Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy
254 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsHow can you change the world? Join Krishnan Guru-Murthy and his guest of the week as they explore the big ideas influencing how we think, act and live.
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Comedian Bassem Youssef on the Israel-Gaza war, the Arab Spring, and why we can’t change the world
April 11, 2024 09:36 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBBassem Youssef thinks that he’s come on the wrong podcast. “People in power don't really care about any of our suggestions to change the world”, he tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy, “because if our ways to change the world affect their interests, they will stop you.” And he knows what he’s talking about, having fled his home country of Egypt after his TV comedy became no longer acceptable to the authorities there. Bassem started his career as a heart surgeon, then moved to political comedy in ...
Playwright of Jodie Comer's Broadway hit, Suzie Miller, on sexual assault and getting justice
April 04, 2024 15:08 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MBWhen lawyer turned playwright Suzie Miller created a one-woman show starring Jodie Comer for the West End and Broadway called ‘Prima Facie’, she wouldn’t have dreamt that her play would fuel real change in the legal system’s approach to sexual assault cases. The play has won multiple awards, has inspired efforts to change UK laws, and has also been turned into a book of the same title. In this episode of Ways to Change the World, Suzie Miller tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy why rape ...
Poet Nikki Giovanni on white supremacy, the Capitol attack, and teaching the Virginia Tech shooter
March 28, 2024 18:53 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MBNikki Giovanni has spent more than five decades in the public eye, as an activist, poet and innovator. Born on the "wrong side of the tracks" in Knoxville, Tennessee, during the era of segregation, Giovanni came of age during the Black power and civil rights movements in 1960s in America. She came under the spotlight again in 2007, when the university she had been teaching at, Virginia Tech, was the victim of a mass shooting, carried out by one of her former students. The poem she wrote to...
Armistead Maupin on trans rights and growing up gay in a homophobic household
March 14, 2024 10:00 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBAuthor Armistead Maupin is a pioneer - writing about AIDS and HIV for a mass audience and daring to include gay, lesbian, trans and queer lives when few others were. His ‘Tales of the City’ series, which started as a newspaper column in 1974, became worldwide best-selling novels and a Netflix series. It chronicles the lives of queer people in San Francisco and pokes fun at morality and social norms, touching millions of readers and viewers over 50 years. The beloved saga is now back fo...
Author Kiley Reid on Black artists, handling criticism and social media
March 07, 2024 08:00 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MB“I don’t write fiction to preach my politics,” says Kiley Reid - an American author whose debut novel “Such a Fun Age” was longlisted for the 2020 Booker prize. The book gained recognition for its themes on race, privilege, and social dynamics in modern America. Fast forward to 2024, and Reid’s second novel, “Come and Get It” delves even further into the heart of societal complexities. It’s based in a US campus and centred around money and wealth - who has it and who wants it - and the imp...
Timpson’s boss on upside-down management and business secrets
February 29, 2024 06:00 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MBHow do you measure a business’s success? For James Timpson, CEO of the Timpson’s Group, it comes down to two things: the satisfaction of its staff, and what it gives back to society. His employees only have to “put money in the till and look the part”; for the rest, they have complete authority to do whatever they think is right to offer a quality service to customers. This “upside-down” style of management doesn’t mean the business is not profitable - quite the opposite, in fact. In thi...
Bernie Sanders on Gaza, genocide and Trump
February 23, 2024 06:00 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBBernie Sanders is the longest-serving independent senator in US congressional history and has brought income inequality, poverty and the “uber-capitalist” status quo into focus throughout his decades-long career. He nearly became the Democrats’ candidate for president, twice, and has recently been backing Joe Biden against Donald Trump, warning that Trump’s re-election could be the end of American democracy. In his latest book, “It’s Okay To Be Angry About Capitalism”, he presents his visi...
Crystal Hefner on her marriage to Hugh and being ‘trapped’ in the Playboy Mansion
February 15, 2024 06:00 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBCrystal Hefner was 21 when she first entered the infamous Playboy Mansion in October 2008. Within months, she ascended its hierarchy to become the top girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, who was 60 years her senior, and went on to marry him in 2012. But she quickly discovered the house was not the glittering sanctuary she had believed, nor Mr Hefner’s Playboy was the place of freedom, expression and empowerment it professed itself to be. Crystal only left the mansion when Hefner died, aged 91, in 2...
