#11 | What Is It to Be Human?
#11 | What Is It to Be Human?
The Rebel Citizens by News Club
S1 · E11
May 15, 2025
01:25:47
Episode notes

🎙️ What if the BBC wasn’t just public in name, but actually shaped by the public? This week, we talk disability rights, proposed welfare cuts, and what it means to radically democratise our media and culture. From people's assemblies to mutualism, we explore what dignity, care, and creative freedom look like when built from the bottom up.

00:00 - What is it to be human?

00:38 - Welfare cuts: state-sanctioned suffering

08:37 - What you can do about it...

22:10 - The three kingdoms & DPAC

32:17 - Why give a shit about the BBC?

48:13 - A devolved and democratised BBC

57:53 - The state...

01:06:08 - B's 7 questions

01:21:07 – Building our own public media – tell us what you think!!

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Keywords
News
BBC
Democracy
Human Rights
Politics
Media Control
BBC Charter Review
News Club UK
Got News
Media Criticism
polit
Welfare
Human
Disability
Mutualisation
Devolution