Podcast
Union Talks
Hosted by Michelle Coleman · EN
A custom collection of talks with a variety of influential people.
11episodes
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Kathy Sullivan | Full Q&A
May 20, 202001:01:07Tap to summarizeFormer NASA astronaut Kathryn Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space. She has been a crew member on three Space Shuttle missions as a geologist, and subsequently served as the Secretary of Commerce for Oceans & Atmosphere in the Obama administration.
Transcribe →Brendan Rodgers | Full Q&A
Apr 11, 202000:56:53Tap to summarizeBrendan Rodgers is a football coach and manager. A former footballer, his own professional career was cut short by a genetic knee condition at age 20, but he successfully transitioned to coaching, and then management. Known as an impactful manager, he led Swansea City to enter the Premier League for the first time, and helped Liverpool become runners-up in the league. He is currently at Leicester City, sitting at 3rd in the Premier League at time of writing.
Transcribe →Sam Allardyce | Full Q&A
Mar 28, 202000:58:02Tap to summarizeSam Allardyce is an English football manager and former professional player. Over the course of 21 years as a defender, he made over 500 league and cup appearances. As a manager, meanwhile, he has managed a range of high profile clubs, including Newcastle, West Ham, and Everton, and was briefly manager of the England national team, where he held a 100% win record.
Transcribe →Brittany Kaiser | Full Q&A
Mar 11, 202001:02:16Tap to summarizeFormerly the business development director for Cambridge Analytica, Brittany Kaiser was one of the employees who helped expose the company's misuse of Facebook data to influence the UK Brexit referendum and 2016 U.S. presidential election. She testified about her own involvement before the UK Parliament and Mueller Investigation, and has written two books about the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal. This year, she has released Cambridge Analytica materials relating to numerous other foreign elections.
Transcribe →Krishnan Guru-Murthy | Full Q&A
Mar 3, 202000:57:04Tap to summarizeKrishnan Guru-Murthy is one of the most recognisable faces in British journalism, having served as the presenter of Channel 4 News for 22 years. Known for his interrogating interview style, he has often put his interviewees on the spot, and has presented some of the most important events in recent history. He also presents the Channel 4 podcast, Ways to Change the World.
Transcribe →Conan O'Brien | Full Q&A
Feb 26, 202001:00:08Tap to summarizeConan O'Brien is an American comedian and television personality, best known for hosting his own eponymous late-night talk show, Conan. A former writer for SNL and The Simpsons, and a graduate of Harvard University, he is celebrated for his awkward, self-deprecating comedic style, and has over 25 years' experience as a late-night host.
Transcribe →Megan Phelps-Roper | Full Q&A
Dec 10, 201900:45:41Tap to summarizePhelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, a controversial American church known for its inflammatory rhetoric and homophobic beliefs. The daughter of the organisation's spokesperson, and granddaughter of its founder, she was one of the church's most prominent members before leaving the organisation in 2012 alongside her sister, Grace. No longer a practising Christian, she now works as an activist to overcome religious and political hatred and division.
Transcribe →Arron Banks | Full Q&A
Dec 2, 201900:55:54Tap to summarizeBanks is widely regarded as one of the chief architects of Brexit, having donated more than £13 million to anti-EU organisations, including UKIP, as well as having funded and directed Leave.EU, the unofficial Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum. Following the referendum, Banks wrote The Bad Boys of Brexit, a book chronicling his role in the campaign's success. Recently, his political activities have come under legal scrutiny for possible connections with Russian authorities.
Transcribe →Richard Ratcliffe | Full Q&A
Nov 18, 201900:52:58Tap to summarizeRatcliffe is the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian who has been wrongly imprisoned by the government of Iran since 2016. Ratcliffe is an outspoken campaigner for his wife’s release, and the return of his four-year-old daughter, Gabriella, who is now being raised in Tehran. He notably launched a petition for Nazanin and Gabriella's return, in 2016, and began a hunger strike in June outside the Iranian Embassy in London. Most recently, Ratcliffe attended the UN General Assembly to advocate for his family's return.
Transcribe →Petr Čech | Full Q&A
Oct 31, 201901:03:07Tap to summarizeČech is one of the Premier League's most successful goalkeepers, winning the Golden Gloves a record-equalling four times. Playing with Chelsea and Arsenal, he won five FA Cups, four Premier League titles, and set a number of records for clean sheets. He is the Czech Republic's most capped player, and was part of the first Czech national team to qualify for the World Cup finals. Čech retired earlier this year.
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