ColaLife live on CNN
February 22, 2010 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
Prism Anchorman, Stan Grant. Image credit: CNN
We live in a global community. On Wednesday afternoon (24/2/10) I will pop into the CNN Studios near Oxford Circus in London to be interviewed live by Stan Grant who will be in Abu Dhabi delivering CNN’s Prism programme. Prism is the half-hour news programme, broadcast from Sunday to Thursday at 9pm to fall in line with the Middle Eastern working week. The interview will be around the question “Is business better at delivering aid?”
What an earth am I going to say? 
ColaLife moves on the rest of Europe - Part 1
August 31, 2009 by Simon Berry · 1 Comment
I was interviewed in August for Germany’s on-3 radio over Skype. And here is what was broadcast on 18/8/09 (my bits are in English!):
A conversation with Mark Ellis of sounddelivery
May 13, 2009 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
A big thank you to the folks at sounddelivery, Mark Ellis and Eric Whelan in particular, for the creativity that went into this audio feature which was recorded on the evening of 25/3/09 and summarised the ColaLife story so far. The feature mixes audio from various sources.
Since the interview Coca-Cola have confirmed that they plan to carry out trials of the ColaLife idea later this year in Tanzania.
Matthew Taylor on globalisation and the G20
March 16, 2009 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
I was honoured to be asked by David Wilcox and the folks at Yoosk.com to put the questions of Yoosk members to Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA and ex political adviser to Tony Blair. That bit was easy . . . asking the questions again afterwards to an empty chair, to get the reverse angle shots, was more of a challenge. Paxman need not worry. His job is safe!
Here is Matthew on globalisation and the G20.
You can see all of the questions and answers on the Yoosk’s London Summit site or on Yoosk’s YouTube Channel.
After the interview I showed Matthew the ColaLife AidPod. He’d heard of ColaLife and is to put me into contact with one or two people he thinks can help. I am a fellow of the RSA and ColaLife is to be featured in the next issue of the RSA Journal which should be out at the end of March.
ColaLife on BBC (UK) National Radio (27/12/08)
December 29, 2008 by Simon Berry · 2 Comments
On Saturday, 27/12/08 the BBC ran a 10 minute feature on ColaLife updating the initial interview back in June on the BBC Radio 4 programme, iPM. It includes bits from the original interview in June 2008, an update on progress and the vision from me and a clever audio cut from the frontline video filmed in Tanzania.
The item is no longer available on the BBC iPlayer but, thanks to the iPM Team, you can listen by clicking on one of the players below:
High quality (for broadband users)
Low quality but totally adequate (dial-up connections)
Eddie Mair finishes the feature saying “Simon Berry with his aidpod“. This is interesting because at the recent face-to-face meeting of ColaLife supporters there was lots a discussion about what the ‘ColaLife Pod’ should be called as the pod idea has applications beyond Coca-Cola, or Pepsi Cola for that matter. Terms like ‘healthpod’ and ‘lifepod’ are already in use for other things but ‘aidpod’ isn’t. So . . . . I’ve registered aidpod.org, aidpod.org.uk and aidpod.co.uk just in case we need them moving forward. For the moment I have re-directed these domain names to the ColaLife Blog.
If we adopted the term ‘aidpod’ then we would need to start talking in terms of ‘The ColaLife AidPod‘ which would leave space for the ‘Pepsi AidPod’ and the ‘Heineken AidPod’ etc etc
Any thoghts on the ‘aidpod’ name? What would it go down like on the frontline I wonder?
A holiday gift for all ColaLife supporters
December 24, 2008 by Simon Berry · 1 Comment
Happy holidays everyone!
ColaLife is likely to be featured as ‘a highlight of the year’ in BBC Radio 4’s iPM programme (scroll down to ‘Greatest Hits’) on 27/12/08. If you are near a radio in the UK at 17:30 GMT on that day please tune in. Alternatively you can listen via the internet on the Radio 4 page.
Image credit: Cola-Cola gets everywhere, Les Menuires, Dec 2008. Simon Berry.
Many thanks to newstalk
December 5, 2008 by Simon Berry · 1 Comment
The ColaLife Facebook Group has received a boost today thanks to Sean Moncrieff and all the lovely people at newstalk radio, Ireland. Thanks particularly to newstalk listeners Stephen Byrne and Neil Curran who actually posted positive messages on the wall of the Facebook Group.
I was interviewed over the phone this afternoon by Sean . . . . although Caroline and Naomi at newstalk had set me up for a pre-recorded session, I found myself talking to Sean live!
Thanks for your support.
Thanks to talkSPORT listeners
September 16, 2008 by Simon Berry · 1 Comment
The Facebook Group numbers were up by more than the usual this morning thanks to talkSPORT listeners across the country. Thanks to all those who followed through from the interview that went out in the very early hours of this morning. We are now 5,710.
I got a call while on the train yesterday morning from talkSPORT Radio to ask if I’d do an interview for The Ultimate Later Night Show with Adrian Goldberg. Adrian has been supporting the ColaLife Campaign from the very early days and has featured it on The Stirrer Blog. - ‘news that matters, campaigns that count’. I hadn’t realised that Adrian also hosted the talkSPORT Show.
Thanks for being so generous with your networks Adrian . . . we must meet up some time and I must buy you a beer!
BBC World Service Interview - 13/7/08
July 13, 2008 by Simon Berry · 2 Comments
Here is today’s interview on the BBC World Service. I was expecting something much more linked up. During the week we’d talked about linking it to the WaterAid publication (Tackling the silent killer) that came out last week to coincide with the G8 Summit. In the end it was a standalone slot just 4 minutes long.
Thanks to The World Today weekend team for setting this opportunity up.
Download BBC_WS_Interview.mp3 (4745.9K)
Coca-Cola Campaign to be discussed on the BBC World Service
July 11, 2008 by Simon Berry · Leave a Comment
On Sunday (13/7/08) at 5am (BST) I’ll be on my bike on my way to BBC Bush House for the Weekend edition of The World Today on the BBC World Service. I’ll be discussing the Coca-Cola Campaign with a panel of people which includes a Professor of Econmic Development from Kenya who will be in the Nairobi studio.
You should be able to hear the programme live here at 5am GMT (6am BST). I’ll try and get a recording.
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