In episode 2, we talk about politicians, the Irish abortion referendum and plastic in relation to 4Ocean, our charity of the month. Our three figures are Tessa Jowell, 66.4% voted Yes to repeal the 8th amendment and Rich Horner diving in a sea of plastic.

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#JusticeForNoura Petition

https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-noura-maritalrape-deathsentence-sudan

The Bold Type

https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Bold-Type-Trailer/dp/B078XM8BDW

Love Stories: Vanessa Kirby, presented by Dolly Alderton

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-stories/id1343714594?mt=2

The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/288619/the-kite-runner-by-khaled-hosseini/9781594631931/

Me Before You Series, Jojo Moyes

https://www.jojomoyes.com/

Figure 1: Tessa Jowell

Tessa Jowell obituary: The ‘people politician’, Julia Langdon https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/may/13/the-people-politician-tessa-jowell-obituary

Tessa Jowell Speech on brain cancer diagnosis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E82hJ9CwJh0

Tessa Jowell: ‘I’m most proud of setting up Sure Start’, Joanne O’Connor

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/26/tessa-jowell-proud-setting-up-sure-start

Remembering Tessa Jowell with Alastair Campbell, presented by Jonny Dymond

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2gs7s

Inspiring Purpose (previously Inspire > Aspire)

http://inspiringpurpose.org.uk/

How children around the world are exposed to cigarette advertising, Sarah Boseley, Dan Collyns, Kate Lamb and Amrit Dhillon

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/09/how-children-around-the-world-are-exposed-to-cigarette-advertising

Figure 2: 66.4% voted Yes to repeal the 8th amendment

Ireland has changed utterly: the cruel eighth amendment is history, Ivana Bacik

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/26/ireland-has-changed-utterly-the-cruel-eighth-amendment-is-history

How the death of Savita Halappanavar revolutionised Ireland, Kitty Holland

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/how-the-death-of-savita-halappanavar-revolutionised-ireland-1.3510387

What I Learned By Flying to England From Ireland to Get an Abortion, Kate Norris

http://time.com/5290955/abortion-ireland-repeal-eighth-amendment/

Abortion has left us a disunited Kingdom, Janice Turner

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/abortion-has-left-us-a-disunited-kingdom-c3g82dcsr

‘A Divided Ireland’, interview of a couple sharing their story of anencephaly pregnancy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuUJF5EBb-A

The Guilty Feminist: Repeal the Eighth with Helen Linehan

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-guilty-feminist/id1068940771?mt=2

Woman’s Hour: Coverage of Repeal the 8th, presented by Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2gsgp

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b0lzc2

Figure 3: Rich Horner diving in a sea of plastic

Charity of the Month: 4Ocean

https://4ocean.com/

British diver films video showing sea of plastic rubbish off Bali, Shehab Khan

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/british-diver-video-sea-of-plastic-pollution-bali-indonesia-rich-horner-a8242716.html

The Ocean Plastic Problem, Harry Carr

https://news.sky.com/story/the-ocean-plastic-problem-10-key-statistics-10740033

A plastic tax would slow the tide of poison, Jenni Russell

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-plastic-tax-would-slow-the-tide-of-poison-lqgpg0cgj

Our week living without plastic, Damien Whitworth

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/our-week-living-withoutplastic-kv076gpx6

Plastic debris found in the deepest part of the ocean, Matt Warren

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/plastic-debris-found-deepest-part-ocean

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