Welcome to 2022. We start this year with a fantastic episode and a really important question. What if we were to implement every solution that we already know exists in order to tackle the climate crisis the sense of urgency that an emergency s

From What If to What Next: Episode 45

Feb 24th, 2022 39m 34s

Here's Episode 45 for you, I hope you're going to love it. Meet Tim Gill and Alice Ferguson of Playing Out, brilliant guests for a vital discussion. Today we're talking about kids, and play and about the places where we live. Kids have almost

From What If to What Next: Episode 43

Feb 24th, 2022 37m 58s

Although not planned as some kind of 'Christmas Special', that's kind of what this episode is, so hopefully it will give you the opportunity to treat your imagination to something very special over the festive season. This episode will introduc

From What If to What Next: Episode 41

Feb 24th, 2022 39m 55s

Welcome to Episode 41 of 'From What If to What Next'. Powerful psychology is used to convince us, often subliminally, that we want and need things we previously never knew even existed. This is especially dangerous at a time when we need to urg

From What If to What Next: Episode 42

Feb 24th, 2022 44m 30s

The IPCC report that came out in mid-2021 said “unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5 degrees, or even 2 degrees, will be beyond reach”. “Immediate, rapid and

From What If to What Next: Episode 40

Feb 24th, 2022 39m 35s

I'm not going to say much about this episode, other than that it's incredible. We are exploring Afrofuturism, which has been variously described as “speculative fiction from the African diaspora”, “a way of imagining possible futures through a

From What If to What Next: Episode Thirty Nine

Jan 6th, 2022 37m 35s

Usually our podcasts aren’t that topical, you can hopefully listen to them at any time and they are still relevant. Today’s is not like that. It is being released just 6 days before the beginning of COP26, the vitally important climate summit h

From What If to What Next: Episode Thirty Seven

Jan 6th, 2022 45m 38s

The decline of insect populations around the world has been nothing short of terrifying. Last year I visited a school in an intensive wine-producing region in France, and suggested to the kids that they might build an insect hotel, only to be t

From What If to What Next: Episode Thirty Eight

Jan 6th, 2022 45m 38s

Everywhere, where you live included, has a patchwork of organisations of different sizes who are doing business and making things happen in a way that is not solely about the generation of profit, but about serving a larger social purpose. They

From What If to What Next: Episode Thirty Seven

Jan 6th, 2022 39m 57s

From What If to What Next: Episode 36

Nov 30th, 2021 1h 14m

Oh wow, you're in for a treat. Today we bring together Anthea Lawson, author of the fabulous new book 'The Entangled Activist' and Alastair McIntosh, author of 'Soul and Soil' and 'Riders on the Storm'. I usually try to constrain the conversati

From What If to What Next: Episode Thirty Five.

Nov 30th, 2021 44m 57s

Today’s episode of From What If to What Next is about care. Care has been very much on our minds of recent. COVID has highlighted how vitally important care is and yet how undervalued it is. It is so often seen as being the domain of women, and

From What If to What Next: Episode Thirty Four

Nov 30th, 2021 32m 6s

You are in for such a treat. This is one of the most thought-provoking and inspiring episodes of this podcast yet. It was my huge honour to be joined by Yumna Hussen and Lottie Cooke to discuss what a reimagined education system would be like.

From What If to What Next: Episode Thirty Three

Nov 30th, 2021 34m 20s

Here is the perfect accompaniment to the long summer days. Or the deluge. Or perhaps a bit of both. Today we are talking about travel. As many cities begin to actively take steps away from the dominance of cars, we are asking what might it be l

COP26 Day 3 conversations

Nov 4th, 2021 14m 56s

Here are some people I spoke to on my third day at COP26 in Glasgow. The voices you'll hear here at Dorothy Grace Guerrero, Head of Policy at Global Justice Now, Nick Dearden, Director at Global Justice Now, Rupert Read, former XR spokesperson,

COP26 Day One Conversations

Nov 2nd, 2021 10m 56s

Here are a few conversations I had with people while in Glasgow on my first day in the city for COP26. Here I talk to Bill McKibben, to community supported organiser Jacob Johns, to Anthony Diaz of the Newark Water Coalition and to Leila Salaza

Episode Thirty Nine: What if the leadership team for COP26 were 50% women?

Oct 23rd, 2021 37m 35s

Episode Thirty Two: What if the black imagination were valued as it should be?

Oct 21st, 2021 42m 56s

This episode is one of my favourites so far. This week we are exploring the black imagination, with two amazing guests. A little more about your guests: Natasha Marin is an antiracism consultant based in Seattle, specializing in communication

Episode Thirty One: What if the future were non-binary?

Sep 24th, 2021 44m 7s

This is such an incredible episode. One of those ones I had to go off and sit under a tree afterwards to absorb. Today we talk about gender. I grew up in a society that thought in terms of two genders, you were male or you were female. This was

Episode Thirty: What if the revolution was well facilitated?

Jul 15th, 2021 41m 1s

Episode Thirty. Wow. Whoever thought we'd get this far? Thank you so much for your support in making that possible. We have a delicious episode to mark this moment. We are joined today by Farzana Khan and by Looby Macnamara to explore 'What if

Episode Twenty Nine: What if we mastered the art of time travel?

Jun 29th, 2021 36m 57s

If you had a Time Machine, which year would you set the dial to? This episode is about time travel. More specifically, it is about using imaginary time travel, or futurism, or deep dreaming, or whatever you want to call it, in our activism. Why