Younger Audiences, Older Questions

About this episode

The episode discusses listener questions related to engaging younger audiences in environmental topics, featuring a discussion on Speedway racing and the influence of public figures.

We’re back with Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt and William Mankelow, the latter who, to be clear, absolutely was not ready for the recording to start, but the big red button was pressed and now he has to pretend he was. As always, we’ve got two listener questions you lot send in. We don’t see them before we hit record, because apparently we enjoy chaos. We do try to drag every question back to the environment somehow, though some of them fight us all the way. And as we ramble through, we usually stumble across some kind of action you can take, environmental, practical, or just something that pops out of our conversation like a startled Jack Snipe. So settle in, listen closely, and who knows, something might stir in you. In a good way, hopefully. James based in Ecclefechan, Scotland hands us the first question today - “Stuart, you often talk about your love of Speedway racing. I’ve heard Harry Rednapp, at 78, is now employed to oversee the rebranding of the sport to engage and bring in a wider and hopefully younger audience. Is this indicative of the wider world, in that we need recognized people to motivate us to change habits and get involved in something new?” Stuart reckons part…

People in this episode

Host: Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt

Guest: William Mankelow

Topics covered

• environment
• listener questions
• Speedway racing
• younger audiences
• engagement strategies

Keywords

• environment
• listener questions
• Speedway racing
• Harry Redknapp
• younger audiences

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Ecclefechan, Scotland

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