Our next guest on 4TN is Alice Kunjappy Clifton, Director and Chair of Community United West Berkshire. The organisation began in September 2020 and works to improve inclusivity and equality in the district. Their work is to empower all cultures to be connected and engaged within the community including statutory agencies and public services. #podcast #currentaffairs2021 #community

This week is mental health awareness week and our guests at 4TheNow are Adam Wilshere Ambassador of Time2Talk West Berkshire and Kate Adams Deputy clinical Lead. Kate talks about the young people suffering from mental health through lockdown and the issues the pandemic has brought for some of them.  Adam shares his own experiences and how he became an ambassador for the counselling service for 11 to 25 years olds. #podcast #currentaffairs2021 #mentalhealthawarenessweek 

Cannabis is a drug, isn’t it? Our next guest on 4TheNow is Dan Marshall a CBD Cannabidiol Business Developer. He explains the difference between a psychoactive drug and what is a legal food supplement to promote health and wellbeing. The CBD market may still be very young but there is already a lot of research on the effects on a person's health and wellbeing.

Renounce or not to renounce, that is the question?! Expatriation Lawyer John Richardson has returned to 4thenow to discuss renouncing US Citizenship. John helps US persons living abroad to navigate their extraterritorial tax situation and discusses what could be their next move in different financial circumstances. He does not promote renunciation but understands this is a very serious personal dilemma for US persons who fall under FACTA foreign Account Compliance Taxation Act. #podcast #currentaffairs2021 #FACTA #USCitizenshipTaxation

Our next guest is John Lauwerys Trustee at CPRE Hampshire. Earth day was the week and we talk about the campaign to clear up litter in the countryside and the effect it is having on our environment.

Self Care, looking after yourself is of the utmost importance and there has never been a time more prevalent during this global pandemic to do just that! Our next guest at 4TheNow is Dr. Maureen Baker Chief Medical Officer of the free app Healthily, an online symptom checker. #podcast #currentaffairs2021 #selfcare #healthcare #healthily

There have been tributes to Prince Philip from around the World

The Duke of Edinburgh dies at Windsor Castle at the age of 99. The Queen announced the death of her 'beloved husband' with 'Deep Sorrow' on Friday   9th April.  4TN spoke to Sir John Madejski OBE who paid tribute to HRH a remarkable man who devoted his life to public service. #podcast #currentaffairs2021 #news #PrincePhilip #RoyalFamily #LossToTheNation #DeepSorrow #WorldwideTributes 

Thousands of people feel that they never had the opportunity to say goodbye 'properly'. Newbury Minister Richard Littledale lost his wife a few years ago to cancer and is now helping others navigate their grief! His new booklet No Visible Scar is out this month! #podcast #currentaffairs2021 

Toronto-based lawyer John Richardson is our guest this week at 4TN. He was born in the United States and has lived almost all of his life outside and spent the best part of a decade helping US Citizens with FATCA the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. This means all US persons wherever they are living in the world are subject to US-based Citizenship taxation. John has set up a group with Laura Snyder and Karen Alpert called Stop Extraterritorial American Taxation. SEAT is asking anyone affected by this taxation to have their say and put their submissions to the Senate Finance Committee but they must be received by the 7th April. http://seatnow.org/2021/03/29/have-your-say-tell-the-senate-finance-committee-how-international-taxation-affects-you/

This week our guest on 4TN is Steve Masters, Green Party Councillor in West Berkshire and an Anti-HS2 Campaigner who discusses the current protest legislation and vote that passed a crucial hurdle with a majority of over 90 in the House of Commons on Wednesday to crackdown on the right to protest. #podcast #currentaffairs #therighttoprotest