Hannah Ritchie on replacing eco-anxiety with 'cautious optimism' and how to build a more sustainable world
February 01, 2024 12:00 - 40 minutes - 55.5 MBThe past year has been a time of climate firsts, mainly for the wrong reasons. 2023 was the hottest year on record - with devastating wildfires, catastrophic flooding, ongoing loss of biodiversity and carbon emissions continuing to rise. But is there any hope for the possibility for a better future? Well, there is in fact room for ‘cautious optimism’ says environmental scientist, Dr Hannah Ritchie, whose book Not the End of the World offers a data-based analysis of environmental proble...
‘Deliciously’ Ella Mills on healthy eating and society's toxic relationship with ultra-processed foods
January 11, 2024 13:00 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBElla Mills is the best-selling food writer and founder of Deliciously Ella, the food blog-turned-brand which she created in 2012 after a sudden debilitating illness led her to overhaul her diet and turn to plant-based foods as a way to get better. Since then, Mills has become a key player in bringing healthy food to the mainstream, with a brand whose 100 plant-based, additive-free products are now sold in all major UK supermarkets, and whose revenue is estimated to be £20 million. But this...
Arnold Schwarzenegger on self-help, the Israel-Gaza war and why he'd be a good US president
December 21, 2023 07:00 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBDespite being 76 years old, Arnold Schwarzenegger shows no signs of stopping. The bodybuilding champion turned Hollywood star turned US politician, now in the ‘fourth act’ of his life, has reinvented himself into a motivator, and written a book, ‘Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life’, about guiding people to achieve a ‘happy, successful, useful life’, inspired by his singular American experience. Today on Ways to Change the World, Arnold Schwarzenegger tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy how h...
Samuel Kasumu, Former Special Advisor to Boris Johnson, on culture wars in government and being a Tory
December 15, 2023 10:12 - 43 minutes - 59.8 MBFrom 2019 to 2021, Samuel Kasumu was the most senior Black advisor in Downing Street, and was widely referred to as Boris Johnson’s racism advisor, working alongside the former Prime Minister during the first half of the Covid pandemic. Kasumu left Downing Street in April 2021, amid the fallout from a UK government report that dismissed institutional racism. It wasn’t until after leaving his position, he says, that he realised how much of an ‘outsider’ he was, as a Black, working-class man...
Keith Allen on becoming an actor and why he would legalise drugs
December 08, 2023 09:00 - 25 minutes - 35.7 MBKeith Allen has been many things. The father of popstar Lily and Game of Thrones actor Alfie Allen, he was also a TV presenter, theatre actor, the man behind two hit football anthems (the Fat Les ditty “Vindaloo” and New Order’s “World in Motion”, both of which he co-wrote) and a handful of small roles in cult movies (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, 24 Hour Party People). Growing up, he was a troublemaker; he’d spent time in Borstal, was thrown out of drama school, even sent to prison. No...
Billy Porter on being a queer Black man in the music industry, the actors' strike and Trump's America
December 01, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBBilly Porter started singing in church when he was about five years old, and growing up saw performance as a lifeline out of the trauma and rejection he experienced as a Black gay man. The multi-hyphenate star won a Grammy and a few Tonys since his breakout role on Broadway with 2013's Kinky Boots, and was the first openly gay Black man to win a lead acting Emmy for his role in the drama series Pose in 2019. Now Porter is returning to mainstream music with his fifth studio album, Black Mon...
Astronaut Tim Peake on Elon Musk's SpaceX and the future of space exploration
November 23, 2023 16:37 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MBBeing an astronaut is a job like no other. Of the estimated 100 billion people who have ever lived, only 628 people in human history have left Earth. Tim Peake is one of them. A former test pilot who served in the British Army Air Corps, he was the first British astronaut to ever walk in space, and completed his six-month Principia mission to the International Space Station with the European Space Agency when he landed back on Earth in June 2016. Today on Ways to Change the World, he tel...
Caster Semenya on gender fairness in athletics and what being a woman means to her
November 17, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MBCaster Semenya has never doubted that she was a woman. It wasn’t until her athletics career started to take off that the now two-time Olympic Games gold medallist and a three-time World Athletics Championships gold medallist faced any questions over her gender. Called a ‘threat to the sport’ and ‘not woman enough’, she has become the most visible DSD (difference in sex development) athlete today, and found herself at the centre of the debate around the newly drawn line between gender and spo...
