Restid

Restid

When shared transport becomes a lifestyle. Restid explores the stories of journeys, the theatre of travel, and how people use their travel time.

Episodes

November 11, 2024 11 mins

..come to those who wait.  Really? Realising the noble ambition of appreciation, ignoring the game of blame and making a difference instead. The victim is not the problem.

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Helping people explore and smile. The birthday travel initiative. Dogs, cats and conversation triggers and the use of opera to counter antisocial behaviour.

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October 29, 2024 11 mins

Could home deliveries and public transport play a bigger role in communities, tackling loneliness and providing a new generation of third places?

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October 21, 2024 12 mins

Bing Crosby once sang “We’re busy going nowhere, Isn’t it just a crime”. 

Thank goodness we now know the answer to congestion and where we're going.  The bumper stickers will help us more than the inflatable dolls.  And, though Robert Moses failed, an 82-year-old hitchhiker continues to confirm the innate kindness of most human beings. 

Enjoy you...

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October 14, 2024 12 mins

A glimpse of transport perfection and rapid transformations.  The laws of garden sheds, sartorial elegance and bohemian excitement.  We can choose to be a participant, an observer, or simply ignore the theatre of travel around us.  The choice remains ours. 

Enjoy your travels.

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October 7, 2024 12 mins

Making small talk and breaking bread with strangers. It can make both parties much happier.  Reach out, show interest, respect and be kind. The legend, and sound, of carrots and the ejection seat.

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September 30, 2024 12 mins

Creating invisible transport, the value of local knowledge, seeing the familiar from a new perspective and discovering the unfamiliar. Socrates said "the unexamined life is not worth living", perhaps the unexamined route is not worth taking.

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June 10, 2024 12 mins

The challenges of transparency and the four Yorkshiremen. Car-free roads and the humanity of fellow travellers. Catching a baby and the woman laughing on a train. The final episode before the summer break to observe and meet  listeners.  Look out for the coming meditation recordings.

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June 3, 2024 11 mins

Gaining an unfair advantage on court and balancing on a bus. The strange case of Entrance Proximity Compulsion (EPC). Diamond Michael, Steve Jobs and the isolation challenge.

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May 27, 2024 11 mins

David Hockney's "Bigger and Closer" and the state of 'sonder', in which each of us is at once a hero, a supporting cast member and an extra in overlapping stories.  With Sir Anthony Hopkins, John Steinbeck, the Magna Carta and the birthday problem. The joy and surprises of bus and train travel.

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May 21, 2024 10 mins

Starting is easier than stopping.  Agents of change, building trust, mutual respect and civility on the platforms of shared, public transport and transit.  As Churchill once said "Why do we regard history as of the past and forget we are making it?"

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May 14, 2024 10 mins

Safe and secure with strangers, surprising adventures, parking in a bus lane, the joys of the Far North Line (https://www.fofnl.org.uk/) and remember, there are more of us.

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May 6, 2024 10 mins

The creative ways that people use to make and save money, riding on buses and trains. This episode includes a magic bus, a convent of arthritic nuns, parking in Amsterdam, John LeCarre, Duke Ellington and more.  The opportunities to explore and earn are there to be grasped.

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April 30, 2024 11 mins

Productive time vs Elapsed time and overcoming cabin fever.  

It's not just how long a trip takes but what you can do with the time the trip lasts. 

The Man in Seat 61 and living, studying and playing on trains.

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April 22, 2024 13 mins

Nightingales

Wales and Japan

Rolling Stones

The Cliffhanger

Romance

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April 19, 2024 5 mins

Feedback from listeners and questions answered

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April 16, 2024 13 mins

Feel happier, more engaged, and learn new things - speak with a stranger.

Bus queues in Finland.

Insecurity and social interactions.

Brief Encounter

Strangers as trusted confidantes.

Bus drivers, the most thanked workers in Britain.

Autonomous vehicles, driverless cars and carless drivers.

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April 9, 2024 11 mins

Observing with sagacity

How American men cross their legs

Dealing with annoying travellers and drivers

The reluctance of the English to interact with fellow travellers, and the risk of being viewed as "drunk, drugged or deranged".

Amtrak community dining

 

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April 9, 2024 4 mins

Introducing the Restid podcast

Embracing a lifestyle choice

Why Restid?

 

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