One Love One Planet

How would you like to help govern the country, be given a decent salary for two years, and then get your job back afterwards?  This is the plan of the Sortition Foundation, to replace the House of Lords with a House of Citizens.  Rich Rippin explains all. Produced and presented by Penny Southgate. This podcast is taken from the live show which was broadcast on Tuesday 15th November 2022 between 11...

Writer Lia Leendertz talks to us about the newly published 2023 Edition of the Almanac: how it began, what it contains, next year's theme, and the artists.  These could be collector's items in a few years time! Produced and presented by Penny Southgate. This podcast is taken from the live show which was broadcast on Tuesday 1st November 2022 between 11am and midday on BCfm Radio. Featuring Lia Lee...

Produced and presented by Penny Southgate. This podcast is taken from the live show which was broadcast on Tuesday 25th October 2022 between 11am and midday on BCfm Radio. Featuring: Georgia Elliott Smith, Sustainability Consultant and Engineer  Chloe Naldrett Theatre Producer and Campaigner CONTENT 20" - Coca Cola Petition to remove company as Sponsor at COP27 22'10 - Blue Earth Summit 31'56 - Ec...

Produced and presented by Penny Southgate. This podcast is taken from the live show which was broadcast on Tuesday 27th September 2022 at 11am on BCfm Radio. What if we were able to spend 99% of our time taking action for the planet, rather than 99% of our time trying to figure out how to do it?  This is what Ellie Young wants people to be able to do, with her startup Common Action, a global knowl...

Produced and presented by Penny Southgate. This podcast is taken from the live show which was broadcast on Tuesday 4th October 2022 at 11am on BCfm Radio. Linley Lewis talks about the annual Blue Earth Summit held in Bristol, bringing together the outdoors and business (big and small), and a dream to make the world a better place.   Plus extracts from three past episodes of OLOP broadcast in the s...

Produced and presented by Penny Southgate. This podcast is taken from the live show which was broadcast on Tuesday 27th September 2022 at 11am on BCfm Radio. Humans have created a technosphere which is severely damaging the other spheres of Earth, including the atmosphere and the hydrosphere. Cities are a big part of this, and right now, are parasites on Earth.  How can cities evolve to become sup...

Produced and presented by Penny Southgate. This podcast is taken from the live show which was broadcast on Tuesday 20th September 2022 at 11am on BCfm Radio. Disability must not be forgotten when it comes to tackling the climate crisis; disabled people need to be at the heart of the conversation. Featuring: Emma Geen from the Bristol Equality Disability Forum Eco-Tip provided by Chloe Naldrett - T...

Produced and presented by Penny Southgate. This podcast is taken from the live show which was broadcast on Tuesday 13th September 2022 at 11am on BCfm Radio. Bristol Pay - a new economy for a city, one where value is about so much more than just money!  This is about a paradigm shift in our economic thinking. Featuring: Diana Finch, Managing Director of Bristol Pay @Bristol_Pay Eco-Tip provided by...

Produced and presented by Penny Southgate. This podcast is taken from the live show which was broadcast on Tuesday 6th September 2022 at 11am on BCfm Radio. Becca and Eva talk about the campaign to get a stretch of the Avon river in Bristol awarded Designated Water Bathing Status.  There are only two other rivers in the whole of the UK which have DWBS.  Featuring: Becca Blease, Environmental Campa...

Produced and presented by Penny Southgate. This podcast is taken from the live show which was broadcast on Tuesday 30th August 2022 at 11am on BCfm Radio. Why is there so much inaccurate or simply bad quality reporting on global warming?  Why do newspapers continue to perpetuate climate denialism and climate delay?  Elizabeth Mizon has been looking into this question. Featuring: Elizabeth Mizon, J...

Produced and presented by Penny Southgate. This podcast is taken from the live show which was broadcast on Tuesday 23rd August 2022 at 11am on BCfm Radio. Featuring: Mary-Rose Clarke, Person-Centred Counsellor and Embodied-Relational Therapist Lola Tinsley, Philosophy Graduate and Creative. Also Linda Aspey, Executive and Team Coach and Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, and Chloe Naldrett, Theatre Pro...

Penny Southgate presents One Love One Planet.  This is the podcast edition of the live show which was broadcast at 11am on Tuesday 16th August 2022 at BCfm Radio in Bristol. In this programme Penny talks to Mike Abrahams about his life as an aeronautical engineer with the European Space Agency, and his journey to founding Wild Oats, the first natural foods and zero waste shop in Bristol, back in 1...

