Express Change

Here's another break from our regular half-hour episodes, with another outtake from a previous interview. When we interviewed Rou Reynolds for episode seven, he spoke some very honest truths about how to cope with the realities of both activism and the state of our world. We couldn't really fit those things into the flow of the full episode, so here they are as a short bonus track. Also, t...

Rou Reynolds is the frontman and keyboardist of the band Enter Shikari. Formed in 1999 in St. Albans outside London, it found its current name and line-up in 2003. They have released seven albums so far, the latest being "A Kiss for the Whole World" — it came out on April 21st 2023 and turned into their first number 1 album. It's not easy to describe the musical style of Enter Shikar...

This week, we're taking a little break from our regular half-hour episodes, to throw a little outtake into the mix. Marina Gattás and Martin Oetting — your hosts here on Express Change — have found that sometimes, the tables get turned: Our guests ask them something. In the regular episodes, we tend to edit these bits out — our focus is on the guests, not on the hosts. But every once in a whil...

Pushpanath (“Push”) Krishnamurthy is a climate activist and humanitarian who has been walking to create awareness about climate justice for years. He is originally from Bengaluru, India, and has spent three decades working in development, with organisations such as Oxfam and Save the Children. His first walk was from Oxford to Copenhagen, to raise awareness on climate change in 2009. He has walked...

Katherine Trebeck is a political economist, writer and advocate for economic systems change. She is a co-founder of WEAll, short for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, as well as WEAll Scotland, its Scottish hub. She also initiated the Wellbeing Economy Governments initiative, in which the governments of Scotland, Iceland, New Zealand, Wales and Finland work together on creating wellbeing economies....

Katja Iversen is the CEO of the "Museum for the United Nations - UN Live", an unconventional, borderless museum connecting people everywhere to the work and values of the United Nations. They work with popular culture players and platforms in film, music, gaming, arts and sports, curating cultural experiences and creating global connections through dialogues — to foster a stronger sense...

Mapumba Cilombo is a singer-songwriter, storyteller, music producer and a voice for wellbeing based in Cape Town, South Africa. He was born in Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the year 2000, Mapumba released his first album and sold thousands of copies out of his car trunk. Since then his catalog has grown to many singles and albums, and he has toured in cities across the US, Puerto...

Tim Jackson is an ecological economist and playwright. Since 2016 he has been Director of the Center for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). CUSP is a multidisciplinary research center which aims to understand the economic, social and political dimensions of sustainable prosperity. Its guiding vision for prosperity is one in which people everywhere have the capability to flourish a...

Shirley Rodriguez brings twenty years of experience in media production to her role as President & Creative Director of "Create the Remarkable", a New York-based, minority owned production company. With "Create the Remarkable", Shirley has been able to combine her joy for storytelling, her attention to detail and imagery, her background in marketing, and her history in comm...

A brief introduction to our new podcast! Art has an incredible influence on how we feel and think about the world, whether it's film, music, or storytelling. We explore how the arts can help us work towards true sustainability and against democratic, societal and ecological breakdown. In this teaser, you'll need only six minutes to meet the incredible range of people we've interviewed...