Our next guest is Music Journalist, DJ and friend, Simon Tucker. We've both known Si for almost 20 years since meeting at Uni in Wales.

In this conversation he talks about Tangled Parrot, the independent record shop where he works, his love for radio and how he’s adjusting to the challenges of homeschooling a 7 year old!

Recorded on April 16th, he also talks about his sobriety during the lockdown and his hopes for the future.
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Links for this Episode 

Tangled Parrot Twitter | Facebook
Hope Not Hate website | Twitter | Facebook
Louder Than War website | Twitter | Facebook
Radio Free Matlock website | Twitter | Facebook

Music Venue Trust website

Tim Burgess Listening Parties website | Twitter 

Si mentions how the current situation has been associated with grief. Here's an interesting article in the Harvard Business review that discusses how "That discomfort you're feeling is grief".

Hacienda live stream/United We Stream website

5G/COVID-19 consipracy theory FT article

Positive Negative creates discussion with a wide range of people around the same set of questions, building a picture of how a certain topic or event is affecting them.
In series one we’re discussing the Coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown.

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In Laurence's next conversation, he speaks with friend and former collaegue Lucy Radford, Engagement Manager for the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS). She explains the impact that the pandemic has had on their work in both the UK and Indonesia - including how their forest patrols (which help to protect Orangutans from illegal activities) have been put on hold, due to social distancing related measures for staff in Indonesia. 

Recorded on April 8th, she also talks about the potential for Orangutans to contract COVID-19 (like all primates) and how the lockdown may help society to reflect on how we see value in individuals.

You can support SOS to take action against deforestation, as well as supporting Orangutans and local communities, by checking out their current campaigns. 

Links for this Episode 
SOS on Twitter
SOS on Facebook
SOS on Instagram

Positive Negative creates discussion with a wide range of people around the same set of questions, building a picture of how a certain topic or event is affecting them.
In series one we’re discussing the Coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown.

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For Josh's second conversation, and our third episode, he spoke with Anna Myers, Executive Director of WIN, the Whistleblowing International Network.

Recorded on Good Friday, she tells us about her career as a lawyer and in the field of whistleblowing, before going on to discuss the pandemic and her hopes for the future.

Links for this Episode 
- Formerly Public Concern At Work, Anna worked for Protect, who aim to "make whistleblowing work for individuals, organisations and society."
- The Piper Alpha disaster in 1988, killed 167 oil rig workers.
- The Clapham Junction Railway Accident, again in 1988, killed 35 people and injured 484, 69 of those seriously.
- The Herald of Free Enterprise capsized in 1987, killing 150 passengers and 38 crew.
- The Scottish Government have recently ended (Apr 5th 2020) a period of public consultation to following the Scottish Law Commission’s recommendations in their Report on Defamation.

Positive Negative creates discussion with a wide range of people around the same set of questions, building a picture of how a certain topic or event is affecting them.
In series one we’re discussing the Coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown.

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Our second episode is a conversation between Laurence and Lee Allen, an NHS Occupational Therapist. They talk about mental health and the surprising effect the lockdown is having for some of Lee's patients.

Links for this Episode
NHS: Mental health & staying at home
Mental Health UK: Managing your mental health during the coronavirus outbreak
SAMH: Looking after your mental health in challenging times

Positive Negative creates discussion with a wide range of people around the same set of questions, building a picture of how a certain topic or event is affecting them.
In series one we’re discussing the Coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown.

SUBSCRIBE NOW to make sure you don't miss it! You can also follow us on Twitter @PosNegative & find us on Facebook & using #posnegative.

In our first episode, Josh speaks to Cathi Bertin, the Projector Director for Befrienders; a voluntary organisation which has been working with children and young people and their families in Argyll and Bute since 1989.

Links for this Episode
Befrienders website
Befrienders Facebook page

Positive Negative creates discussion with a wide range of people around the same set of questions, building a picture of how a certain topic or event is affecting them.
In series one we’re discussing the Coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown.

SUBSCRIBE NOW to make sure you don't miss it! You can also follow us on Twitter @PosNegative & find us on Facebook & using #posnegative.

​Our first episode is on the way shortly. While you're waiting here's how the Clap For Key Worker's sounded in Glasgow, whilst out for some daily exercise, with bagpipes, horns...and even the blackbirds joined in!