ActionAid CEO Halima Begum on siding with humanity in Israel-Gaza war and the West’s ‘moral responsibility’ to humanitarian aid
November 10, 2023 07:00 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBIt is nearly two weeks since Israel launched its ground offensive into Gaza and more than a month since it began intensive air strikes against Hamas, following the brutal attacks in Israel in which more than 1,400 people were killed. ActionAid is one of the many charities responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and its UK CEO Halima Begum is urging countries that finding a humanitarian solution is paramount, with thousands of civilians dead and the majority of Gaza's 2.3 million res...
Carlo Rovelli on white holes, challenging different narratives and the need for a ‘reasonable compromise’ in the Israel-Palestine war
November 03, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBCarlo Rovelli has devoted large parts of his life to explaining to the general public what appears on the surface to be the unexplainable - and his bestselling science books saw him dubbed 'the poet of modern physics’. But the quantum gravity researcher is as comfortable discussing his own work on black holes, as he is talking about recent politics such as the Israel-Palestine conflict, on the grounds that, like in scientific research, every issue has different facets and cooperation is ke...
Mikaela Loach on fighting the climate crisis through social justice, the problem with net zero, and being a 'soft Black girl'
October 20, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes - 49.5 MBThe climate crisis is the biggest single issue affecting us all - but for some, the impact will be, and already is, far greater than for others. This is the principle of climate justice, that sees the causes and consequences of climate change as inextricably linked with social inequality - and that activist Mikaela Loach has made the focus of her work. Today on Ways to Change the World, Mikaela Loach tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy why we need to reframe our understanding of the climate crisi...
Yanis Varoufakis on the death of capitalism, Starmer and the tyranny of big tech
September 29, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBThe world is witnessing an epochal shift, according to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis: from the now-dead capitalism, to “technofeudalism”. In his latest book, the former Greek politician - who in 2015, at the height of the Greek debt crisis, was catapulted from academic obscurity to Minister of Finance - argues that insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies in the wake of the financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic have ended up supercharging big tech's hold over e...
Cambridge’s youngest Black professor Jason Arday on Autism, racism, and learning to read at 18
September 22, 2023 10:17 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MB"You're categorised as not being particularly intelligent or able," says Jason Arday, an autistic Sociologist who became Cambridge University's youngest black professor. Jason Arday was unable to speak until he was 11 and could not read or write until he was 18. As a PE teacher in 2012, he wrote a list of goals he wanted to achieve. One of them was to be a professor at Oxford or Cambridge University. Today on Ways To Change The World, Jason Arday tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy about his jou...
Poet Lemn Sissay on growing up in the care system, racism and finding his Ethiopian family
September 15, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBAt 14, Lemn Sissay inked his initials into his hand with a homemade tattoo. He didn’t write LS, but NG, for Norman Greenwood, which he thought was his name. Except that it wasn’t. His real identity had been withheld from him since he was born. Born in Wigan to an Ethiopian mother, Lemn Sissay was raised in care; first in a foster family and then, from the age of 12 to 18, in a string of children's homes, including the notorious Wood End assessment centre, where he was physically, emotional...
Dawn Butler MP on white feminism, Sadiq Khan, and racism in Parliament
September 08, 2023 05:00 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBAs the third Black woman ever to be elected as an MP, and then instated as a government Minister, Dawn Butler has been vocal on the disrespect that Black women face in politics. As an outspoken campaigner herself, Butler was criticised in 2019 for calling Boris Johnson a liar in the House of Commons. She was subsequently asked to leave the Parliament grounds that day. Whilst calling for the former Met Commissioner, Cressida Dick, to resign, she ironically found herself being stopped by ...
Ice Cube on the police, AI and Black business
September 01, 2023 07:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MB“The police haven’t changed,” says American rapper Ice Cube, marking 35 years since the release of the track “F*** Tha Police” that cemented his status in musical history alongside the hip hop group N.W. A. Ice Cube is regarded by hip-hop critics and fans as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time. He was first famous for the N.W.A album, Straight Outta Compton, then became a solo artist, actor, producer and owner of a new basketball league, BIG3. Today on Ways to Ch...
