Latest Digital wellbeing Podcast Episodes
Vex King
It's Complicated - April 12, 2021 01:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsVex King returns as It's Complicated's first ever returning guest; to talk about his new book Healing is the New High and to tell us how healing ourselves from pain and trauma - developing better self-awareness as a result - is going to help all of us develop a healthier, happier, relationship w...
Cori Crider
It's Complicated - April 05, 2021 01:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsLawyer and activist Cori Crider, Co-Founder of non-profit Foxglove, is holding Big Tech to account: for their treatment of their own workers - social media and the digital world's factory floor. Find out how Foxglove is making tech accountable and fighting for fair pay and working conditions for...
Marisa Bate
It's Complicated - March 29, 2021 01:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsJournalist Marisa Bate gave up Instagram five years ago after she started to question what she was getting out of it. The experience has been entirely positive, even though she works in the media where many say it's impossible to be without social media. We talk about the navel-gazing and self a...
Craig Newmark
It's Complicated - March 22, 2021 02:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsFounder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, US billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, talks about his early days founding the website that has become part of the cultural fabric of the internet, and his philanthropy with its emphasis on promoting trustworthy journalism to fight the war against d...
Pat Allerton
It's Complicated - March 15, 2021 02:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPat Allerton, vicar of St Peter's church in Notting Hill in London, chats about how he earned the nickname 'the portable priest' in the pandemic after his cycling services - bringing a hymn and a prayer to lockdown London - earned him a global following. And we talk about faith both on and off s...
Amika George
It's Complicated - March 08, 2021 02:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAmika George, British activist and campaigner, joins for the 50th episode of 'It's Complicated' on International Women's Day. She's talking about her new book 'Make it Happen: How to be an Activist', and how social media has been the gateway and catalyst which enabled her at 17, to found her cha...
Tim Harford
It's Complicated - March 01, 2021 02:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsTim Harford, economist, broadcaster and author, is helping us make sense of the numbers, statistics, graphs and charts that are increasingly overwhelming us on social media. He explains why we need to calm down when we look at them, and he shows us how to distinguish between those who brandish t...
Martha Lane Fox
It's Complicated - February 22, 2021 02:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsMartha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, joins Tanya to talk about her pioneering career in digital; from the earliest days of the dot.com boom when she co-founded Lastminute.com in 1998; through her work as government Digital Champion from 2009-2013, spearheading the digitisation of governme...
Andrew Cotter
It's Complicated - February 15, 2021 02:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsSports broadcaster Andrew Cotter turned his skills in lockdown to hilarious and heartwarming commentary on the antics of his two labradors, Olive and Mabel. His videos went viral and have been watched over 80 million times, with his book 'Olive, Mabel and Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Go...
John Barnes
It's Complicated - November 30, 2020 02:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIconic Liverpool and England footballer John Barnes joins us for the Series 5 finale to talk about discrimination both on the field and off, using Twitter to call out racism, his admiration for Marcus Rashford's work in the pandemic and his exhortation to young footballers with their huge social...
Money and Tech with Anne Boden
It's Complicated - November 23, 2020 02:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe Woman Who Set Up a Bank, Anne Boden, joins us this week to talk about the incredible journey she's been on to found one of Britain's most successful new banks; mobile-only bank Starling. She chats about Olivia Coleman playing her in the film of her best-selling book, the billionaire who flew...
Finn Beales
It's Complicated - November 16, 2020 02:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPhotographer Finn Beales joins us to chat about being an early adopter of social media, how he so nearly made a fortune creating filters for Instagram, his journey to becoming a celebrated photographic storyteller, the power of his connection with nature and why we all need to go for a walk more...
Grief and Loss Online
It's Complicated - November 09, 2020 02:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsEmily Cummin, CEO and co-Founder of Untangle, the social network for mourners, joins us to talk about why we don't like talking about our own death, but why it's so important that we do. And she discusses the digital legacies we will all leave behind, and how to make our wishes about those clear...
Laura Bates on Misogyny
It's Complicated - November 02, 2020 02:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe second of two episodes timed around the US Election, looking at the subject of speech online and how we disagree and debate. Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project joins us this week to talk about the shocking research behind her new book 'Men Who Hate Women'; underground online...
Toby Young on Cancel Culture
It's Complicated - October 26, 2020 02:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe first of two episodes around the US Election looking at the subject of free speech and how we disagree and debate online. Toby Young is on the podcast this week talking about his personal experience of being cancelled in 2018, why he set up the Free Speech Union to help others who have been ...
