Senator Kirsten Gillibrand sits down with Jon Favreau to talk about Medicare for All, building a green economy, immigration, and more. (Previously released on January 22, 2019)
Start the Week - Life in the wilderness
We underestimate how difficult it is to live in remote areas, says travel writer Dan Richards. He tells Kirsty Wark how he trekked to high mountain huts and distant snowy cabins for his new book, Outposts. Richards followed in the footsteps of Virginia Woolf, Roald Dahl and Jack Kerouac, who all found inspiration in the wilderness. But just as Kerouac went temporarily mad living on a remote mountainside, so today’s tourists in the Scottish Highlands and Nordic isles underestimate “hard nature’s indifference”.
Icelandic model turned sheep farmer Heida Asgeirsdottir knows how challenging countryside life can be. After an early career as a model in New York, she returned to Iceland to take over her parents’ sheep farm in a region of volcanoes and elemental storms. But even this distant region needs modern power and infrastructure, and this means a new hydro-electric plant whose owners want to flood her farm.
A family feel stuck in the middle of nowhere in Chekhov’s searing play Three Sisters. Rebecca Frecknall is directing a new production at the Almeida Theatre, exploring the thwarted ambitions and dreams of a provincial Russian town. Sisters Irina, Olga and Masha long to return to Moscow, but become bogged down in dead-end jobs and trapped by mortgages and marriage.
Chekhov’s play could easily be set in a British town today, says Sarah O’Connor from the Financial Times. She looks at the stark problems facing our seaside resorts and post-industrial towns. In her Orwell Prize-winning study of Blackpool, she challenged the idea that our seaside towns lack aspiration and are destined to fail. Now she explains why terms like “the Left Behinds” are dangerously misleading.
Producer: Hannah Sander
The NewsWorthy - Easter Sunday Bombings, Impeachment Talk & Earth Day – Monday, April 22nd, 2019
The news to know for Monday, April 22nd, 2019!
Today, what to know about an Easter Sunday attack in Sri Lanka, and what Democrats are now saying about impeaching the president.
Plus: why this year's flu season is unique, Earth Day, and the new Netflix feature that could be coming...
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com to read more about any of the stories mentioned under the section titled 'Episodes' or see sources below...
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Easter Sunday Bombings: AP, CBS News, CNN, NYT
Ukraine President: BBC, Washington Post, NBC News
Impeachment Talk: The Hill, NBC News, AP, The Washington Post
Earth Day: EarthDay.org, Quartz
Venmo Credit Card: WSJ
Netflix Shuffle: Gizmodo, Deadline, TechCrunch
Beyonce + Netflix: Variety
Weekend Box Office: Variety, Deadline
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - Bicycle
The bicycle was to prove transformative. Cheaper than a horse, it freed women and young working class people to roam free. And the bike was the testing ground for countless improvements in manufacturing that would later lead to Henry Ford’s production lines. Tim Harford considers whether the bicycle has had its day, or whether it’s a technology whose best years lie ahead.
30 Animals That Made Us Smarter - Bat and visual aid
Click, click, click! The bat’s navigational skills could be life changing to people who are blind. Daniel Kish has mastered the art of echolocation and can navigate by tongue clicking. In this podcast, you can try too. With Patrick Aryee.
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Curious City - It’s Complicated: The University Of Chicago’s Relationship With Its Neighbors
Community activists and a university representative reflect on why the relationship has been difficult in the past and where it stands now.
Curious City - It’s Complicated: The University Of Chicago’s Relationship With Its Neighbors
Community activists and a university representative reflect on why the relationship has been difficult in the past and where it stands now.
The Gist - The International Hilarity of Loyiso Gola
On The Gist, sick children and dead ducks are pretty convincing.
In the interview, South African comedian Loyiso Gola is here to talk about his stand up special on Netflix, what it’s like performing in different countries, and why talking about the economy is so difficult for everyday people. Gola is performing at the Soho Playhouse until April 21, 2019.
In the Spiel, time for an early Antentwig.
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the memory palace - Rebroadcast: Origin Stories
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - The economic impact of mega sporting events
The Olympic Games and the football World Cup, two of the biggest events in the world which are each hosted every four years, are big business. And it costs a lot of money to host them, and a lot of the money comes from public funds. In this week?s edition of More or Less, we?ll be finding out ? after all the sporting activities are over ? how realistic were those economic predictions? Producer: Darin Graham Presenter: Charlotte McDonald Editor: Richard Vadon Picture Credit: Fang Guangming/Southern Metropolis Daily/VCG