Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd

Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd

Former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband and Sony Award-winning radio host Geoff Lloyd unearth big ideas that can change society for the better. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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April 28, 2024 34 mins

Vegetarian escalope at the Paris Olympics, energy nerds, The Boring Phone, Mid TV and your correspondence.


Join the Chatteroo! Email us with thoughts, questions and any fodder: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com



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Just in time for St George's Day, former Mili-gang members Marc Stears & Tom Baldwin join the Chatteroo to talk about their excellent new book 'England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country - And How To Set Them Straight'


Treat yourself to a copy - you deserve it! https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/england-9781526646231/

Email us: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com





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April 14, 2024 27 mins

Climate litigation in the 26 Cantons, the sense of smell in a digital world, Ed turns quizmaster, and your email.


Throw us a chatty bone! What would you like to hear in the Chatteroo? chat@cheerfulpodcast.com


PENGUINS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PwDFddpo4c

CAN A WILD ANIMAL MAKE YOUR HOUSE FEEL LIKE A HOME? https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/can-wild-animal-make-your-house-feel-home?fbclid=PAAabIRLX2FP_IHyk...

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April 7, 2024 29 mins

We lament the passing of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and delve into the Chatteroo postbag.


We'd love to hear from you - it's your Chatteroo, too: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com



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Neuroscientist and author Tali Sharot has joined the Chatteroo to talk about her excellent new book, 'Look Again - The Power of Noticing What Was Always There' (co-written with Cass R Sunstein.) It's the habituation sensation that's sweeping the nation.


Email us! chat@cheerfulpodcast.com



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March 24, 2024 25 mins

Includes a Presidential belch, life lessons from toddlers, the grace of a giraffe, and the Village People.


We need your email to fuel the Chatteroo! chat@cheerfulpodcast.com





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March 17, 2024 30 mins

The calm before the swarm, your email, and Ed shares his music lesson trauma.


Email us! chat@cheerfulpodcast.com


https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/14/theres-joy-i-havent-felt-for-years-how-i-got-hooked-on-the-piano-craze



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March 10, 2024 35 mins

A flurry of email prompted by last week's episode, plus cheerful nuggets from John Kerry's New York Times exit interview, the age at which jeans become inappropriate, and an Oscars-themed quiz.


Send us an email: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com


John Kerry: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/opinion/john-kerry-climate-change-china.html



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March 3, 2024 33 mins

Voicenotes, lessons from the New England Patriots, your email, and our best quiz yet.


Chat makes the world go round! We need your email - send us facts about hedgehogs, stories of sticking to your guns, rules for voice-note etiquette, ideas for quizzes, articles... anything you'd like to hear Ed turn his big ol' brain to:


chat@cheerfulpodcast.com





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February 25, 2024 26 mins

Sad owl news, happy hedgehog news, and an encounter in the Portcullis House cafeteria queue.


Plus, your email - send us more, please! chat@cheerfulpodcast.com


Liebreich: Net Zero Will Be Harder Than You Think – And Easier


PART 1: https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-net-zero-will-be-harder-than-you-think-and-easier-part-i-harder/

PART 2: https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-net-zero-will-be-harder-than-you-think-a...

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February 18, 2024 19 mins

Ed vs Mud, Geoff has the lung capacity of a slightly younger man, how to apologise, and a game of Know Your Station


Apologise Like You Mean It: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/well/live/apology-tips.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare


Where Did Our Strange Use of 'Like' Come From? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/opinion/casual-speech-like.html?searchResultPosition=2


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February 12, 2024 22 mins

Tracy Chapman, the age of a Prime Minister, how Marx and Engels communicated, plus more aggressive birds.


Seen anything you'd like us to talk about? Got a question? Someone you'd like to hear us talk to? Want to set us a quiz? chat@cheerfulpodcast.com



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February 4, 2024 30 mins

Donald Trump vs Taylor Swift, Ed vs wildfowl and your email.


Join the Chatteroo: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com



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January 28, 2024 25 mins

Où est le chatteroo? Voici le chatteroo!


Send us hamster facts, or anything else that's on your mind: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com



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January 21, 2024 24 mins

Life is a Chatteroo, old chum! Come to the Chatteroo.


Hello, and welcome to this week's catch-up, during which we discuss afternoon tea, including young voices in the climate conversation, a hat made of mushrooms, and workplace wellbeing and urban rewilding.


Send us an email: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com



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Brilliant climate scientist Emily Shuckburgh joins the Chatteroo to talk through the climate data for 2023.

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January 7, 2024 27 mins

Ed's new TV obsession leads to a chatteroo about therapy, including a mention of this twenty year-old essay by Nicholas Spice: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n01/nicholas-spice/i-must-be-mad


Plus! Meet our famous new sidekick...



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December 31, 2023 54 mins

Hap-py New Year! We welcome our first guest of the Chatteroo-era, and what a guest: This year's BBC Reith Lecturer, Professor Ben Ansell - political scientist and former teaching assistant to Ed Miliband (as Ed mentions 5,000 time during the conversation.)


Listen to/read Ben's Reith Lectures: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9

Buy Ben's book, 'Why Politics Fails': https://www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/product/why-politi...

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December 25, 2023 30 mins

A chatty accompaniment as your potatoes roast and your sprouts boil.


We wish you a cheerful Christmas!



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December 18, 2023 39 mins

Chatteroo, roo, roo! Push pineapple, shake the tree!


More Cop reflections, plus encouragment for Ed's paleontology ambition



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