The Vegan Option Radio Show

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• VegHist Ep 15: Liberation. Veganism, hippies, and the animal rights movement. With Sam Calvert and Maneka Gandhi; at London, Cambridge, and Bangalore + Play Now
• VegHist Ep 14: Diet Reform. On consumerism, lebensreform, and Gandhi; with Ramachandra Guha; at Sabarmati Ashram, India + Play Now
• VegHist Ep 13: The Vegetarians. Abolitionism, colonialism, and Victorian reformers; with Julia Twigg and Bhaskar Chakraborty. In London + Play Now
• VegHist Ep 12: Radicals & Romantics. Bible Christians, Grahamites, and Transcendentalists; with Adam Shprintzen and Derek Antrobus; at Deerfields, Fruitlands, and Salford + Play Now
• VegHist Ep 11: Enlightenment. Colonial India, Voltaire, Rousseau, and the French Revolution; with Partha Chatterjee, Christophe Martin, and Renan Larue; at the Black Hole of Calcutta, and Musée Rousseau Montmerency + Play Now
• VegHist Ep 10: Revolution. English civil war, diet gurus, and the poetry of Sensibility; with Tristram Stuart and Anita Guerrini; at the Ahmedabad Panjrapole + Play Now
• VegHist Ep 9: Renaissance. Descartes, Montaigne, Gassendi, and the “sparing diet”; with Jean-Charles Darmon, Deepak Kumar, and Justin Begley; in Paris, France + Play Now
• VegHist Ep 8: Contacts. Indian Sufism, Bhakti, Akbar, Portuguese Christianity, and Gaudiya Vaishnavism; with Sanjukta Gupta; in Agra, Delhi, and London + Play Now
• VegHist Ep 7: Heresies. On Chinese Buddhists, Cathars, Bogomils, Islam, and Manichaeans; with Vincent Gooseart, John Arnold, Jason BeDuhn, and Ven. Chueh Yun; at the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple, in London + Play Now
• VegHist Ep 6: Hinduism. On Indian Vegetarianism, Vaishnavism, Satvik, and Mahayana Buddhism; with Sanjukta Gupta, Deepak Anand, and Ranjan Garavu; at Ananta Vasudeva Temple, Bhubaneswar and Nalanda Mahavihara + Play Now
• Vegan Politicians: Kerry McCarthy MP on Brexit + Play Now
• VegHist Ep 5: Flesh and Spirit. On Egyptian monasticism, Early Christianity, Plutarch, Neoplatonism, and Manicheansim; with David Grummet, Nicholas Baker-Brian, Michael Beer, and Fr. Abouna Yostas St. Athanasius + Play Now
• VegHist Ep 4: Ashoka. On India’s animal advocate Buddhist king and the spread of the śramanas; with Bharati Pal and Suchandra Ghosh; at the Kalinga rock edict, India + Play Now
• VegHist Ep 3: Pythagoreans. On the Cults of Orpheus and Pythagoras in Ancient Greece; with Hugh Bowden, Michael Beer, John Wilkins, and Armand D’Angour + Play Now
• VegHist Ep 2: The Middle Path. On Siddharta Gautama, and Buddhism; with Rev Varasambodhi Thera, Peter Flugel, and Richard Gombrich; at Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya, India + Play Now
• Digital Vegans: Picking up the Tab, with Stephanie Redcross of Vegan Mainstream + Play Now
• Palm Oil: with Catherine Laurence, Eric Lambin, Orangutan rescuer Daniek Hendarto, RSPO SG Darrel Webber +
• Science Fiction and Animals: from Jonathan Swift and HG Wells to Star Trek and Doctor Who; with Sherryl Vint, Robert McKay, and Tara Lomax + Play Now
• Cats: Ethics. With Erin Red, Evolution Diet’s Eric Weisman, and vets Lorelei Wakefield, Andrew Knight, and Jean Hofve + Play Now
• Cats: Can they be vegan? With vets Lorelei Wakefield, Andrew Knight, and Jean Hofve; and special guest Erin Red + Play Now
• Extended interviews on iTunes, starting with Dr Julia Minson + Play Now
• South East Asia: Finding Vegan Food in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia + Play Now
• Judgemental: with Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Dr Julia Minson, and Marla Rose + Play Now
• London Olympics: Closing Update with Vx, Animals in the Opening Ceremony, and Vegan Food + Play Now
• London Olympics: interview with Kara Lang, vegan Olympian, Canada soccer team + Play Now
• London Olympics + Play Now
• Vegan Cheese: Casein, Casomorphins, and the Daiya Redwoods Vegusto Taste Test + Play Now
• Born Vegan at Vegfest UK, with Ruby Roth, Mair Perkins, and a studio audience + Play Now
• Born Vegan: from 1976 UK TV to the Hebrew Israelites, three very different vegan childhoods + Play Now
• Lab Meat: Can in vitro meat save the animals? With Nicholas Genovese, David Pearce, and Jordi Casamitjana + Play Now
• Rebel Poet: Benjamin Zephaniah discusses the life of Abul ʿala Al-Maʿarri (أبو العلاء المعري), the medieval Arab vegan philosopher poet + Play Now
• Digital Vegans: with Happy Cow founder, iPhone apps, London Vegans, and Kerry McCarthy MP + Play Now
• Peace on Earth: will we ever have it? With Peter Singer and Gary Francione discussing Steven Pinker’s “The Better Angels of our Nature” + Play Now
• Veganism in Politics: The British Parliament Debates World Vegan Day + Play Now
• Veganism in Politics: Chris Williamson MP, Cathy Jamieson MP and Kerry McCarthy MP answer your questions + Play Now
• Veganism in Politics: Chris Williamson MP, Cathy Jamieson MP and Kerry McCarthy MP with questions from Dennis Kucinich and Maneka Gandhi + Play Now
• The Pledge: the London Vegan Campaigns challenge to go vegan for a month + Play Now
• A very small sneak peek. + Play Now

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Bonus material

• The Vegan Option: Born Vegan, The Parents’ Turn
• The Vegan Option: Olympics – Kara Lang, Vegan Olympian
• The Vegan Option: Olympics – Closing Update
• Judgement: Julia Minson interview
• Lab Meat: David Pearce Interview
• The Vegan Option: Peace on Earth (Gary Francione)
• The Vegan Option: Peace on Earth (Peter Singer)

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