Episodes 97
Avg. Duration 35m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.5 (2)
Since Jan 2018
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Ratio Talks is a podcast focusing on relationships, health and public policy. Past series covered community power and coping with the pandemic. The current series is focused on the potential for a relational social policy. It is hosted by Michael Little, a co-founder of Ratio.

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Jason Strellitz reflects on the pandemic

Jun 11, 2026 51m

My guest on Ratio Talks this week has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in public health. He worked with Michael Marmot in his early efforts to translate research on health inequalities in…

Matt Hyde on a New Strategy for Lloyds Bank Foundation

May 28, 2026 44m

This episode of Ratio Talks is timed to coincide with the launch of the new nine year strategy for the Lloyds Bank Foundation. The episode is a continuation of the conversation with Matt Hyde, CEO of…

Matt Hyde on Leadership for Local Control

May 14, 2026 46m

Matt Hyde is the guest for the next two episodes of Ratio Talks. Matt is CEO of the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, but made his name leading federations and confederations that allow…

Just Knowledge: Data Democracy in Action

Mar 31, 2026 48m

This week’s podcast is a little different. It is a live recording at Ratio’s home in Somerset House with Celestin Okoroji and Jolyon Miles-Wilson, founders of the research centre Just Knowledge.…

Chine McDonald and Liz Slade wrap up On Religion

Mar 18, 2026 44m

This is the final episode in our series On Religion. The series was co-produced with Chine McDonald from Theos and Liz Slade from the Unitarians, and it is Chine and Liz who bring the series to a…

Clare Farrell on movements, religion and spirituality

Feb 27, 2026 41m

Clare Farrell is my guest on the podcast this week, the penultimate episode in the series On Religion. Clare is co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, known as XR.Non-violent resistance lies at the…

Nick Spencer on science and god

Dec 22, 2025 49m

Nick Spencer is the guest for this episode of Ratio Talks, part of the series On Religion. Nick is Senior Fellow at the think tank Theos and well known for his books on science and religion including…

Women’s Faith Forum

Dec 22, 2025 41m

The podcast this week is in the safe hands of Chine McDonald from the think-tank Theos. Chine continues the series On Religion by bringing together her colleagues Jagbir Jhutti Johal, Joy Madeiros…

Liz Slade on the Future of Organised Religion

Dec 22, 2025 40m

This week’s contributor to the Ratio Talks series On Religion is Liz Slade from the Unitarians. Liz helped shape the series.The Unitarians have been a radical force within and outside of organised…

Robin Dunbar on How Religion Evolved

Dec 22, 2025 43m

The idea of a relational social policy that responds to a powerful civil society, one comprising relationships between people, is built from my own research and experiments, learning from Ratio’s…

On Religion

Dec 22, 2025 14m

This episode start a new sub-series on the relationship between religion and civil society. The series is a collaboration with Chine McDonald from the think tank Theos. We have benefited from help…

Josh Bilton is Repairing Community

Dec 22, 2025 43m

Josh Bilton is a community artist -he explains what this means at the beginning of the podcast. He has been working in the Brunswick Centre where, until recently, I was living. The Brunswick Centre…

Cormac Russell on Disciplined Community Development

Dec 22, 2025 47m

This week’s guest on Ratio Talks is Cormac Russell, one of the leading thinkers in community development. Cormac learned his trade with John McKnight, and Jody Kretzmann and other leading lights of…

Simon Duffy on Being a Citizen

Dec 22, 2025 21m

In this second episode of my conversation with Simon Duffy, we talk about the policy and practice implications of the concept.In the podcast, Simon refers to the work of philosophers Hannah Arendt,…

Simon Duffy on Being a Citizen

Dec 22, 2025 39m

In this and the next episode of Ratio Talks, Simon Duffy talks about the foundational concept of citizen -not in the sense of citizen of a nation, but in terms of the rights and responsibilities of…

Marc Stears on the Importance of a Stumbling Squirrel

Mar 19, 2025 45m

This week’s guest on Ratio Talks is a political theorist, leader of the UCL Policy Lab, and former speechwriter to ex-Labour Party leader Ed Milliband.Marc Stears grounds his work in the meaning that…

Jon Cruddas on A Century of Labour

Mar 04, 2025 46m

Jon Cruddas, until the last election the Member of Parliament for Dagennham and Rainham, wrote a book to mark the centenary and provide a new perspective on the history of the Party.A Century of…

Geoff Little on Sir Howard Bernstein

Feb 19, 2025 31m

In the last episode of the podcast, we talked to Sir Richard Leese, Leader of Manchester City Council during a quarter of a century of policy and democratic reform.Richard was part of a double act.…

Sir Richard Leese on Manchester’s Mission

Feb 06, 2025 1h 3m

If you skim through the domestic news headlines in British papers between 1996 and 2021, you will be reminded of the Blair years, the effects of the global economic crash, austerity, Brexit,…

Richard Galpin on We Walworth

Jan 22, 2025 44m

Richard Galpin works at Pembroke House, the settlement described by Mike Wilson in the previous episode. Richard leads a classic settlement project, a conversation that connects local people, local…

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