Activist Gina Martin on changing the law on upskirting, ‘boys will be boys’, and the impact of online abuse
August 25, 2023 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBGina Martin is best known as the driving force behind the Voyeurism Act, which made upskirting, or the taking of pictures under a person’s clothing without permission, a criminal offence in England and Wales, after she was assaulted at a music festival. The gender equality activist is now working to teach people how to challenge problematic statements such as ‘boys will be boys’ and ‘not all men’, and have constructive conversations on social justice issues. Today on Ways to Change the W...
Poet Ben Okri on disruptive climate protests and dreaming of Nigeria
July 21, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MB‘This earth that we love is in grave danger because of us,’ reads the first line of Sir Ben Okri’s poem, ‘The Broken’. The poet and Booker-prize winner, who has long been a vocal environmental activist, has seen the effects of the climate catastrophe firsthand, as a young boy growing up in Nigeria, but is optimistic that it’s not too late to reverse the damage that’s been done to our planet. Today on Ways to Change the World, Ben Okri tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the urgent ...
Syrian chef and refugee Imad Al Arnab on his journey from war-torn Syria to opening his dream restaurant in Soho
July 14, 2023 10:46 - 27 minutes - 25 MBWhen he fled his war-torn hometown of Damascus, Imad Al Arnab spent three dangerous months smuggled in lorries trying to reach Europe. He arrived in the UK in the autumn of 2015 with a fake passport and just £12 in his pocket. Now, the Syrian chef has opened his own restaurant in Soho, and written a cookbook that is as much a celebration of his homeland as a reflection of his experience as a refugee. Today on Ways to Change the World, Imad Al Arnab joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to t...
Wes Streeting on child poverty, coming out, and how he would run the NHS
July 07, 2023 10:49 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBBrought up on a council estate in the East End of London, the son of a single mother whose own father was a bank robber and whose mother once shared a prison cell with Christine Keeler, Wes Streeting MP owes his life to a fry up. His working class background and the challenges he experienced growing up in poverty now inform the Shadow Health Secretary’s mission in politics, to ensure others like him have similar opportunities. Today on Ways to Change the World, Wes Streeting join...
Evgenia Kara-Murza on the fight to free Russia’s political prisoners and the dream of a democratic Russia
June 30, 2023 14:07 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBWhen Evgenia Kara-Murza and her husband Vladimir parted ways in April 2022, she had no idea that would be the last time they’d see each other. Vladimir, a long-time Russian opposition activist, was arrested in Moscow later that month and is now serving 25 years in prison for his public criticism of President Vladimir Putin and Russia's war on Ukraine. Since then, Evgenia has taken up the mantle of his activism, travelling around the world to speak out against his detention and the crim...
Barbara Kingsolver on America’s opioid crisis and classist attitudes to rural communities
June 23, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBFor a generation growing up in the rural US state of Virginia, opioid addiction isn't an abstraction - it's neighbours, parents, and friends. Writer Barbara Kingsolver wanted to give these ‘lost boys’ of Appalachia a voice; to tell the story of the children forced into a life of foster care because their parents are dead, in prison or too incapacitated by addiction. Today on Ways to Change the World, the award-winning author joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about America’s opio...
Kamila Shamsie on "Googling while Muslim", Shamima Begum and the UK’s ‘racist’ immigration policy
June 16, 2023 07:16 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBIn 1988, a 15-year-old Kamila Shamsie stayed up all night to watch Pakistan elect its first woman prime minister. Years later, and politics is still very much at the centre of the writer’s life – on and off the page. The Pakistani / British writer has long been a vocal critic of the UK government’s immigration and civil rights policies, and yet she only felt able to write Home Fire – which offers a piercing critique of Islamophobia within the British political establishment – after she...
Chris van Tulleken on how our ultra-processed diet is killing us
June 09, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBWhat is ultra-processed food? And do we really know what it’s doing to our bodies, our health, and the planet? Chris van Tulleken is a doctor and TV presenter who says most of the food that we eat isn’t really food. “Whether you're eating a burger, or a piece of fried chicken, or a breakfast cereal, there are illusions of texture. There will be little crunches and pops and snaps and greasy bits and dry bits and chewy bits. But it's all inhalably fast-to-eat and the hormones that tell you t...
Sadiq Khan on climate change, immigration and London’s policing crisis
June 02, 2023 04:00 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBSadiq Khan has been the mayor of London since 2016, and he’s seeking a third term next year. In today’s episode of Ways to Change the World, Sadiq talks to Krishnan about his new book, ‘Breathe’, in which explores why tackling the climate emergency has become his defining policy, as the mayor of London. Sadiq also discusses the crisis of policing in London, the possibility of a Labour government in Downing Street and why the UK government should be allowing more migrants to move to Lon...
