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Earth Beat ColaLife Interview | 4/3/11

14 March 2011 By Leave a Comment

EarthBeat logoAt the end of February, while walking the dog, I got a call from Louise Stoddard a producer for the Earth Beat Programme on Radio Netherlands Worldwide. She was interested to hear about ColaLife – Louise had heard about us through our friends at Africa Gathering.

Anyway the outcome of this is that I was asked to go to the BBC’s Coventry and Warwickshire studio to be interviewed by the Earth Beat’s presenter Marnie Chesterton. Our conversation lasted for about an hour and this was edited down to these 7.5 minutes. Click on the play button below to hear the feature that went out on the 4 March edition of Earth Beat:
EarthBeat ColaLife Interview | 4/3/11 by colalife

Our thanks go to the team at Earth Beat. These things always throw up useful contacts who help us move ColaLife forward.

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ColaLife interview with World Vision Report | 11 Dec 2010

11 December 2010 By Leave a Comment

Can Coke add life? Here is the interview with World Vision Report published today (11/12/10).

World Vision Report ColaLife Interview | 11 Dec 2010 by colalife

World Vision Report Homepage 111210

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The BBC World Service interview featuring Coca-Cola

10 November 2010 By Leave a Comment

For those of you who missed it, the interview (not the whole programme)  is now available to listen to again here (9mins).

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ColaLife on the BBC World Service this Monday (8/11/10)

5 November 2010 By 1 Comment

It all started with a tweet. This one:

Claudia Hammond Tweet

Two weeks ago I was driving through Lusaka listening to Claudia Hammond’s ‘Health Check’ programme on the BBC World Service which transmits on FM in Lusaka. At the end of the programme Claudia said she was on Twitter, so I tweeted.

A series of exchanges resulted in me pitching up at Bush House at 11am yesterday (4/11/10) for an interview with Claudia. When I got there Euan Wilmshurst from Coca-Cola was there as well. This is the convening power of the BBC in action. Coincidentally, the last time Euan and I met face to face was for the BBC iPM interview that went out earlier this year on 25/4/10. It was this interview that made me realise that my decision, 6 months earlier, that I needed to give up my job to make ColaLife happen was the right one.

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Claudia Hammond (presenter) and Paula McGrath (producer) of Health Check give the AidPod the once over

The interview will go out on Monday on 648 MW in the UK at the following times: 10:30; 15:30; 20:30 and on Tuesday at 01:30 on Radio 4. It will also be available on listen again on the Health Check page on the BBC website.

 

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ColaLife live on CNN

22 February 2010 By 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? :-)

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ColaLife moves on the rest of Europe – Part 1

31 August 2009 By 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!):

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A conversation with Mark Ellis of sounddelivery

13 May 2009 By Leave a Comment

Simon Berry ColaLife Know How Non-Profit Interview | sounddelivery by colalife >

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.

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Matthew Taylor on globalisation and the G20

16 March 2009 By 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.

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ColaLife on BBC (UK) National Radio (27/12/08)

29 December 2008 By 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 the play button below:

iPM ColaLife Feature broadcast on 27 12 2008 by colalife

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?

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A holiday gift for all ColaLife supporters

24 December 2008 By 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.
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