Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff

Who’s afraid of the kleptocrats?: cleaning up corruption

Hello! You may not know it, but for decades Britain has enabled the dodgy dealings of the world's...

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Reading Revival: why the bookshop is back

Hello! Have you ever dreamed of running your own bookshop? We are cheerful to report that the...

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Bridging the divides: the world of modern diplomacy

Hello! Every day, remarkable acts of diplomacy are happening around the world to bring us one...

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Gary Younge Interview: Mandela, Trump, Obama and Black Lives Matter

Hello! This week Ed and Geoff sat down with writer, journalist and now Professor of Sociology,...

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Bernie Sanders interview: baseball, capitalism and mitten memes

Hello! While we generally aim for cheerfulness, it's also ok to be a little angry too. Senator...

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Full steam ahead: the resurgence of international train travel

Hello! As you wearily stood in a queue for a flight that was four hours delayed, having been hit...

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Laying down the law: can litigation hold climate culprits to account?

Hello! Climate change litigation has come on a long way since the 2000 blockbuster film Erin...

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Beyond the nepo baby: the deep drivers of social mobility

Hello! Nepo-babies are a new-fangled term but the issue of social mobility goes much deeper…in...

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‘It’s not weird or morbid’: how confronting death can give us hope

Hello! This week we're speaking to comedian, actor and author Cariad Lloyd who's on a crusade to...

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Should you fight for your right to party?

Hello! This week on Reasons to be Cheerful Ed and Geoff are Going Out Out and talking about the...

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Is this the future of humanity?

Hello! This week we’re talking about ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence language model that’s...

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How to talk to a climate denier

Hello! This week we’re talking about climate misinformation and how we tackle it. Mis- and...

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How to fix our education system

Hello! New year, new term and this week Ed and Geoff are going back to school. Too little has...

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Owning the future

Hello and happy 2023! Normal service will resume next Monday but in the meantime we’ve got a...

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The Reasons to be Cheerful Top 10 of 2022

It’s been another calm year for the history books: four Chancellors, three prime ministers, two...

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2022 Christmas Crackers with Ed and Geoff

Hello! We’ve decked the loft with boughs of holly and after two years, Ed and Geoff are finally...

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Social workers for social justice

Hello! When we hear about social workers it's usually because something terrible has happened....

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How do we fix our broken economy?

Hello! This week Ed and Geoff are on location to chat with two big brains who have been part of...

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Nothing about us without us

Hello! This week we're talking about disability activism: its past, present and future. Disabled...

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It’s cheaper to save the planet than destroy it

Hello! Ed's just come back from COP27 where he was roving with his mic. He spoke to some experts...

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