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Mar 11th, 2024 1h 19m

Clare Clifford recorded on 16/01/2024Clare Clifford, Mum, Yorkshire lass, Leeds dweller, business owner, expert speaker, lover of shoes, wild swimmer and expert in digital content and founder of Sunshine Digital.Clare is a Mum to three children

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Feb 29th, 2024 2h

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Feb 20th, 2024 1h 16m

Tracey Earl recorded on 30/01/2024Tracey Earl along with her husband Ian, runs We Are In Business a business networking group. We Are In Business helps solopreneurs and small and start-up business owners to grow their networks, gain new skills

Work Improves Things

Feb 14th, 2024 1h 29m

Andrew Firth recorded on 05/01/2024Andrew Firth has been involved with and working in digital since 2001, formerly as the MD of a design agency before setting up Ascensor in 2007. Over the past 16 years Ascensor has grown to become an award win

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Jan 31st, 2024 1h 20m

Marketa Dolezalova recorded on 25/09/2023Marketa Dolezalova is an academic researcher who studies migration, work and inequality. She is herself a migrant and worked in minimum wage jobs after moving to the UK, before returning to higher educat

Work is Finding New Solutions

Jan 31st, 2024 1h 36m

Sal Poyser recorded on 08/11/23Sal Poyser is an eco-entrepreneur that has a love for our planet and a burning desire to make a difference, she co-founded Adored Earth as a platform to inspire people to make small practical steps to reduce their

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Jan 31st, 2024 2h 5m

Alexis Percival recorded on 18/10/23Alexis Percival is the Environmental and Sustainability Manager for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust based in Yorkshire, UK. She started as the first Sustainability Manager for an ambulance service in th

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Jan 15th, 2024 1h 45m

Keith Madeley recorded on 06/11/2023Keith Madeley (AKA Mr Yorkshire (you’ll find out why in the interview)) left Grammar School at 16 and joined British Rail as a Clerk in Bradford. 2 years later Keith was moving to London for a promotion and t

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Jan 11th, 2024 1h 43m

Chris Joy recorded on 25/10/2023Chris Joy is a Project Lead at a construction and building management company but, that doesn’t tell you anything about his work or even his many previous roles. Chris has done many 'off the wall' roles, some of

Work is Fantastic

Jan 2nd, 2024 1h 27m

RJ Barker recorded on 05/09/2023RJ Barker is a critically acclaimed and award-winning author of fantasy fiction. He won the 2020 British Fantasy Society (BFS) Robert Holdstock award for Best Novel for his fourth novel, The Bone Ships.His debut

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Dec 31st, 2023 1h 45m

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Oct 21st, 2023 1h 55m

Paul Rutherford recorded on 12/06/2023Paul Rutherford lives in Garforth and grew up in Headingly. Studying design at York St John and then staying on in York for a few years until meeting his now wife, who lived in Leeds. At the same time as th

Work is a Mystery

Oct 19th, 2023 1h 47m

Richard Henry recorded on 13/07/2023Richard Henry is a devoted father of two and husband of one. He’s of Yorkshire heritage but has ventured further afield (working in the London area for over 10 years) and travelling abroad for both business a

Work Must Be Proofed

Oct 13th, 2023 1h 20m

Craig Smith recorded on 25/09/2023Craig Smith from CRS Editorial is a double award-winning editor, proof-reader and copywriter with 27 years' experience. Craig is also a Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading

Work Goes On Beyond Us

Oct 8th, 2023 1h 57m

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Oct 7th, 2023 1h 44m

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Oct 3rd, 2023 43m 43s

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Oct 3rd, 2023 1h 8m

Becky Holderness recorded on 14/03/23Becky Holderness is a content writer, copywriter and trainee script editor who's trying to break into her first job in TV. She's worked in a variety of roles over the past few years, including as a sales ass

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Sep 30th, 2023 1h 47m

Dr Rory Padfield and Dr Alexandra Dales recorded on 30/03/23Dr Rory Padfield is an interdisciplinary social scientist and a lecturer in Sustainability and Business. In his research he engages with the broad themes of supply chains and natural r

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Sep 30th, 2023 2h 21m

Dr Amanda Bretman recorded on 28/02/23Dr Amanda Bretman is Associate Professor in Behavioural Ecology in the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University of Leeds. Dr Bretman’s expresses only her own views in this interview and not those of

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Sep 22nd, 2023 55m 49s

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Sep 11th, 2023 1h 41m

Amy Bennett recorded on 07/02/23Amy Bennett runs Chunk Cookies. Chunk firmly believe two things. One is that vegan food can taste better than its animal product alternatives, and two, there is a way to make the sustainable option the cheapest.

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Sep 5th, 2023 1h 32m

Sarah Jayne Young recorded on 24/03/23Sarah Jayne Young was always driven to a career in the arts, she went from working in a record store to a record company and then becoming self-employed, producing art shows, managing bands and artists and