Rainbow Turtle Rebooted Fair Trade Podcast
Welcome to the Rainbow Turtle Rebooted podcast. We intend to bring you interviews and information about fair trade and the work that Rainbow Turtle does.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 26
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
Series 3 Episode 8 - Meet the volunteers 5
In this episode we introduce you to two more volunteers with the organisation.
First up is Anne Scriven. Anne has been involved in fair trade for a long time, starting with her local chu…
Series 3 Episode 7 - Linda Okhuoya Ologe interview
In this mini episode we meet our education officer, Linda Okhuoya Ologe. Linda has been on maternity leave for this past year and, just before fair trade fortnight, I popped round to Li…
Series 3 Episode 6 - Meet the volunteers 4
In episode 6 of our current series we meet 3 more volunteers from Rainbow Turtle.
First up is Kitty McEachen, an escapee from Glasgow who, to her surprise, found that Paisley wasn't such…
Series 3 Episode 5 - Meet the volunteers 3
In episode 5 of series 3 of our podcast we meet Elise Kelly, our creative shop manager. Elise has been in charge for about three and a half years. She joined us when we were just coming…
Series 3 Episode 4 - Meet the volunteers 2
In this episode we introduce you to Joyce Jackson who started out as a fair trade stall holder in her local church before being inveigled into volunteering at the shop by Liz Cotton whe…
Series 3 Episode 3 - Juliet Robb interview
In this episode we meet Juliet Robb of Olive Tree, a charity that buys products from crafts people in Palestine and then sells them in Scotland. The money provides the artisans with a l…
Series 3 Episode 2 - Meet the volunteers 1
In this mini episode, we meet long standing Rainbow Turtle volunteers: Gillian Henry, Roisin Mulholland and Maureen Brough. In it they share why fair trade is important to them and what…
Series 3 Episode 1 - Michael Gidney interview
Michael Gidney, currently the chief executive of the Fairtrade Foundation, has worked for at least 30 years in international development (which corresponds nicely with the 30th annivers…
Rainbow Turtle Rebooted Series 3 Taster
Welcome to series 3 of Rainbow Turtle Rebooted the podcast that brings you the people and their stories from the world of fair trade. In this series we interview Michael Gidney, the chi…
Rachel Farey interview
In this episode I am delighted to be talking with Rachel Farey of the One World Shop in Edinburgh. It's a beautiful shop positioned at the western end of Princes Street in Edinburgh wit…
Sally Sawaya interview
In this episode we are playing a recording of a talk by Sally Sawaya of Meru Herbs in Kenya that she gave recently to the staff of True Origin and Rainbow Turtle in Paisley, Scotland. S…
Mary Popple interview
In this episode we meet Mary Popple the current chair of JTS, the company that imports fair trade goods into Scotland and distributes them throughout the UK.
Mary grew up in Northern Ire…
John Riches interview - Part 2
In this episode we bring you part 2 of the John Riches interview. (If you've not heard it, do check out part 1 where John talks about his early life and influences.)
We join John where h…
John Riches interview - Part 1
In this episode, John tells interesting stories of working in a refugee camp in Austria after the 2nd world war, of being a chaplain at Cambridge University at the height of the student…
Series 2 taster
This short taster introduces Series 2 of the podcast. In this new series we'll be bringing you interviews with John Riches founder of JTS, Mary Popple of the St. Andrews Fair Trade Grou…
Part 2 of a throwback to original podcast episode 1 from 2016
We have another throwback podcast for you where we're back to fair trade fortnight in 2016 and to Josh Brown's original Rainbow Turtle podcast series. This is part 2 of the episode that…
Throwback to original podcast episode 1 part 1 from 2016
This episode takes us back to February 2016 to the very first Rainbow Turtle podcast which was previously thought to be lost. Part 1 of this episode takes us on a fair trade journey:
- It …
Pauline Tiffen interview
Welcome to this special Christmas episode of the Rainbow Turtle Rebooted podcast where I’m delighted to be able to interview Pauline Tiffen of the Journal of Fair Trade. Ever since I st…
Martin Rhodes: COP26 and Fair Trade Part 2
This is the 2nd part of Martin Rhode’s talk that he gave to Rainbow Turtle at their AGM back in October. In part one he talked about the links between COP26 and Fair Trade. In this epis…
Mauro Pereira interview
In this episode we talk to Mauro Pereira from Brazil. He is the executive director of Defenders of the Planet, an environmental campaign group based in Rio de Janiero. He is attending t…