Restart Radio

We discuss opportunities and limits of the new French Repairability together with experts involved in its development and in the European Right to Repair campaign

On February’s episode, we discuss game consoles, printers, and the virtually useless voluntary agreements for their manufacturers.

Labour rights abuses did not start with Covid. Omana George from Electronics Watch tells us how she has been working to protect occupational health.

On our first show of 2021, we revisit the topic of digital inclusion and providing laptops to students in need.

If there’s one thing we were able to do in 2020 without too much interruption, it was make podcasts. It was a year of serious topics, made all the more urgent by public health, economic and environmental crisis. In the Top 5 mix: strain on supply chains, reuse of medical equipment, teaching climate change in schools, and the urgent lack of diversity in tech.

Interactive artist, presenter and Repair Café volunteer Seb Lee-Delisle talks about his installation Laser Light City. Through it, he allows viewers to control high-powered lasers beaming into the urban night sky. We also talk nerd comedy, open source, and repair.

It’s our final radio show of a year full of bad news, and we have some good news to share. We speak to Jonathan Samuels, a lighting designer who has started a new lighting business. And we talk about positive steps by UK and EU Parliaments.

John Wackman and Elizabeth Knight are repair organisers and community advocates in the US. We hear how this work informed their new book, Repair Revolution.

Joined by renowned iPhone repairer, Rico Cerva, we discuss how the serialisation of smartphone components is affecting independent repair.