Amy Hart and Mimi Missfit on Digital Detox
It's Complicated - October 19, 2020 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsLove Island's Amy Hart and YouTuber Mimi Missfit took seven teens away on a week-long digital detox to explore the impact on their mental health. Tanya chats to them about the week, how the experience impacted not only the teens but also the two of them, and asks about their own relationships wi...
Racism Online with Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
It's Complicated - August 31, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHave more racist incidents taken place online because of lockdown? Or is it that we are more aware of them, and reporting them more? Have social platforms created an environment which rewards and encourages racist behaviour? Or does the digital world just reflect back at us the state of our offl...
Women and Tech with Prof Sue Black OBE
It's Complicated - August 24, 2020 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhy is the relationship between women and tech so complicated? With women's contributions to tech often hidden from history, girls are still less likely to choose a career in tech than their male counterparts. And, as users, the experience of tech - especially social media - is often much more c...
Sleep and Screens with Dr Guy Leschziner
It's Complicated - August 17, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat's the truth about sleep and technology? Are screens turning us into a generation of insomniacs, with nocturnal tech habits depriving of us hours of rest every night? Or are there some uses of screens which might actually help us in our quest to get a better night's sleep? Dr Guy Leschziner,...
Clicktivism with Athena Kugblenu
It's Complicated - August 10, 2020 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIf we want to be activists, is clicktivism the way to go? Should we be rallying around hashtags and campaigns online, raising awareness of causes we care about? Is there something more meaningful we could be doing - or should we do both? Athena Kugblenu joins us to talk about political activism ...
Making Better Connections with Prof Juliana Schroeder
It's Complicated - August 03, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHow can we make better connections? Professor Juliana Schroeder has made her career out of studying social interaction and social connection, and how the way we use technology can both hinder and help us communicate. In a world where we're increasingly connecting via screens, what are the 'dos' ...
Jack Edwards and Vee Kativhu on The StudyTube Project
It's Complicated - July 27, 2020 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe're joined this week by YouTubers Jack Edwards and Vee Kativhu from The Study Tube Project. Described as 'The Avengers of YouTube education', The StudyTube Project was set up as a rapid response to pandemic school and university closures by some of YouTube's biggest learning celebrities - aka ...
Emily Bell on Fake News
It's Complicated - July 20, 2020 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsProfessor of Professional Practice at the Columbia School of Journalism, and Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Emily Bell joins us to talk about what the tech industry is doing to the news industry. With technology increasingly rewarding bad behaviour in politics and encouraging...
Fake News with Prof Emily Bell
It's Complicated - July 20, 2020 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsProfessor of Professional Practice at the Columbia School of Journalism, and Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Emily Bell joins us to talk about what the tech industry is doing to the news industry. With technology increasingly rewarding bad behaviour in politics and encouraging...
Memes and Mental Health
It's Complicated - July 13, 2020 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDave Tarnowski, founder of the hugely popular Nick Cave and the Bad Memes Instagram account, joins us to chat about why memes can be so positive for mental health and how, in running it, he's now developed into an informal internet therapist for his huge following. Follow Dave's two memes accou...
Grace Beverley on Inclusivity
It's Complicated - July 06, 2020 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsEntrepreneur Grace Beverley, founder and CEO of three multi-million pound fitness businesses at the age of 23, Forbes 30 Under 30 and Young Entrepreneur of the year, joins us to talk about inclusivity and diversity in the fitness industry and how she's carving out her own path of what business s...
Grace Beverley
It's Complicated - July 06, 2020 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsEntrepreneur Grace Beverley, founder and CEO of three multi-million pound fitness businesses at the age of 23, Forbes 30 Under 30 and Young Entrepreneur of the year, joins us to talk about inclusivity and diversity in the fitness industry and how she's carving out her own path of what business s...
Pete Reed on Resilience
It's Complicated - June 28, 2020 17:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThree times gold medal winning Olympic champion, rower Pete Reed, launches Series 4 of the podcast with an inspiring chat about challenge, change and resilience and the athlete mindset that is helping him rise to the biggest challenge of his life. Follow Pete on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/...
Olympian Pete Reed OBE on Resilience
It's Complicated - June 28, 2020 17:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThree times gold medal winning Olympic champion, rower Pete Reed, launches Series 4 of the podcast with an inspiring chat about challenge, change and resilience and the athlete mindset that is helping him rise to the biggest challenge of his life. Follow Pete on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/...
James McVey
It's Complicated - April 26, 2020 22:31 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsLead guitarist with The Vamps, James McVey, ends Season 3 of the podcast with a chat about his work on cyberbullying and online safety, as well as opening up about how he's coped with managing a huge online social media presence in the 10 years since The Vamps were formed. Follow James on Twitt...
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