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🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Environmentalist Dale Vince was appalled to learn, as a child, that many adults don't enjoy going to work. Rejecting convention, he decided to hit the road, becoming a New Age traveller - living off the land in alternative communities around England. It's not the obvious starting point for somebody who'd go on to build a company worth £100m.
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0:32.1 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
0:48.0 | Okay. Global Player Original podcast. Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived entirely to allow me to spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio with interesting people. |
0:56.7 | And this week's guest, Dale Vince, entrepreneur, football chairman, political activist, former traveller, genuinely fascinating bloke, about whom quite a lot is known, but also it struck me quite a lot is not, which I sense is the way you like it. |
1:12.4 | Yeah, well, I don't dislike it. I would say that some of the, what it was taken to be the known |
1:17.1 | knowns are not actually accurate, so there's an element of that as well. Of course. But no, |
1:21.4 | I'm happy to be known and to get the chance to speak, actually, to communicate. You know, |
1:27.0 | it feels like this is my mission right now. |
1:29.3 | Yes, and I suppose your profile politically is probably higher over the last 12 months than it had been previously, |
1:35.9 | although commercially, as we'll discover. |
1:39.0 | You're in many ways at least as fascinating. |
1:41.8 | From my point of view, when I research a guest, especially on a |
1:45.7 | podcast project that is more life and times, perhaps, than others, when I read that you don't |
1:52.2 | like talking about your childhood, I get a bit worried. I do. Well, that's fair. That I'm not a fan of |
1:59.1 | talking about, you know, but what I can tell you is it wasn't all fun and I left Scope as soon as I could. |
2:06.6 | I was age 15. I felt like I got out of prison. I never felt like I belonged actually in my life as a kid. |
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