Jukebox from The Miracle Inn

Zoe Cohen is best known for her involvement in some of the era defining protest movements of our times. She has been arrested multiple times under the banners of Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, Just Stop Oil and Defend Our Juries. She has been a spokesperson for all four movements. Zoe is also an executive coach, an outspoken anti-Zionist Jew, a mum, a citizen and an award-winning communicator.

In this fourth episode of the JUKEBOX podcast, Zoe and host, Morgan Phillips, discuss Zoe’s thoughts and perspectives on what the climate and environmental movement is and does, how the media interprets and presents the action that is happening, and the ups and downs of life on a planet that isn’t being well served by those in power. This interview was recorded in October 2026 shortly after the Green Party of England and Wales autumn conference and one day after the Holborn and St Pancras parliamentary by-election, which saw Green Party leader Zack Polanski finish second. The interview starts with Zoe’s reflection on that conference and the treatment Zack Polanski received from the media - as well as from within the Green Party - as the reactions from the ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion being passed rippled out.

JUKEBOX is a podcast by The Miracle Inn, hosted by Dr Morgan Phillips. On the JUKEBOX podcast we ask each guest to choose three songs they'd put on The Miracle Inn jukebox if they were ever to visit. The songs are a starting point for a conversation about their work and their ideas, but we also get to know them a little bit more too.

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1. “Big Yellow Taxi” - by Joni Mitchell
2. "We have all the time in the world” - by Louis Armstrong
3. “One day like this” - by Elbow
4. “Everybody Hurts” - by REM

We have created a Spotify playlist featuring all four songs and a song from Euros Child's album The Miracle Inn.

If you have another device within earshot, you could put this playlist on in the background while you listen to the conversation.

The item Zoe would 'accidentally on purpose' leave behind at The Miracle Inn is a handful of her homegrown Squash seeds.

News story: Sky News (2025): Labour members vote to accept Israel committing genocide in Gaza.

Report: Living Planet Report 2026 - by WWF

YouTube channel: Paul Beckwith - Climate scientist

Book: Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis - by James Davies

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Dr. Saamah Abdallah is Programme Lead People and Wellbeing at Hot or Cool Institute and one of the people behind the highly influential project Happy Planet Index. The Miracle Inn is collaborating with Hot or Cool Institute to create and pilot an education resource to bring the Happy Planet Index to life for 11-13 year olds.

In this third episode of the JUKEBOX podcast, Saamah Abdallah discusses the thinking behind the Happy Planet Index and what it tells us about living well in these troubled times. The three songs Saamah selects for The Miracle Inn jukebox take us from his political awakenings in Barcelona to his current work and life in Berlin, via the years he spent in London at the New Economics Foundation.

Jukebox is a podcast by The Miracle Inn, hosted by Dr Morgan Phillips. On the Jukebox podcast we ask each guest to choose three songs they'd put on The Miracle Inn jukebox if they were ever to visit. The songs are a starting point for a conversation about their work and their ideas, but we also get to know them a little bit more too.

The Miracle Inn is a community interest company and membership organisation focused on tackling the phenomenon of hyper-individualism.

Sign up to our newsletter at themiracleinn.org/newsletter to learn more about our work and future episodes of the Jukebox podcast.

Our regular online events are open to all and can be found at themiracleinn.org/events-calendar

To support the podcast and our wider work please become a member of The Miracle Inn at themiracleinn.org/join

1. “El confort no reconforta” (Comfort does not comfort) - by Ojos de Brujo
2. "Keine Zeit” (no time) - by Dota Kehr
3. “We are still here” - by Bukahara

We have created a Spotify playlist featuring all three songs and a song from Euros Child's album The Miracle Inn.

If you have another device within earshot, you could put this playlist on in the background while you listen to the conversation.

The item Saamah would 'accidentally on purpose' leave behind at The Miracle Inn is a book “Against Elections” by David van Reybrouck

Organisation: New Economics Foundation (NEF)

Organisation: Global Action Plan

Research: Five Ways to Wellbeing — Connect, be active, take notice, keep learning and give.

Research report: Clone Town Britain by the New Economics Foundation — Research into the homogenisation of British high streets and the decline of independent shops.

Initiative: Earth Overshoot Day — The date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources exceeds what the Earth can regenerate in that year.

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Emma River-Roberts is founder and director of the Working Class Climate Alliance, a not-for-profit membership organisation which trains and advises organisations on social class and climate change. The WCCA works with academics, campaigners and civil society groups across the world to put class at the centre of their climate work.

