Podcasts with the DEAL Team - 2025

This tool brings together podcasts from 2025 featuring DEAL Team members on Doughnut Economics and related topics. Read a short description of each episode below and click "Listen here" for more details and listening platforms. 

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A World out of Balance: Introducing Doughnut 3.0
Podcast: Upstream
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Release date: 02 December, 2025.

Della Duncan interviews Andrew Fanning, DEAL’s Research & Analysis Lead, to discuss Doughnut 3.0, the current state of the global economy, differences in environmental degradation and social deprivation among countries, and how communities are responding to Doughnut Economics to rebalance local and global economies.
 

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What Happened to Our Dreams of the Future?
Podcast: ACFM
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Release date: 21 September, 2025

Did young people always worry so much about their futures? Has the currency of emergency been devalued? Does conservatism have an idea of the future? Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn wonder what's next with ideas from Max Weber and Kate Raworth, and music from LTJ Bukem and FKA twigs.
 

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The Seeds Herman Planted: Final Episode of Going Steady with Herman Daly
Podcast:  Cities 1.5
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Release date: 16 September, 2025

The podcast series reflects on Herman Daly’s legacy, and this episode — featuring Leonora Grcheva (DEAL's Cities and Regions Lead) and Kate Raworth (DEAL's Co-founder and author of Doughnut Economics) — explores how cities are putting into practice ideas ranging from Doughnut Economics to degrowth. From Glasgow to Tokyo, the episode shows how urban spaces have become key sites for grassroots economic projects and ambitious local policies, driving systemic change from the city level upward.

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The Canary Has Fallen Silent: Episode 2 of Going Steady with Herman Daly
Podcast:  Cities 1.5
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Release date: 26 August, 2025

The episode follows Herman Daly from the lecture halls of Louisiana to the forests of Brazil, during a time of global upheaval in the late 1960s. Shaped by his work across Latin America and the realities of inequality and ecological fragility in the Global South, the episode traces how his thinking on a steady-state economy took form, alongside wider cultural shifts such as the first Earth Day and Limits to Growth, marking the moment his ideas began to move from resistance to global influence. This episode features Kate Raworth, among other guests.

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Doughnut Economics: 'Leave No-One in the Hole'
Podcast:  Cities 1.5
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Release date: 07 August, 2025

Adrian Goldberg talks to Kate Raworth at the Byline Festival about Doughnut Economics.

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The Doughnut Economy: promoting a development model that focuses on people and the planet - with Kate Raworth
Podcast:  Economies that work - for all (United Nations System Staff College)
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Release date: 02 July, 2025

Using the Doughnut Economics framework, which places human dignity, social justice, and environmental sustainability at the core of economic policy-making, Kate Raworth presents another alternative vision for redefining progress in the 21st century, that is closely aligned with the idea of a ‘human rights economy’.

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S5E01: Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics
Podcast:  The Climate Ambassador Podcast
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Release date: 23 June, 2025

In this conversation with Daithí, Kate Raworth gives an overview of how she became disillusioned with mainstream economics as a student, and how stepping back from academia and getting some hands-on experience in the Global South sowed the seeds for her to literally redraw the model of economics.