Synopsis
Vicky Frost, the Guardian’s deputy membership editor, will be working with Guardian podcast producers Stuart Silver and Rowan Slaney to bring you a monthly podcast full of conversation with our members, readers, journalist, and experts, to discuss the big news issues of the moment alongside the topics you feel are under-reported or deserve more attention. Most importantly, we’ll be featuring your questions. You can submit questions to me via email at weneedtotalkabout@theguardian.com. Do please leave us your phone number, whichever way you send your question – we might like to give you a ring, chew it over, and record it. For those who dive straight into the comments on the website, or go first to the letters section, this idea that readers have interesting and illuminating contributions to make to the Guardian will hardly be news. But through Membership we’ve been looking for ways to amplify Members’ voices, give them more active participation in the Guardian, and bring journalists and readers closer together
Episodes
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We need to talk about protest – Guardian Members' exclusive podcast
28/02/2017 Duration: 57minFrom protests against President Trump and Brexit, to Romanian anti-corruption demonstrations and the people defending threats to local libraries – we appear to be living in a new age of resistance. But how can we maintain momentum? And what can we really achieve? In this edition of our podcast for Guardian Members we discuss the power and danger of protest
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Michael Chabon on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – books podcast
10/02/2017 Duration: 40minThe Pulitzer prize-winning novelist looks back on a modern classic at a Guardian book club event
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We need to talk about climate change – Guardian Members' exclusive podcast
02/02/2017 Duration: 49minWhat will a Trump presidency mean for the future of the planet? In the first of our new monthly podcasts for Guardian members, in which expert panelists and journalists tackle your queries on the subjects you consider most pressing, we consider climate change policy in the Trump era. What should we expect – and what can we do about it?
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The rise of Donald Trump - Guardian Live event podcast
13/12/2016 Duration: 01h32minIt is an election result that has left the US and the rest of the world reeling, that saw a man with no record in any political office, a reality TV star who has boasted about sexually assaulting women, become the 45th US president. The Guardian’s special projects editor Mark Rice-Oxley and a panel of columnists discuss the reasons for Trump’s success and the Democrats’ failure
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Utopia 2016: how to die a good death – Guardian Live event podcast
01/11/2016 Duration: 01h28minBy turning away from death, by ignoring its inevitability, are we making our death more distressing for ourselves and for our loved ones? Giles Fraser and an expert panel shed some light on the positive things that can happen when we face this entirely natural part of life
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Can the Labour party rebuild and win? Guardian Live event – audio
26/10/2016 Duration: 01h38minThe Guardian’s political editor Anushka Asthana alongside Paul Mason, Rafael Behr, Hugh Muir, Polly Toynbee and John Harris reflect on the tumultuous battle for the heart of the Labour party and ask whether Labour regain power?
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The Guardian Live interview with Ed Balls and Jonathan Freedland
04/10/2016 Duration: 01h17minFrom the Labour conference in Liverpool, Ed Balls talks to the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland about his memoir, his views on Labour’s survival and whether he’ll return to politics after Strictly Come Dancing
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Gary Younge: Another day in the death of America - Guardian Live event
03/10/2016 Duration: 01h25minOn an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. At a Guardian Members’ event Gary Younge discusses his 18-month investigation into the lives lost during a single day – 23 November 2013
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The Observer interview with Nick Clegg and Andrew Rawnsley – Gdn Live
24/09/2016 Duration: 01h04minNick Clegg, former deputy prime minister, joins the Observer’s Andrew Rawnsley to discuss his time in government and the current turmoil in mainstream politics
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Tim Farron talks to Heather Stewart – Guardian Live interview
21/09/2016 Duration: 01h06minThe Lib Dem leader talks to the Guardian’s political editor about Brexit, his party’s future and potential alliances
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Crisis on the left: what's the future of progressive politics? – Guardian Live
15/09/2016 Duration: 01h29minJohn Harris, a cross-party panel and Guardian Members ask if the only way to defeat the Tories is to create a more representative, pluralist politics on the left
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How to live a happy life – Guardian Live event
05/09/2016 Duration: 01h22minDawn Foster asks a UTOPIA 2016/Guardian Live panel what makes us happy and whether happiness is now a marker for success that causes anxiety
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What did the 80s do for us? – Guardian Live event with Alexei Sayle
25/08/2016 Duration: 01h23min‘The godfather of alternative comedy’ takes a walk down memory lane with the Guardian’s Andy Beckett to understand the impact of a tumultuous decade
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Rose Tremain on her novel The Gustav Sonata - Books podcast
29/07/2016 Duration: 59minOrange Prize winner Rose Tremain gives an account of writing her latest book, The Gustav Sonata
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AI, augmented reality and the future of gaming – Guardian live event
20/07/2016 Duration: 01h07minAt a Guardian Live event, games editor Keith Stuart asks a panel of designers and programmers what the advances in artificial intelligence mean for games and the people who play them?
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Chilcot: the Iraq war inquiry – Guardian Live event
10/07/2016 Duration: 01h25minFollowing the publication of the Chilcot report, the Guardian’s deputy editor, Paul Johnson, asks a Guardian Live panel how the invasion, occupation and reconstruction of Iraq were mishandled and looks at the wider consequences
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Panama Papers: the biggest leak in history – Guardian Live event
06/07/2016 Duration: 01h24minAward-winning investigative journalists from Süddeutsche Zeitung Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer reveal the inside story behind the biggest leak in history
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What will the world look like in 2025? – Guardian Live event
01/07/2016 Duration: 01h31minAt the end of a turbulent week, Mark Rice-Oxley and a panel of writers, philosophers and anthropologists take a step back to make their predictions for what our world will look like 10 years from now
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UK votes for Brexit: what happens next? – Guardian Live event
01/07/2016 Duration: 01h31minJonathan Freedland chairs a discussion of what happens after the vote to leave the EU, the biggest political shock for decades
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What next for Syria? – Guardian Live event
28/06/2016 Duration: 01h27minAs a result of the Syrian conflict, more than half of the country’s population has been displaced. At a Guardian Live event, Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov chairs an expert panel discussing the causes of the refugee crisis and how we can tackle it