In this second episode of the Jukebox podcast, Emma highlights the importance of making the climate movement more inclusive of working-class communities, stresses the need to challenge class inequalities and the opportunities to build collective power through community connections, and reflects on the emotional toll the climate crisis is taking on us as it unfolds.

Jukebox is a podcast by The Miracle Inn, hosted by Dr Morgan Phillips. On the Jukebox podcast we ask each guest to choose three songs they'd put on The Miracle Inn jukebox if they were ever to visit. The songs are a starting point for a conversation about their work and their ideas, but we also get to know them a little bit more too.

The Miracle Inn is a community interest company and membership organisation focused on tackling the phenomenon of hyper-individualism.

Sign up to our newsletter at themiracleinn.org/newsletter to learn more about our work and future episodes of the Jukebox podcast.

Our regular online events are open to all and can be found at themiracleinn.org/events-calendar

To support the podcast and our wider work please become a member of The Miracle Inn at themiracleinn.org/join

1. 'Things behind things behind things' - by Bon Iver
2. 'Teardrop' - by Massive Attack
3. 'Genesis' by RAYE

We have created a Spotify playlist featuring all three songs and a song from Euros Child's album The Miracle Inn. If you have another device within earshot, you could put this playlist on in the background while you listen to the conversation: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3RV0vGL7GiyXITFKcKb756?si=2208f1b33d44447c

Emma's 'accidently on purpose' item

The item Emma would 'accidentally on purpose' leave behind at The Miracle Inn is a poster advertising the podcast series The Dropout. You can listen to The Dropout on all good podcast platforms, including Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7lrJqILWfMuQhqDHJEFUK6?si=af28354d6913440e

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For the last four decades we have been urged, as individuals, to 'live green', to be a 'green consumer'. The theory of change we have been sold is this: if enough individuals adopt green lifestyles the planet will be 'saved'. It is a story told to us by brands, politicians, NGOs, and celebrities. Many of us will have told this story ourselves too, to friends, colleagues, family members and, if environmentalism is our profession, our audiences. But what if it isn't true? What if the focus on individual acts of environmental stewardship is a distraction from what really needs to happen. In this first episode of the Jukebox podcast, Professor Michael Maniates asks us to think again about why we choose to live green. 

Jukebox is a podcast by The Miracle Inn, hosted by Dr Morgan Phillips. On the Jukebox podcast we ask each guest to choose three songs they'd put on The Miracle Inn jukebox if they were ever to visit. The songs are a starting point for a conversation about their work and their ideas, but we also get to know them a little bit more too. 

The Miracle Inn is a community interest company and membership organisation focused on tackling the phenomenon of hyper-individualism. 

Sign up to our newsletter at themiracleinn.org/newsletter to learn more about our work and future episodes of the Jukebox podcast.

Our regular online events are open to all and can be found at themiracleinn.org/events-calendar

To support the podcast and our wider work please become a member of The Miracle Inn at themiracleinn.org/join

1. 'Southern Cross' by Crosby, Stills and Nash
2. 'The Pretender' by Jackson Brown
3. 'Come Downstairs and Say Hello' by Guster

We have created a Spotify playlist featuring all three songs and a song from Euros Child's album The Miracle Inn. If you have another device within earshot, you could put this playlist on in the background while you listen to the conversation: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/21kCG0lHZJrlkjnZg4PHpM?si=ff34531dd322461e

The item Michael would 'accidentally on purpose' leave behind at The Miracle Inn in the hope that someone might pick it up and engage with it is a documentary 'The adventures of a radical hillbilly'. You can watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSwW0zc-QBQ

Book: The Living-Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism by Michael Maniates: https://www.hive.co.uk/product/michael-maniates/the-living-green-myth--the-promise-and-limits-of-lifestyle-environmentalism/23212676

Essay: Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World? by Michael Maniates: http://www.sindark.com/phd/thesis/sources/Maniates.pdf

Book: Consumption Corridors - Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits by Doris Fuchs, Marlyne Sahakian, Tobias Gumbert, Antonietta Di Giulio, Michael Maniates, Sylvia Lorek, Antonia Graf: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9780367748746/consumption-corridors-doris-fuchs-marlyne-sahakian-tobias-gumbert-antonietta-di-giulio-michael-maniates-sylvia-lorek-antonia-graf

Organisation: The Story of Stuff Project: https://www.storyofstuff.org/

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