Nick Cave on free speech, his religion, and finding - and defining - happiness
May 26, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBNick Cave hates giving interviews. It’s the first thing he mentions in his new book, “Faith, Hope & Carnage”, which comprises a series of conversations between Cave and the writer Seán O’Hagan. So it’s with some trepidation that Krishnan Guru-Murthy sits down with the post punk legend, to discuss the book, along with Cave’s attending the coronation, the tragic death of his son, his attitudes towards free speech and political correctness, and his journey to find - and define - happiness. ...
Suzanne Simmard on fungal networks, ‘Mother’ trees, and restoring our forests
May 19, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBWhen Suzanne Simard discovered that trees could communicate through underground networks of fungi in 1997, her work was largely dismissed.But today, as a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia, her work is recognised as pioneering within the scientific community. In her book ‘Finding Mother Tree’, she explores how forests have ‘hub trees’ that play an important role in plant communication.In today’s episode of Ways to Change the World, Suzanne looks back at her w...
Azeem Rafiq on tackling racism in cricket, losing his son, and facing his own failures
May 12, 2023 07:42 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBIn 2017, Azeem Rafiq’s world collapsed around him. He lost his baby son, and shortly after, the career that he had worked his entire life for, after he blew the whistle on racism and bullying at Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Azeem found himself at the centre of a long-running scandal which unlocked a long process which is now international. In the years that followed, Rafiq’s grief, his battle with the club, and numerous allegations of poor behaviour against himself, saw him reach th...
Actor Eddie Marsan on the struggles of being a working class actor and the tyranny of toxic masculinity
April 07, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBHe is an actor who would be hard to typecast, but Eddie Marsan always plays the villain. “I think it has a lot to do with my upbringing”, he says, “there was a lot of violence, criminality and a lot of toxic masculinity.” “I remember being afraid of white working class men. When you see Danny Dyer, Ray Winstone… they have an appeal to them, and I've never been able to do that. And it's because of my experience growing up within the white working class; there was always an element of fear....
Michael Balogun on finding his purpose in prison and the power of belief
March 31, 2023 04:00 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MB“I don't think you can expect someone to change their life by putting them in a room and locking the door.” Michael Balogun might not believe that prison “helps” people to turn their life around, but it was undoubtedly his experience serving time that led him to where he is today - a star of the West End, currently appearing in a version of the Lehman Trilogy at the National Theatre. But there’s more to Balogun than a zero to hero story; his is one of extraordinary resilience, the power ...
Gary Younge on race, Rwanda and a lifetime of writing about Black life
March 24, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MB“On the television, they were saying we were thieves, that we were raised with no morals”. Growing up Black in 1970s Britain, writer Gary Younge didn’t feel fully accepted - he didn’t even feel British. “Someone would go, “it’s cold today isn’t it, I bet it’s not like this where you come from,” and you’d be like, "I come from just down the road mate!” His latest book, Dispatches from the Diaspora, looks at a lifetime of writing about Black life, spanning a 30-year career, based in Britain ...
Mariana Mazzucato on how governments can take back control of their contracts
March 17, 2023 10:25 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MBHow can the government attract the country’s best minds to work for them? How do we know when a private sector contract is a good one? And what can we learn from NASA about business and efficiency? Mariana Mazzucato is a professor of Economics at the University College London and an advisor to many governments. In her latest book, ‘The Big Con’, she looks at the relationship between the consulting industry and government, and the way business and governments are run, and plans executed. ...
Peter Frankopan on how humans have shaped the planet and how we’ll destroy ourselves
March 10, 2023 05:00 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MB“We're the only species who have worked out to blow up everything and kill everyone”. In his latest book, The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan takes on the entirety of the history of planet earth, and looks at how our lives have been shaped by environmental changes since the dawn of our planet, 4.5 billion years ago, until the present day. He tackles the transformation of the earth, teasing apart the connection between humans and climate, explaining how “we are the product of massive clima...
