Beautiful Misfits

Beautiful Misfits don’t accept the status quo. They know instinctively the way we’re living today is broken. But they believe the world can be a better place. And they fearlessly take the imaginative leap to change it. Join Mary as she talks to the authors and businesspeople, designers and poets, who are using their unique perspective to create a better, more beautiful, future. Their life lessons are sometimes funny, at others moving, but always insightful. And one thing is clear: we’ve never needed these beautiful misfits more.

A Pixiu production.

Society & Culture
Business
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"Service. It's a sign of humanity...." with Tho...
46 min
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"I had a strong vision..." with Tom Herbert
42 min
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"Are you kidding? You wouldn't say that to a ma...
48 min
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"Our country is broken because our politics is ...
55 min
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"I'm not sure I want to be called an activist" ...
43 min
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"The answer is, there is no answer" with Dr Sha...
43 min
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"When trauma happens, we take a lesson from it"...
42 min
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"We need to expand what beautiful is" with Ione...
54 min
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“Then something marvellous happened” with Jaspe...
55 min
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“The wind of change is moving” with Jude Kelly
45 min
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"I had the key all along" with Candice Brathwaite
62 min
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“We’re far too obsessed with failure” with Juli...
48 min
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“I’m digging and I need an answer” with Lemn Si...
52 min
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“I felt I could handle it…” with Jane Shepherdson
53 min
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Introducing Beautiful Misfits - the new series ...
2 min
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TKE: Why purpose is the key to resilience, with...
37 min
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TKE: Empowering small businesses with Kelly Dev...
32 min
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TKE: Repairing clothes and communities, with Pa...
Patrick Grant knows that fashion has the potential to be about far more than the clothes we wear: from supporting disadvantaged communities to the ultimate anti-dote to throwaway consumerism.  And he’s working at many levels of the industry to...
35 min
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TKE: Rewriting the rules, with Dale Vince, Ecot...
Dale Vince isn’t your average entrepreneur.  After leaving school at 15, he spent ten years living off grid in buses, trucks and underneath tarpaulin.  In 1996 he founded Ecotricity with one windmill in Gloucestershire. The company now...
43 min
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TKE: Using business to save the planet, with Be...
When Yvon Chouinard became a member of the Southern California Falconry Club in 1953, he was taught how to abseil down cliffs to view the birds’ nests and it sparked a lifelong love of climbing and the outdoors. Twenty years later he founded the...
39 min
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TKE: Creating a truly inclusive beauty brand, w...
FOR a long time, the world of beauty was stuck in the old ways of perfume counter selling, excess packaging – and those giveaway foundation samples in magazines that only ever came in some shade of peach. As a teenager of Nigerian heritage, Simi...
34 min
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TKE: Developing healthy food relationships with...
Ella’s Kitchen is a lot more than a baby and toddler food company. Its core mission is to improve children’s lives by developing healthy relationships with food.  But it’s also a B Corps - which means it takes its responsibilities to people...
33 min
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TKE: How sports can help save the planet, with ...
More than three billion people watched the last World Cup final. The reach–and potential impact–of sport is almost limitless. But while social issues are increasingly creating a stir in sport, the environment isn’t yet making quite such an...
35 min
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TKE: Meat isn’t the problem it’s industrial far...
Food is under increasing scrutiny and meat is high on the agenda. Everyone - from the authors of the UK’s national food strategy to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – are telling us to eat less of it. But Glen...
29 min
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TKE: How to make our homes kinder, with Frieda ...
Frieda Gormley and her husband Javvy M Royle dreamed up the idea for their interior brand at the kitchen table. Ten years on, House of Hackney is one of the most influential – and aspirational - British interiors brands. Best known for its use of...
34 min