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🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Hello! This week Ed and Geoff sat down with writer, journalist and now Professor of Sociology, Gary Younge. Gary talks about his new book ‘Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter’, and how his upbringing in a new town - Stevenage - led to a life telling stories from historic moments on both sides of the Atlantic, and what he can teach the next generation of journalists.
Plus: Both Ed and Geoff both went viral fungal this week. Did you see?
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1:25.1 | This is Reasons to Be cheerful with Ed Millivand and Jeff Lloyd. |
1:29.2 | Hello, are you okay? You look so bedraggled. |
1:32.1 | Oh, you cycled here in the rain this morning. |
1:34.9 | Yes, my lunch fell out of my rocks. I left my rocks I go and |
1:38.4 | you'd pack yourself some tomatoes in the sandwich, but the sandwich survived. |
1:42.9 | You managed to retrieve it. So you were jettisoning items as you cycled along. |
1:47.2 | Yeah, I think I might have lost a banana on the way. |
1:54.8 | And you tomato's got squashed? The tomatoes were right off, yeah. |
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