The Restart Project Podcast

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Let's fix our relationship with electronics

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Restart Podcast Ep. 105: Fixing Factories are transforming London’s high streets
May 05, 2026
Restart Podcast Ep. 104: We’re ready for a repair boom at UK music festivals
Feb 26, 2026
Restart Podcast Ep. 103: Resurrecting our low-tech and sustainable past, with Cédric Carles from Atelier 21
Dec 18, 2025
Restart Podcast Ep. 102: We’re saying no to Microsoft’s wasteful end of Windows 10
Oct 14, 2025
Restart Podcast Ep. 101: Engineering our repairable future, with Mark Miodownik
Aug 27, 2025
Restart Radio: London gets a new Fixing Factory and repair vouchers
May 28, 2025
Restart Podcast Ep. 100: Trailblazers of repair
Mar 07, 2025
Restart Podcast Ep. 99: EKO! is changing lives with low-tech solutions
Dec 27, 2024
Restart Podcast Ep. 98: It’s official, the UK needs more reuse options
Oct 19, 2024
Restart Podcast Ep. 97: Beyond the repair manual, with Shannon Mattern
Aug 29, 2024
Restart Podcast Ep. 96: It’s time for a Student Repair Revolution
Jun 27, 2024
Restart Podcast Ep. 95: There’s hope yet for UK waste and repair policy, with Green Alliance
Apr 18, 2024
Restart Podcast Ep. 94: How to talk about avoiding waste, with Keep Britain Tidy
Mar 13, 2024
Restart Podcast Ep. 93: A 2023 Restart Retrospective
Dec 18, 2023
Restart Podcast Ep. 92: Taking repair on the road
Nov 30, 2023
Restart Podcast Ep. 91: Voices of Fixfest UK 2023
Oct 21, 2023
Restart Podcast Ep. 90: Meet TV’s Retro Electro Workshop ‘super fixers’, Rob Howard and Matt Marchant
Sep 28, 2023
Restart Podcast Ep. 89: What happens to your waste? with Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Aug 01, 2023
Restart Podcast Ep. 88: Saving reusable products from the shredder, with West London Waste Authority
Jun 29, 2023
Restart Podcast Ep. 87: Exploring Brighton’s repair and reuse ecosystem
Jun 01, 2023
Restart Podcast Ep. 86: Why repairers need hope, not guilt, with Katie Treggiden
Apr 25, 2023
Restart Podcast Ep. 85: The local businesses giving your stuff a ‘second life’
Mar 24, 2023
Restart Podcast Ep. 84: Repairmongers, remakeries, and repair hubs
Feb 28, 2023
Restart Podcast Ep. 83: Meet the students Fixing Things for the Future
Jan 30, 2023
Restart Podcast Ep. 82: No need for new toys, we have Team Repair
Dec 14, 2022
Restart Podcast Ep. 81: Launching the new Fixing Factory
Nov 28, 2022
Restart Podcast Ep. 80: Voices of Fixfest 2022
Oct 27, 2022
Restart Podcast Ep. 79: eSpares wants you to clean your filters
Sep 29, 2022
Restart Podcast Ep. 78: Meet our new(ish) Co-Director, Fiona Dear
Jul 25, 2022
Restart Podcast Ep. 77: Reflecting on our first 10 years
Jun 29, 2022
Restart Podcast Ep. 76: Funky phones and durable design, with Ben Wood
May 24, 2022
Restart Radio: Introducing Fixing Factories
May 12, 2022
Restart Podcast Ep. 75: The law and repair: it’s complicated, with Aaron Perzanowski
Apr 28, 2022
Restart Podcast Ep. 74: Why digital access is a right, with Ready Tech Go
Mar 28, 2022
Restart Podcast Ep. 73: Repair Café Aotearoa New Zealand
Feb 25, 2022
Restart Podcast Ep. 72: Maintaining your bike and your community, with Jenni Gwiazdowski
Jan 27, 2022
Restart Podcast Ep. 71: Fixing at Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement
Dec 22, 2021
Restart Radio: Reflecting on a challenging but successful 2021
Dec 16, 2021
Restart Podcast Ep. 70: An epic journey through climate history with Alice Bell
Nov 24, 2021
Restart Podcast Ep. 69: Exploring our consumption emissions with Professor John Barrett
Oct 25, 2021
Restart Radio Republished: Mark Phillips photographs ‘essential’ repair
Oct 13, 2021
