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Red Cross Radio
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The British Red Cross is running a short series of podcasts. Every other Friday between 10 October and 21 November, we will be uploading a new episode of Red Cross Radio, our podcast programme featuring the incredible stories of our volunteers, staff and the people we are helping in the UK and across the world.
We welcome your suggestions and comments - whether complimentary or critical. Email us at podcasts@redcross.org.uk.
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Episodes
1 - Itsy bitsy boom!
TweetSome things you just can’t make up. Three nights ago, a man in East Anglia went spider-hunting in his bathroom after his wife complained of an arachnid incursion. He found the wee thing lurking behind the toilet bowl and – rather uncharitably, to my mind – sprayed a shedload of aerosol at it. Then, because [...]
2 - It’s on the Meter: the world’s longest taxi ride
TweetIt started as an idle question in a taxi home after a night out with friends: “I wonder what’s the furthest anyone has ever been in a taxi?” The details of the night are long forgotten but the question started the wheels in motion and blossomed into an ambitious world-record attempt to raise money and awareness [...]
3 - Start to de-clutter in September
TweetAccording to some shocking statistics I’ve discovered online, average UK consumers send 30kg of clothing and textiles per head to landfill every year. And apparently, in the United States, an average piece of clothing is only worn six times before being discarded. Talk about wardrobe malfunction…on a massive scale. Charities like the Red Cross play a [...]
4 - Five ways to help others on your bank holiday
TweetLet’s face it – the only thing that’s certain over the August Bank Holiday weekend is unpredictable weather. So here’s a list of things you can do whether the sun’s shining or the country’s shrouded in rain. 1. Visit an open garden. Members of the public open their gorgeous gardens and charge a few quid entry, which [...]
5 - World Humanitarian Day recalls bomb blast
TweetToday is the first official United Nations World Humanitarian Day. It has been commemorated unofficially on the anniversary of the 19 August 2003 bomb blast against the UN headquarters in Baghdad, since soon after it happened. The blast killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN’s chief envoy to Iraq, along with 22 others. Iraqi sisters Suhad (left) and [...]
6 - The Death March Cycle Challenge
TweetWhen Stuart and Matthew Denyer came across a little red book of memorabilia uncovering their grandad’s story of struggle and determination, they decided to honour his ordeal by taking up a challenge for the charity that helped him through it – the British Red Cross. Stuart takes up the story. Grandad never really wanted to talk [...]
7 - Internships reinvented
TweetSince the British Red Cross launched its internship programme in 2007, over 270 interns have passed through its doors and the mark they’ve made is impressive. Long gone are the days when tea making and filing were the heights of an intern’s tasks – now they’re running their own projects and bringing their own specialist knowledge [...]
8 - Robots in war
TweetI hated the Transformers movie. For me, it was just bad Eighties toys repackaged as a rubbish film, with the human actors every bit as tinny as their metallic counterparts. It comes to something when a talking car comes across as the most sympathetic character. Besides, the idea of robots playing a meaningful role in a [...]
9 - How Florence Nightingale influenced the Red Cross
TweetToday marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Florence Nightingale. We all know this renowned nurse as a paradigm of humanity but you may not know that she directly influenced the setting up of the British Red Cross in 1870. She encoraged the leading men of the day to set up the organisation, gave [...]
10 - In defence of “chuggers”
Tweet“Hi, I’m Mark and I’m a ‘chugger’!” (pause for gasps) It does seem funny to me that when I tell people that I’m a fundraiser I get that reaction 50 per cent of the time or “oh really? You must hate it”. Traffic warden, estate agent…chugger!! I hate the derogatory term “chugger”. I prefer high street warrior – a term I [...]
