John Bird

Midnight Meets With Colin Murray

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The founder and Editor in Chief of the Big Issue on the origins of the magazine, on facing homelessness, care, and juvenile detention before reaching adulthood, and on hosting tea parties for Big Issue vendors at the House of Lords. Midnight Meets is part of Colin Murray’s BBC Radio 5 Live show which is on Monday to Thursday, 10.30pm to 1am – or available whenever you want via the BBC Sounds app.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to tell you why I love podcasting.
0:04.5	I'm Sasha Johansson, I'm an Assistant Commissioner for the BBC and I work on making podcasts.
0:11.1	My real passion is discovering unbelievable unheard stories and working with the biggest
0:16.9	stars who can really bring those stories to life.
0:20.1	I love the whole process of making podcasts from the spark of an idea to hearing the final
0:26.0	edit.
0:27.0	There's nothing like it.
0:28.0	What makes BBC podcast special is that we're working for you, so whatever we commission
0:32.6	has to reflect the things that you care about and love, wherever you are in the UK.
0:37.0	So if you like this BBC podcast, there's so much more to discover.
0:40.6	Have a listen on BBC Sounds.
0:43.6	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:52.6	Welcome to this Midnight Mates podcast and tonight's is a really special one indeed.
0:58.3	It's an audience with Baron John Bird, a Londoner who faced homelessness, care, juvenile
1:03.8	detention and jail all before he reached adulthood.
1:07.7	His stories remarkable and through a set of circumstances that are quite hard to believe,
1:13.2	he ended up finding the big issue, which of course is the world's most distributed
1:17.6	street paper and not only offers homeless people a legitimate income source, but a connection
1:23.1	back to society, to humanity and to dignity.
1:27.1	It's celebrating 30 years and when you hear John now talk about how it's starting in the
1:32.4	chaos of it, that is quite an achievement to get there.
1:36.3	So enjoy this interview, one of my favourite Midnight Mates yet and it is with John Bird.
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