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  • Danny Dorling

    Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter’s College. He is a patron of RoadPeace, Comprehensive Future and Heeley City Farm. He has published over 50 books, including the best-selling Peak Inequality: Britain’s Ticking Timebomb (2018) and Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists (2014).

  • Mary O'Hara

    Mary O’Hara is an award-winning journalist, author and producer specializing in social justice. She is the author of two books: The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative (2020) and Austerity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK (2014). She is founder of the multi-platform anti-poverty storytelling initiative, Project Twist-It and chair of The David Nobbs Memorial Trust.

  • Margaret Heffernan

    Margaret Heffernan

    Margaret Heffernan worked for 13 years as a radio and television drama and documentary producer. She then spent eight years in the US running media technology companies and was named one of the Internet’s Top 100 by Silicon Alley Reporter and one of the Top 100 Media Executives by The Hollywood Reporter.

  • Paul Lindley

    Paul Lindley OBE is an award-winning British entrepreneur, social campaigner and best-selling author. In 2006 he founded Ella’s Kitchen, the UK’s largest baby food brand. In 2018 he was appointed Chair of London’s Child Obesity Taskforce by Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, and was appointed Chancellor of the University of Reading in 2022.

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Transforming Society Podcast
  • Challenging the monarchy: Britain after Elizabeth II

    Challenging the monarchy: Britain after Elizabeth II

    Fri, 02 May 2025 08:56:02 GMT

    With the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles, Britain has entered a new era — and questions about the future of the monarchy have become more pressing. Does it have a long-term role to play in modern Britain, or is it an anachronism whose days are numbered?In this episode, George Miller talks to Laura Clancy, lecturer in media at Lancaster University and author of the new book What is the Monarchy For?, about the questions she think we should be asking about the monarchy in 21st-century Britain. Their conversation explores the monarchy’s part in perpetuating inequality, its use of soft power, the influence it exerts over media narratives, and whether the institution can keep re-inventing itself while essentially remaining the same.‘The monarchy is doing important work ideologically,’ Laura argues, ‘upholding systems of inequality – even if it’s not authoritarian, even if it seems passive....

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  • Can journalism as we know it survive?

    Can journalism as we know it survive?

    Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:06:12 GMT

    There are many truisms about journalism. That it should speak truth to power. That it must be rooted in community....

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  • The myth of the heroic billionaire

    The myth of the heroic billionaire

    Wed, 26 Mar 2025 09:36:56 GMT

    Billionaires represent a scourge of economic inequality, but how do they get away with it within our culture?In this episode of our Transforming Business podcast series with Martin Parker, Carl Rhodes, author of ‘Stinking Rich’, explains the dangerous and deceptive myths which portray billionaires as a ‘force for good’.They discuss the myths of the heroic, generous, meritorious and vigilante billionaire, and how their wealth and power is setting us back to old-fashioned feudalism and plutocracy....

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