Où est le chatteroo? Voici le chatteroo!

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Life is a Chatteroo, old chum! Come to the Chatteroo.

Hello, and welcome to this week's catch-up, during which we discuss afternoon tea, including young voices in the climate conversation, a hat made of mushrooms, and workplace wellbeing and urban rewilding.

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Ed's new TV obsession leads to a chatteroo about therapy, including a mention of this twenty year-old essay by Nicholas Spice: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n01/nicholas-spice/i-must-be-mad

Plus! Meet our famous new sidekick...

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Hap-py New Year! We welcome our first guest of the Chatteroo-era, and what a guest: This year's BBC Reith Lecturer, Professor Ben Ansell - political scientist and former teaching assistant to Ed Miliband (as Ed mentions 5,000 time during the conversation.)

Listen to/read Ben's Reith Lectures: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9

Buy Ben's book, 'Why Politics Fails': https://www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/product/why-politics-fails-ansell-ben-w/

Visit Ben's website: https://benwansell.com/

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A chatty accompaniment as your potatoes roast and your sprouts boil.

We wish you a cheerful Christmas!

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Chatteroo, roo, roo! Push pineapple, shake the tree!

More Cop reflections, plus encouragment for Ed's paleontology ambition

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Hey you, the Chatteroo crew!

Show what you do, make a break, make a move.

Ed's back from COP28 and is bursting to talk about a phasedown of unabated fossil fuels, paleontology, and Taylor Swift. Plus Geoff pitches a policy idea for the next Labour Party manifesto.

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We're live from COP28. Well, Ed is - Geoff wasn't invited. He's asked for a souvenir from the COP shop.

Dive in for Ed's news from Dubai, he's *very* excited about the ENAP Emissions Report.

Plus, saying 'hi' to strangers, and a mysterious high energy particle is heading for Earth.

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In the Chatteroo stew this week: Ed reflects on the Autumn Statement and budgets he has known and (sometimes) loved, and Geoff gets the wrong end of the stick - or drumstick - about an American tradition.

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Music: Ed Seed

Artwork: A child with a potato and some paint

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