Persistence: Takin' It to the Streets (Protein Man) and Underground (Charles Pearson)

Persistence: Takin’ It to the Streets (Protein Man) And Underground (Charles Pearson)

This episode has two stories on the theme of persistence.  When is persistence helpful and when is it just annoying?  When is persistence visionary and when is it obsession?

Meet Stanley Green, who most people know as Protein Man, spent 23 years walking up and down Oxford Street with a placard warning of the the dangers of protein. Stanley wasn’t an animal rights activist. He wasn’t concerned about the consequences of cholesterol. No. In Stanley’s view, protein led to passion, and passion was … bad. We’ll think about Stanley’s routines and his vision.

Then, we’ll switch tracks - literally - to something perhaps a bit more familiar, yet just as omnipresently persistent: The Tube. Love it, hate it, tolerate it, obsess over it, think what you will, but no one can deny its consistence and importance when it comes to maintaining the pulse of London. We will discuss the persistence of Charles Pearson, an activist who saw the potential of an underground railway as a path to achieving greater social equity, and glance at the disasters - both natural and human made - that have threatened its consistency over the years.

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