Simon Le Bon on the secret to Duran Duran’s success and why the band shy away from politics
March 03, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MBHe’s the frontman of one of the most iconic bands of the 80s. Four decades on, Simon Le Bon says that New Wave legends Duran Duran are still going strong, making new music and announcing that they’re going on tour again. In today’s episode of Ways to Change the World, Simon Le Bon sits down with Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss why the band doesn't make political statements, the state of the music industry, and the secret to Duran Duran’s longevity. Produced by : Imahn Robertson
Sebastian Payne on centre-right ideas and Britain’s political future
February 24, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBSebastian Payne is an author and the Director of centre-right think tank Onward, where he explores the bigger problems and challenges facing Britain today. He recently left his post as Whitehall Editor of the Financial Times, where he spent years navigating the corridors of Parliament, detangling the latest scandals and finding out what politics really means for people up and down the country. His childhood, growing up in Gateshead, influenced him to write one of his books, ‘Broken Heartl...
Baaba Maal on the power of music and the future of Africa
February 17, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MB“I’m a nomadic person, I don’t want to stay in one place”. When Baaba writes his music, he takes inspiration from the places he visits. “When I started travelling, I came to London, I bought cassettes, I appreciated different people. And when I got a chance to meet them, we sat down and wrote songs”. But no matter how much Baaba has travelled, and to where, he always brings his music “back home to Podor, Senegal”. Baaba has released his first solo album in seven years, ‘Being’, which is i...
Cariad Lloyd on coping with grief and finding humour in death
February 03, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MB“I was thinking about all my friends who launched a podcast and I thought, “if I had a podcast. I'd just talk to people about death. That's a terrible idea”.” When Cariad Lloyd’s father died of cancer when she was 15, she was angry, “for, probably, 10 years”. But later in life, she found herself wanting to share her experience of grief, and started the award-winning podcast Griefcast. Cariad has now written a book, ‘You Are Not Alone’, which delves into her own experience of grief, and wh...
Jyoti Patel on identity, belonging, and how to ask someone the question: “Where are you from?”
January 27, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes - 48.2 MB“I didn't write this book to be hugely sellable, hugely commercial - I wrote it because it’s a story that I felt needed to be told.” Jyoti Patel’s debut novel, ‘The Things That We Lost’ is the story of a British Gujarati mother and son discovering how they fit into the world and learning how to balance the Gujarati and British sides of their identities. The book earnt Jyoti the Merky Books New Writers Prize 2021, a competition launched by Stormzy and Penguin House UK to discover unpubli...
Frances O’Grady on strikes, single parents and the trade union movement
January 20, 2023 06:00 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MBFrances O’Grady stepped down as the General Secretary of British Trades Union Congress at the end of 2022. She was the first woman to hold the post in TUC’s 154-year history. She is now a Labour peer in the House of Lords where she is committed to abolishing the unelected chamber. She joins Krishnan to talk about the history of the trade union movement, why she thinks workers are going on strike and what the government should be doing to support them and support for single parent...
Rick Rubin on working with Run DMC, The Strokes, Slayer and Johnny Cash and how to be an artist
January 13, 2023 05:00 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBRick Rubin is the legendary music producer who founded Def Jam records, one of the most important hip hop labels of the 80s. He has won nine Grammy awards and worked with some of the biggest artists of our time, to name but a few: Jay Z, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Strokes, Adele, Run DMZ and Slayer. He joins Krishnan to talk about his incredible career, as well as the launch of his new book ‘The Creative Act’. Produced by: Joe Lord Jones and Nina Hodgson Musi...
Ways to Change the World with Chatbot GPT
December 23, 2022 08:00ChatbotGPT is a new artificial intelligence programme designed to simulate human conversation and tackle complex questions. It's made by Open AI foundation, a tech-startup co-founded by Elon Musk, and it draws on text taken from a variety of sources on the internet and its creators say it has learned how to answer academic questions, and even sometimes admits when it's wrong. We've done an interview by putting questions to the chatbot, and then generating a voice for it using different sof...
Ways to Change the World with Chatbot GPT
December 23, 2022 08:00 - 13 minutes - 18.6 MBChatbotGPT is a new artificial intelligence programme designed to simulate human conversation and tackle complex questions. It's made by Open AI foundation, a tech-startup co-founded by Elon Musk, and it draws on text taken from a variety of sources on the internet and its creators say it has learned how to answer academic questions, and even sometimes admits when it's wrong. We've done an interview by putting questions to the chatbot, and then generating a voice for it using different sof...