Co-Host of The Why Curve podcast @CurveThewhy whycurve.com and presenter @BBCNews formerly @business, writer and broadcaster
Joined March 2009
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Jun 12
There could be a super El Niño coming. And climate change could turn up the volume on the resulting extreme weather around the world. How? Manoj Joshi, Professor of Climate Dynamics @uniofeastanglia tells @rdhearing and @LoudMouthComms
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Jun 12
There could be a super El Niño on the way, bringing extreme weather around the globe. Manoj Joshi, Professor of Climate Dynamics @uniofeastanglia tells me and @LoudMouthComms - climate change will maximise the effects
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Jun 5
Is Donald Trump at sea in the Gulf? Or is there method in endless on/off deals and rising oil prices - and convincing the world he doesn’t know what he is doing? @jamesdboys @CUSP_ucl tells @rdhearing and @LoudMouthComms
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Jun 5
Are we misunderstanding what’s happening between Iran and the US? Is the apparent endless and damaging stand-off what Donald Trump actually wants? I and @LoudMouthComms get the views of @jamesdboys @CUSP_ucl
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May 29
Entertainment or bloodsport? Has reality TV crossed a line with Married At First Sight? And is it damaging viewers as well as participants? Professor Helen Wood @AstonUniversity gives her views to me and @LoudMouthComms
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May 22
Headlines about Ebola and hantavirus, but are we prepared for the next pandemic? What have politicians and scientists learned from COVID? I and @LoudMouthComms ask Dr Jeremy Rossman @biokent
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May 22
Ebola, hantavirus - medical emergencies so far contained, but are we ready for the next pandemic. Have we learned enough fro COVID? Dr Jeremy Rossman @biokent breaks down the risks for @rdhearing and @LoudMouthComms
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May 14
Why is Reform UK so popular? And do the party leaders want the same thing their voters want? Dr Vladamir Bortun from Oxford University dissects the differences on this week's podcast: whycurve.com/episode/reform-…
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May 14
Reform UK could be on the way to government, but what sort of government would that be? Far-right, or just populist? Dr Vladimir Bortun @UniofOxford tells @rdhearing and @LoudMouthComms
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May 14
With a future Reform UK government in prospect, what IS their politics? Far-right? Extreme conservative? Populist? I and @LoudMouthComms ask Dr Vladimir Bortun @UniofOxford
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May 8
Are we heading for a market crash, or just a gentle correction? Prof David McMillan of @StirUni tells me and @LoudMouthComms it all depends on the outcome of the US confrontation with Iran
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May 1
Forced adoptions, gay men imprisoned - we look back on the judgments of previous generations with horror. Are we kinder now? Or just more aware of difference? I and @LoudMouthComms ask @SMTaylorauthor @leedsbeckett
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May 1
Forced adoptions, men imprisoned for being gay - we’re horrified by the attitudes of just a generation ago. So is society now more compassionate? Or are we just unkind in different ways? @SMTaylorauthor @leedsbeckett tells @LoudMouthComms and @rdhearing
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Apr 25
Can the UK afford both benefits AND bullets? @Frencheconomics takes me and @LoudMouthComms through the choices on boosting defence and maintaining our welfare system
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Apr 16
Why is Lebanon a battlefield yet again? Invasion and bombing by Israel are adding to economic collapse and the threat of a new civil war. @JohnNagle71 @QUBelfast explains Lebanon’s endless nightmare to me and @LoudMouthComms
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Apr 16
Lebanon once again the punch-bag in Middle East conflict. Why has this country’s history been marked with so much trouble - invasions, economic collapse and civil war? @JohnNagle71 @QUBelfast tells @LoudMouthComms and @rdhearing
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Apr 9
Ukraine hasn’t gone away, even though the Iran conflict has pushed it from the headlines. And what is developing there is a dangerous and murderous stalemate, Professor David Galbreath @UniofBath tells me and @LoudMouthComms
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Apr 9
The 6-week war in Iran has pushed Ukraine from the headlines, but the four-year conflict there rumbles on, and seems to have turned into a dangerous stalemate, Professor David Galbreath @UniofBath tells @rdhearing and @LoudMouthComms
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Apr 2
Dragged into a war they didn’t want, Arab states in the Gulf are facing daily Iranian bombardment, and a block on their ability to export oil and gas. How do they feel about that?@LoudMouthComms and I ask @miraalhussein_ @alwaleed_centre @EdinburghUni
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