Restart Podcast Ep. 68: Inequalities in UK craft and making, with Dr Karen Patel
Sep 29, 2021
Restart Podcast Ep. 67: Reflecting on repair during the pandemic
Aug 26, 2021
Restart Radio: A small ask
Aug 12, 2021
Restart Podcast Ep. 66: Ancient cob building, part of a low-tech future
Jul 28, 2021
Restart Radio: Our 2021 Summer Reading List
Jul 14, 2021
Restart Podcast Ep. 65: Saving memories and exposing ‘branded’ repair with Jessa Jones
Jun 29, 2021
Restart Radio: Borrowing boom at Library of Things
Jun 08, 2021
Restart Podcast Ep. 64: Regenerative farming and rural tinkering with Farmerama
May 28, 2021
Restart Radio Republished: When “intellectual property” is lethal
May 13, 2021
Restart Podcast Ep. 63: Badvertising – when ads promote fossil fuels and overconsumption
Apr 29, 2021
Restart Radio Republished: Greenland’s election and Kvanefjeld mine
Apr 14, 2021
Restart Podcast Ep. 62: How 3D printing can help us repair
Mar 25, 2021
Restart Radio: Reusing laptops for digital inclusion with Mer-IT and Hackney Fixers
Mar 10, 2021
Restart Podcast Ep. 61: Introducing the French Repairability Index
Feb 26, 2021
Restart Radio: How manufacturers game the system through voluntary agreements
Feb 11, 2021
Restart Podcast Ep. 60: Helping electronics workers improve conditions
Jan 26, 2021
Restart Radio: What is true digital inclusion?
Jan 14, 2021
Restart Podcast Ep. 59: Lasers lighting up the sky, with Seb Lee-Delisle
Dec 18, 2020
Restart Radio: Lamps at the end of the tunnel — a new lighting refurbishment business
Dec 10, 2020
Restart Podcast Ep. 58: You say you want a Repair Revolution
Nov 27, 2020
Restart Radio: The dangers of serialisation in smartphones with Rico Cerva
Nov 10, 2020
Restart Podcast Ep. 57: “Heroes of Repair” European video series
Oct 28, 2020
Restart Radio Republished: Ada Lovelace Day and the stories of women in STEM
Oct 13, 2020
Restart Podcast Ep. 56: A smartphone OS that respects user data privacy, with Gaël Duval
Sep 22, 2020
Restart Radio: Hackney Fixers’ laptop repair and reuse project
Sep 09, 2020
Restart Podcast Ep. 55: Why we need climate education, with Teach the Future
Jul 28, 2020
Restart Radio: Our 2020 Summer Reading List
Jul 15, 2020
Restart Podcast Ep. 54: Shoes and urgent system change with Tansy Hoskins
Jun 23, 2020
Restart Radio: The urgent need for diversity in tech, and how repair can help
Jun 10, 2020
Restart Podcast Ep. 53: Our low-tech future with Kris De Decker
May 26, 2020
Restart Radio: Apple’s T2 Chip and ownership rights after the first owner
May 13, 2020
Restart Podcast Ep. 52: Combining nostalgia with the new at Armstrong Audio
Apr 30, 2020
Restart Radio: Reuse and repair with two frontline medical professionals
Apr 15, 2020
Restart Podcast Ep. 51: Copyright law, ownership and crisis with Aaron Perzanowski
Mar 27, 2020
Restart Radio: Global supply chains and The Virus
Mar 12, 2020
Restart Podcast Ep. 50: Why we must win the right to repair our smartphones
Feb 26, 2020
Restart Radio: Being smarter about connected devices and security
Feb 12, 2020
Restart Podcast Ep. 49: Tinker travelling with Mend It, Australia
Jan 22, 2020
Restart Podcast Ep. 48: Henrik versus Goliath Corporation
Dec 17, 2019
Restart Podcast Ep. 47: Secondhand around the world with Adam Minter
Nov 26, 2019
Restart Podcast Ep. 46: Stories from our repair data
Oct 24, 2019
Restart Podcast Ep. 45: “No TV left behind” – the quiet importance of television standards
Sep 25, 2019
Restart Radio: Stories from Fixfest Italia
Sep 13, 2019
Restart Podcast Ep. 44: Community infrastructure with Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN)
Jul 26, 2019
Restart Radio: The second lives of computers
Jul 11, 2019
Restart Podcast Ep. 43: A life in art, activism and electronic waste with Ravi Agarwal
