This month, Steve and Emma watched popular Netflix comedy Don't Look Up. Starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Jennifer Lawrence, this obvious climate change allegory asks why we aren't acting against the obvious.
But is it asking the right questions and/or challenging the right people?
This month, Steve and Emma look at 70s political assassination thriller The Parallax View. While it underperformed in terms of box office, it has had a lasting effect and stands as a classic of the paranoid genre. Even if at times it does look like an episode of Dukes of Hazard.
Emma Burnell interviews Mathew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton - authors of new book Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the age of environmental breakdown.
This month, Emma and Steve are looking at the David Hare play The Absence of War. Originally set in 1993 (after extraordinary access to the Labour campaign of 1992) the play echoes many themes still discussed by the Labour Party today.
Emma Burnell talks to Preston Council Leader Cllr Matthew Brown about the 'Preston model' of community wealth building. An approach he describes as "extreme common sense". We discuss how the model works, how to get community buy-in and how transferable it is to other places.
Emma and Steve finally discuss The West Wing. We use the double episode 20 Hours in America but take in as much of the show as can be covered in under an hour.
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