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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EU debate: countdown to the referendum – Guardian Live event
21/06/2016 Duration: 01h07minAs the final week of campaigning heats up, the Guardian’s political editor Anushka Asthana and her cross-party panel offer passion and clarity as they ask whether the UK should remain part of the EU
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The next UN secretary general: meet the candidates - Guardian Live
14/06/2016 Duration: 01h28minThree of the people standing for UN secretary general present their vision for ‘the world’s most impossible job’
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Free speech under attack - Guardian Live event
12/06/2016 Duration: 01h23minAn expert panel debates whether there should be limits to what we say and write, and if so, who should decide what is acceptable or not?
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What would Brexit mean for the UK? - Guardian Live event
11/06/2016 Duration: 01h29minGuardian writers Polly Toynbee, Larry Elliott, Natalie Nougayrède and Rafael Behr analyse the EU exit and remain campaigns
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Don DeLillo on writing his novel Underworld - books podcast
10/06/2016 Duration: 57minThe American novelist Don DeLillo gives an account of writing his modern masterpiece Underworld to the Guardian book club
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The idiot brain: with Dean Burnett and Robin Ince - Guardian Live evt
06/06/2016 Duration: 01h26minDean Burnett and Robin Ince examine the wonderfully messy, disorganised and often illogical workings of the human brain
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How a woman is made: Sara Pascoe and Laura Bates - Guardian Live event
27/05/2016 Duration: 52minZoe Williams chairs a discussion on how sexism has changed in the digital age, the failures of sex education and what can be done to improve equality
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Patrick Kingsley on Europe's refugee crisis - Guardian Live event
23/05/2016 Duration: 01h27minEurope is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of the second world war. At a Guardian Live event Patrick Kingsley, the Guardian’s migration correspondent, hosted a panel discussion to discuss the political challenges behind the escalating crisis
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Does class matter? Guardian Live event with Owen Jones and Rachel Johnson
05/05/2016 Duration: 01h29minDoes class still matter and how does it operate in today’s society? At a Guardian Live event, Owen Jones, Rachel Johnson and guests discuss the politics of class and the results of the largest survey of social class conducted in the UK
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Philosopher Slavoj Žižek talks to Gary Younge – Guardian Live event
26/04/2016 Duration: 01h20minOne of our best known living philosophers discusses immigration, the liberal left and Europe’s future, with columnist Gary Younge
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Panama Papers: the biggest leak in history – Guardian Live event
26/04/2016 Duration: 01h21minA panel of Guardian reporters explores the fallout from the Panama Papers and tells the inside story behind the biggest leak in history
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What's the future for Europe? - Guardian Live event
18/04/2016 Duration: 01h17minFormer Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and an expert panel discuss whether the EU has lost sight of its original purpose. Is it time to for the UK to leave?
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EU referendum debate - Guardian Live event
13/04/2016 Duration: 01h21minShould the UK stay part of the European Union? With polls showing the vote split down the middle, the Guardian brought together key commentators on both sides of the argument to discuss the future of the UK in Europe
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How can we get more people cycling in London? - Guardian Live event
06/04/2016 Duration: 01h10minChris Boardman joins an expert panel to ask why some people still feel cycling in the capital is too risky and what can be done to encourage more people to get on their bikes
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Marina Litvinenko on her husband's murder - Guardian Live event
30/03/2016 Duration: 01h26minIn 2006 undercover MI6 spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in central London. At a Guardian Live event his widow Marina talked to Luke Harding about fighting for the truth and the role of the Russian state
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Colm Tóibín on writing his novel Nora Webster – books podcast
29/03/2016 Duration: 01h14minThe Irish novelist gives an intimate account of how he wrote his most autobiographical novel, to the Guardian book club at a live event recorded in London
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Ed Miliband and George Monbiot in conversation - Guardian Live event
22/03/2016 Duration: 01h32minAre we failing to achieve a clear global consensus on how to tackle climate change? Former leader of the Labour party Ed Miliband, Guardian journalist George Monbiot and scientist Helen Czerski debate the implications of the historic Paris agreement
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Our journey to the nuclear brink, with William J Perry - Guardian Live
17/03/2016 Duration: 01h22minAs the Trident debate rages on, Julian Borger talks to former secretary of defence for President Clinton, William J Perry, who has a unique, and chilling, vantage point on why nuclear weapons endanger our safety, rather than secure it
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Is Putin dragging the west into the next cold war?
09/03/2016 Duration: 01h22minNato has accused Russia of undermining stability in Europe while the prime minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned of a new cold war. At a Guardian Live event, an expert panel discussed Putin’s ambitions and Russia’s shifting relationships
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Karl Ove Knausgaard, in conversation with John Mullan – books podcast
08/03/2016 Duration: 01h21minAt a Guardian Live Book Club event, the Norwegian literary phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard explains how and why he has put the most intimate details of his life into his autobiographical novels