Jun 27, 2019
Restart Radio: Climate anxiety and deep adaptation
Jun 13, 2019
Restart Podcast Ep. 42: A computer clinic for (and by) the community
May 30, 2019
Restart Radio: The overlooked but fascinating world of standards
May 16, 2019
Restart Podcast Ep. 41 Exploring waste in space
Apr 25, 2019
Restart Radio: The Iridium anomaly, your mobile and the dinosaurs
Apr 11, 2019
Restart Podcast Ep. 40: When solar lamps break down
Mar 28, 2019
Restart Radio: Growing indoors for Brexit survival
Mar 15, 2019
Restart Podcast Ep. 39: Repair and autonomy in a networked world
Mar 01, 2019
Restart Radio: New Right to Repair rules, broken down by a pro
Feb 15, 2019
Restart Podcast Ep. 38: Inspiring repair with Jane, inventor and founder of Sugru
Jan 24, 2019
Restart Radio: Popular, planet-saving right to repair
Jan 10, 2019
Restart Radio: Greening the internet with Greenpeace
Dec 13, 2018
Restart Podcast Ep. 37: Voices of UK fixers
Nov 28, 2018
Restart Radio: Photographing repair culture
Nov 15, 2018
Restart Podcast Ep. 36: Fixing the impossible with Rico Cerva
Oct 24, 2018
Restart Radio: Celebrating community repair and announcing #RepairDay
Oct 11, 2018
Restart Podcast Ep. 35: Exploring the critical materials in our electronics
Sep 26, 2018
Restart Radio: Welcoming a new Repair Cafe in Glasgow
Sep 13, 2018
Restart Radio Takeover: ‘Smart’ homes – the hype and worries about IoT
Aug 01, 2018
Restart Podcast Ep. 34: Improvisation and collective spirit in Brazilian repair culture
Jul 25, 2018
Restart Radio: Cameras, the eternal and disposable – analog, digital, mobile and GoPros
Jul 18, 2018
Restart Radio: Books on our summer reading list
Jul 11, 2018
Restart Radio: Strong links between thrift and innovation, past and present
Jul 04, 2018
Restart Podcast Ep 33: The lives of products during our lifetime, with Tim Cooper
Jun 26, 2018
Restart Radio: Right to Repair in the United States
Jun 20, 2018
Restart Radio: Community repair events as sites of social research
Jun 13, 2018
Restart Radio: Right to repair and product standards beyond Brexit
Jun 06, 2018
Restart Radio Takeover: “Repair on the edge”
May 30, 2018
Restart Podcast Ep 32: Amateur (ham) radio with Alvin Hardy
May 22, 2018
Restart Radio: Materials we use to hack and fix
May 16, 2018
Restart Radio: 3D printing medical devices in Gaza
May 09, 2018
Restart Radio: Protecting our personal data in an age of connected devices
May 02, 2018
Restart Radio Takeover: “It’s MY device!”
Apr 25, 2018
Restart Podcast Ep 31: Software obsolescence with Ross Anderson
Apr 17, 2018
Restart Radio: Wildlife conservation and the role of open, repairable technology
Apr 11, 2018
Restart Radio: Ada Lovelace Day and the stories of women in STEM
Apr 04, 2018
Restart Radio Takeover: Why we replace our phones
Mar 28, 2018
Restart Podcast Ep 30: Afrotech Fest and Afrofuturism
Mar 20, 2018
Restart Radio: Repairing in school and Apple’s “zero waste”
Mar 14, 2018
Restart Radio: Elinor Ostrom and the commons
Mar 08, 2018
Restart Radio: Rare-earth minerals in Greenland with Lise Autogena and Josh Portway
Mar 02, 2018
Restart Radio Takeover: Why we repair in the community
Feb 22, 2018
Restart Radio: World Radio Day and electronics in the wake of Brexit
Feb 14, 2018
Restart Podcast Ep 29: Tracing global flows of electronic ‘discards’ with Josh Lepawsky
Feb 07, 2018
Restart Radio: Medical technology in/on the body
Jan 31, 2018
Restart Radio: How repair informs design with Beeline
Jan 24, 2018
Restart Podcast Ep. 28: Disruptive design and unlocking wonderment with Leyla Acaroglu
Jan 16, 2018
Restart Radio: Flatpack electronics plus battery and CPU failures
Jan 10, 2018
Restart Radio: What does Bitcoin mining mean for the environment?
