could transform the way the environmental community and the broader progressive movement works.
Deep Fried Planet: Episode Three
In the third episode of Deep Fried Planet, Joss Garman discusses subsidies to big oil and big coal, and cuts to clean energy budgets. Joining him this week are Sarah Jayne-Clifton from Friends of the Earth and Colin Hines from the Green New Deal group.