12 episodes

Restid (with an ”i”) explores travel time, rather than destinations. We enjoy the stories of journeys, the theatre of travel, and discover how people use their travel time.
And why so many embrace shared transport as a lifestyle choice rather than just a mode of travel.

Restid Mark Selby

    • Society & Culture

Restid (with an ”i”) explores travel time, rather than destinations. We enjoy the stories of journeys, the theatre of travel, and discover how people use their travel time.
And why so many embrace shared transport as a lifestyle choice rather than just a mode of travel.

    Ep 11: The Journey So Far

    Ep 11: The Journey So Far

    The challenges of transparency and the four Yorkshiremen. Car-free roads and the humanity of fellow travellers. Catching a baby and the woman laughing on a train. The final episode before the summer break to observe and meet  listeners.  Look out for the coming meditation recordings.

    • 12 min
    Ep 10: Good Health

    Ep 10: Good Health

    Gaining an unfair advantage on court and balancing on a bus. The strange case of Entrance Proximity Compulsion (EPC). Diamond Michael, Steve Jobs and the isolation challenge.

    • 11 min
    Ep 9: Different Perspectives

    Ep 9: Different Perspectives

    David Hockney's "Bigger and Closer" and the state of 'sonder', in which each of us is at once a hero, a supporting cast member and an extra in overlapping stories.  With Sir Anthony Hopkins, John Steinbeck, the Magna Carta and the birthday problem. The joy and surprises of bus and train travel.

    • 11 min
    Ep 8: All Change

    Ep 8: All Change

    Starting is easier than stopping.  Agents of change, building trust, mutual respect and civility on the platforms of shared, public transport and transit.  As Churchill once said "Why do we regard history as of the past and forget we are making it?"

    • 10 min
    Ep 7: The Eyes on the Bus

    Ep 7: The Eyes on the Bus

    Safe and secure with strangers, surprising adventures, parking in a bus lane, the joys of the Far North Line (https://www.fofnl.org.uk/) and remember, there are more of us.

    • 10 min
    Ep 6: Making and Saving Money

    Ep 6: Making and Saving Money

    The creative ways that people use to make and save money, riding on buses and trains. This episode includes a magic bus, a convent of arthritic nuns, parking in Amsterdam, John LeCarre, Duke Ellington and more.  The opportunities to explore and earn are there to be grasped.

    • 10 min

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