Restid
When shared transport becomes a lifestyle. Restid explores the stories of journeys, the theatre of travel, and how people use their travel time.
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Episodes
4 days ago
4 days ago
Making small talk and breaking bread with strangers. It can make both parties much happier. Reach out, show interest, respect and be kind. The legend, and sound, of carrots and the ejection seat.
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Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
Creating invisible transport, the value of local knowledge, seeing the familiar from a new perspective and discovering the unfamiliar. Socrates said "the unexamined life is not worth living", perhaps the unexamined route is not worth taking.
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Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
The challenges of transparency and the four Yorkshiremen. Car-free roads and the humanity of fellow travellers. Catching a baby and the woman laughing on a train. The final episode before the summer break to observe and meet listeners. Look out for the coming meditation recordings.
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Gaining an unfair advantage on court and balancing on a bus. The strange case of Entrance Proximity Compulsion (EPC). Diamond Michael, Steve Jobs and the isolation challenge.
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
David Hockney's "Bigger and Closer" and the state of 'sonder', in which each of us is at once a hero, a supporting cast member and an extra in overlapping stories. With Sir Anthony Hopkins, John Steinbeck, the Magna Carta and the birthday problem. The joy and surprises of bus and train travel.
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Starting is easier than stopping. Agents of change, building trust, mutual respect and civility on the platforms of shared, public transport and transit. As Churchill once said "Why do we regard history as of the past and forget we are making it?"
Tuesday May 14, 2024
Tuesday May 14, 2024
Safe and secure with strangers, surprising adventures, parking in a bus lane, the joys of the Far North Line (https://www.fofnl.org.uk/) and remember, there are more of us.
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Tuesday May 07, 2024
The creative ways that people use to make and save money, riding on buses and trains. This episode includes a magic bus, a convent of arthritic nuns, parking in Amsterdam, John LeCarre, Duke Ellington and more. The opportunities to explore and earn are there to be grasped.
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Productive time vs Elapsed time and overcoming cabin fever.
It's not just how long a trip takes but what you can do with the time the trip lasts.
The Man in Seat 61 and living, studying and playing on trains.
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Restid, travel time
Restid (with an "i") explores why so many people are now embracing shared transport. It's a lifestyle choice rather than just a mode of travel. The motivations for change vary: convenience, safety, cost, and environmental responsibility, are often cited. But the one that really intrigues us is the desire “to explore”.
Whether resting, reading, watching or writing, chatting or listening, travel time is our time, to use as we choose. And a great journey is like a book that you want to finish but not to end.