Où est le chatteroo? Voici le chatteroo!Send us hamster facts, or anything else that's on your mind: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.Send us an email: chat@cheerfulpodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brilliant climate scientist Emily Shuckburgh joins the Chatteroo to talk through the climate data for 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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-madPlus! Meet our famous new sidekick... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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/b00729d9Buy 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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A chatty accompaniment as your potatoes roast and your sprouts boil. We wish you a cheerful Christmas! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chatteroo, roo, roo! Push pineapple, shake the tree!More Cop reflections, plus encouragment for Ed's paleontology ambition Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode covers topics including fossil fuel phaseout, challenges faced by COP meetings, a sociable world concept, innovative toilet ideas, and fossil discoveries including a T-Rex relative and colossal sea monsters on Dorset's Jurassic coast.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Email us: reasons@cheerfulpodcast.comMusic: Ed SeedArtwork: A child with a potato and some paint Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.