Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast

Presented by Matt Barr, Looking Sideways is a podcast about the best stories in skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, and other related endeavours. www.wearelookingsideways.com

Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast is a sports podcast hosted by Matthew Barr, with 314 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Matthew Barr hosts Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast, a sports show with 314 episodes published.

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  Episode 262: Julie Maughan and Chris Hines - Dirty Business

  Apr 6, 20261h 51mS0

  <p>In this episode of Looking Sideways, I speak to Julie Maughan and Chris Hines about Dirty Business, the recent Channel 4 drama exposing the state of the UK’s water industry since privatisation, and the real-life tragedy at its centre.</p><p>The story of eight-year-old Heather Preen, who died after contracting E. coli following a sewage spill on a Devon beach, forms the emotional core of the series, and is what really makes this such a powerful piece of storytelling.</p><p>Because what Dirty Business does so effectively is remind you that behind all of this - the co...

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  Episode 261: Calum Macintyre - Ski Fossil Free

  Mar 17, 20261h 23mS0

  <p>Welcome to the final episode of my three-part Winter Olympics series, in which we’re tackling one of the biggest controversies surrounding the recent Winter Olympics: fossil fuel sponsorship.</p><p>This episode focuses on the Ski Fossil Free campaign, initiated by activists Calum McIntyre and Nikolai Schirmer, which seeks to end fossil fuel partnerships across IOC and FIS events. </p><p>This incredibly effective feat of climate campaigning saw Nikolai deliver a petition - signed by over 20,000 people - to the IOC on the eve of the Games, an act which garnered much publicity and pushed the issue in...

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  Episode 260: Lesley McKenna - Risk Aesthetic

  Mar 8, 20261h 29mS0

  <p>Welcome to the second of three post–Winter Olympics episodes in which I am examining the recent Winter Olympics from a variety of different perspectives.</p><p>In this second episode, I’m joined by Lesley McKenna, one of snowboarding’s great original thinkers.</p><p>A pro skier, snowboarder, coach and team manager, she is herself a three-time Olympian, and helped run GB Park & Pipe in the years when Jenny Jones and Billy Morgan won their medals.</p><p>She has spent the last few years working on a Phd that analyses the tension that exists between a tradit...

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  Episode 259: Tim Warwood & Ed Leigh - The View From The Booth

  Feb 24, 20261h 14mS0

  <p>Welcome to the first of three post–Winter Olympics episodes in which we’ll examine the recent Games from a number of different perspectives.</p><p>As a lifelong snowboarder, I’ve always had a complicated relationship with the Olympics. The performances and spectacle are incredible. But beyond the hype, there are bigger cultural conversations worth having. That’s what this short series is about.</p><p>In this first episode, I’m joined by BBC Olympic commentators Tim Warwood and Ed Leigh — lifelong snowboarders and much-loved voices of Olympic action sports on the BBC.</p><p>In this riotous chat...

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  Episode 258: Alice Sainsbury - Design Justice

  Feb 18, 20261h 31mS0

  <p>Alice Sainsbury is a designer, writer and speaker who in 2015 was diagnosed with an acute neurological condition called transverse myelitis.</p><p>Since then, she’s been on a mission to break down the barriers that stop people with disabilities participating in the outdoor sports and activities that so many of us take for granted.</p><p>In this episode, we explore the reality of life for a disabled person in 2026, and the systemic, societal difficulties disabled people face when it comes to participating in outdoor sports and activities.</p><p>We also discuss Alice’s own story, as well...

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