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Danni Malone - Chief Network Officer Trussell Trust
Duration: 38 minutes
Danni Malone, Chief Network Officer at the Trussell Trust, talks food banks and the need for change
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Dr Duncan Robertson, believes robots could be part of the solution to labour shortages in farming
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Freddie Webb, founder of Father, shares his views on sonic branding and a key area where brands are missing a trick.
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Scott Davies on creating a £45m honey business (Hill Top Honey) with a £5,000 bank loan, tenacity and a radical pricing approach.
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Harriet Lamb, CEO of WRAP, strikes a positive note on how we can all help solve the food waste crisis
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Ben Branson founded Seedlip and helped start a revolution. Now he is back with a new venture, Seasn and a podcast.
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Toby Hopkinson, Co-Founder of All things Butter, tells the story of a start-up that is going back to basics to reinvent a neglected but delicious category.
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Is beer good for health? Just think about some of the words used when we toast someone. Santé, Gesondheid, Sláinte. They are words that translate roughly as ‘health’. Humans have used alcohol for millennia as a delivery method for medicinal botanicals, as a painkiller, sterilant and for the advantages ethanol itself offers.
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When Ludwig Zamenhof invented Esperanto in 1887 his goal was for humans to communicate in a common language so peace and international understanding could be fostered regardless of regional or national tongues. Perhaps he was not aware that a lingua franca already existed and it is called beer.
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When tasting beer describing it as having coffee, treacle, and liquorice flavours, or crisp and light body with subtle herbal aroma and soft biscuit malt character is not unusual now but before the mid-1980s there was no tasting vocabulary for beer.