Penny Southgate talks to Film Director Sasha Snow whose latest film features Roger Hallam in The Troublemaker.  This podcast is taken from the live show broadcast on 15th February 2022 on BCfm Radio.   MUSIC Pink Glasses by Veter Psalms by Amick Cutler

Producer/Presenter Sam Sayer. Featuring David Mitchell from Christian Climate Action and Rev John White from Hazelnut Community Farm, exploring faith, community and activism. CONTENT 46"  David Mitchell  16'  David Attenborough Speech 17'33"  Rev John White MUSIC Pink Glasses by Veter Wavey Fortune by Liamback I Found Peace When You Found Me by Sean Williams This podcast is taken from the live sho...

Producer and Presenter: Penny Southgate Penny is joined by BCfm Presenter Sam Sayer (who will be taking over One Love One Planet from three weeks from next week!) and Founder of Faith And Betty (natural botanical skincare range), Faith Morton to talk all things eco in the bathroom. Plus news of Jennifer Kowalski, environmental activist and Just Stop Oil and Christian Climate Action.   CONTENT: 15"...

Producer and Presenter: Penny Southgate Rob Porteous, Counsellor and Extinction Rebellion activist, talks about the movement's regenerative culture, a profound and important part of the movement. Andy Shepherd, Principal Scientific Adviser to the European Space Agency Cryosat Elwaque Benedict, Founder of Techstyle Generation. CONTENT 21" Andy Shepherd 6'08"  Elwaque Benedict 11'14" Rob Porteous MU...

(Content Warning: Please note that this podcast contains upsetting information about rescues at sea) Producer and Presenter: Penny Southgate Brendan Woodhouse is a firefighter.  In his spare time he volunteers with the charity Sea-Watch, which rescues refugees and asylum seekers at sea in the Mediterranean.  Here he gives us a fierce and passionate testimony about his experiences, and his views on...

Producer and Presenter: Penny Southgate Christina Wheeler talks about her podcast series: River Journey - The Frome, where she explores the river from its source up in the Cotswolds to the final part of its journey into Bristol.  Conversation flows along the way, with lots of different people connected to the river, on the subject of wildlife, history and climate change.  Plus Muhammad Abdulrahim...

Producer and Presenter: Penny Southgate Fast fashion is killing the planet, and Amelia Twine, the Founder of Sustainable Fashion Week is part of the revolution to stop it!   Plus we hear the impassioned voices of Just Stop Oil Protestors, and learn about the Clifton Wildflower meadow from West Bristol Climate Action. News: 13" Just Stop Oil: 4' Sustainable Fashion Week and Amelia Twine: 12'08" Cli...

Producer and Presenter: Penny Southgate Conversation with Caroline Dennett is at 12'20 minutes in. On 25th May 2022, Caroline Dennett posted a video of her resignation speech from Shell UK, calling them out on their lack of action to combat global warming.  Her speech went viral.  Here she is to talk about why she did it now, and the truth about Shell's activity. 52" News 5'13" Shell Demo Audio 7'...

Producer and Presenter: Penny Southgate Do you have any idea of what carbon literacy is?  If not, find out all about it with co-founder of the Carbon Literacy Project, Phil Korbel.   Fridays For Future Uganda founder Hilda Flavia Nakabuye delivers an impassioned plea to the Global North, and we also hear from Jo Musker Sherwood about the Rest of Activism.  Also featuring Lucy Meredith (the first c...

Producer and Presenter: Penny Southgate We were joined in the studio by Roy Kareem, Director of Bright Green Future this week, telling us about his time as a Black and Green Ambassador, and his research into untold stories of green spaces in Bristol.  We received an update from Nikhil Sharma from India, plus some news headlines, (including reasons to be cheerful) and whats on in Bristol. PROGRAMME...

Producer and Presenter: Penny Southgate Caleb Parkin introduces us to queer ecology and recites poems from his latest collection 'This Fruiting Body'.  MUSIC: Sidewalk Shuffle by Muns Labanero by Kaspian Kornelis The Unfolding by Sean Williams Dreams by Seth Ophengon This programme was originally broadcast live on BCfm Radio on Tuesday 25th January 2022.

Producer/Presenter: Penny Southgate. Featuring Day Sanchez, a school psychologist from New York introducing us to the Solarpunk movement, and Xeena Cooper from the Dodos Cricket Club on Time To Declare, a series of talks on how cricket is being affected by climate breakdown. This podcast features extracts from the live show broadcast on Tuesday 10th May 2022. PROGRAMME CONTENT 15" Day Sanchez  11'...

This is a trailer and a taster of what's to come!  The first full podcast will be uploaded soon.