#Manda Bonus: Must Read, Must Listen, Must View:
Manda’s favourite books, podcasts and videos this Winter Season
It’s that time of year – when all we really want is to curl up and reflect, go inside, become the potential that will arise in the unfolding spring. If you want things to listen to or watch or read as you head into the long-nights, then these are (some of) the things that have caught my attention this year. Enjoy!
Non-Fiction
Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machada de Oliviera
Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World as we Know It by Ginie Servant-Miklos NB – you can download the pdf for FREE!
Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Foundations for Collective Wellbeing by Yuria Celidwen
Right Story, Wrong Story Tyson Yunkaporta
Down the Rabbit Hole by Charlie Bennett
Fiction
Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
Murder in the Climate Assembly by Denise Baden – You can get a feel for the book here
Denise’s Kickstarter here
Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison – due March 11th US and a few days later UK
Film & Video
Richard Wain: The Oath of the Hopeful
Roots so Deep
The Shopping Conspiracy Trailer
Future Council – not yet released
Podcasts
Farm Gate 1 ‘What is Bill Gates doing to Africa’s Food?’
Farm Gate 2 ‘Down the Rabbit Hole with Charlie Bennett’
The Great Simplification: Future Council: How Children are responding to our Planetary Crisis
What is a Good Life with Mark McCartney – Rekindling our Wild Nature with Diarmuid Lyng
Wild with Sarah Wilson speaking to Indy Johar
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The Stewardship Freehold Village – an idea whose time has come – with Michael Taite
“When we build, we first remove the soil and replace it with rubble, concrete and tarmac. When we grow, we exclude all life from the land bar the one crop we want. Where we belatedly recognise our ultimate dependence on nature, we confine it to intensive ‘nature only’ areas such as rewilding zones, field margins and beetle banks.” Michael Taite 2026
Making Glorious Trouble with Uffe Elbaek, activist, system builder and author of Doubt, Hope, Action
We talk a lot on this podcast about the need for a new system: politically, culturally, in business, media and art…in everything we do. And yet, we don’t often have the opportunity to talk with someone who has set up a new political party – still less one explicitly predicated on the core values of courage, generosity, transparency, humility, humour and empathy. You’d think it would be hard to argue against these, but, as Uffe Elbaek discovered when he entered the Danish Parliament…the system doesn’t always want to be courageous, or transparent, or generous, or to embody humility, humour and empathy.
We All Came By Boat’ – exploring Ireland & Britain’s ancient myths and the world’s future mythologies with Clare Murphy
Cupla Focal! (Irish Gaelic for ‘A Couple of Words’) – so here are a couple of words and then a few more: what happens when the Fires in our Hearts become tsunamis of feeling that take us beyond the narrow imaginal cul de sacs our culture has created, and throw our doors wide open to the wonder of the past and the absolutely unknowable, glorious, constantly surprising possibilities of the future we haven’t built yet?
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