Dec 21, 2017
Restart Radio: Voice-controlled Assistants and “Smart Speakers”
Dec 13, 2017
Restart Radio: Exploring personal data at the Glass Room
Dec 06, 2017
Restart Podcast Ep. 27: How to Restart the World with Lewis Dartnell
Nov 29, 2017
Restart Radio: Breaking the world record for community repair
Nov 22, 2017
Restart Radio: Glitch art by refurbisher RDKL Inc
Nov 15, 2017
Restart Radio: Robot pets
Nov 09, 2017
Restart Radio: Open-sourcing the Internet of Things
Nov 01, 2017
Restart Podcast Ep. 26: Fixers united at the first Fixfest
Oct 24, 2017
Restart Radio: Tech repair myths
Oct 18, 2017
Restart Radio: Community repair, neurodiversity and mental health
Oct 11, 2017
Restart Podcast Ep. 25: Goodbye iSlave (Pt.2)
Oct 03, 2017
Restart Podcast Ep. 24: Goodbye iSlave (Pt 1)
Sep 27, 2017
Restart Radio: Camping Gadgets
Sep 19, 2017
Restart Radio: Lovefone’s vision for thriving commercial repair
Sep 13, 2017
Restart Podcast Ep. 23: 5th Birthday Special
Jul 26, 2017
Restart Radio: repairing across generations
Jul 19, 2017
Restart Radio: Can a circular economy be driven by cities?
Jul 13, 2017
Restart Radio: Repair in the U.S. with Fixit Clinic
Jul 05, 2017
Restart Podcast Ep. 22: Greening the internet
Jun 27, 2017
Restart Radio: A second wave of “wearables” for consumers?
Jun 21, 2017
Restart Radio: Keyboards and the durability of interfaces
Jun 14, 2017
Restart Radio: Designing consumer rights and trust
Jun 08, 2017
Restart Radio: 3D sound, hardware and software
Jun 01, 2017
Restart Podcast Ep. 21: Tim Hunkin and the Secret Life of Machines
May 24, 2017
Restart Radio: DIY radiation monitoring with Safecast and ransomware attacks
May 18, 2017
Restart Radio: Digital archaeology with Jim Boulton
May 10, 2017
Restart Radio: TFix and ‘better than new’ repairs
May 04, 2017
Restart Radio: The parallel worlds of the tinkerer and the grower
Apr 28, 2017
Restart Podcast Ep. 20: Maker culture in Shenzhen and sustainable design
Apr 20, 2017
Restart Radio: Sensing gadget failures and frustrations in Belgium
Apr 13, 2017
Restart Radio: The Past and Future of London’s Computer Fairs
Apr 05, 2017
The Restart Podcast Ep. 19: High school repair and the next generation of Restarters
Mar 30, 2017
Restart Radio: Behind the Apple Genius Bar
Mar 27, 2017
Restart Radio: The small but powerful Raspberry Pi
Mar 15, 2017
Restart Radio: Hoverboards and throw-away toys for ‘big kids’
Mar 09, 2017
Restart Podcast ep. 18: Gendered gadgets
Mar 01, 2017
Restart Radio: The language of our gadgets
Feb 22, 2017
Restart Radio: Saving whitegoods from waste
Feb 17, 2017
Restart Radio: Sustaining Virtual Reality
Feb 09, 2017
Restart Podcast Ep. 17: Drones aren’t just for Christmas
Feb 02, 2017
Restart Radio: Sifting through London’s recycling woes
Jan 26, 2017
Restart Radio: Backups and ‘the cloud’
Jan 18, 2017
Restart Radio: The Future of Personal Listening
Jan 12, 2017
Restart Radio: The Challenges of Winter
Dec 22, 2016
Restart Radio: E-toys and connected toys
Dec 16, 2016
Restart Podcast Ep. 16: Steve the Spindoctor (part 2/2)
Dec 08, 2016
Restart Podcast Ep 15: Steve the Spindoctor (Part 1/2)
Dec 01, 2016
Restart Radio: Black Friday and consumer confidence
Nov 24, 2016
Restart Radio: Policy tips from Brussels
Nov 17, 2016
Restart Radio: Restarting in Leicester
Nov 11, 2016
Restart Radio: Connected device horrors
Nov 04, 2016
Restart Radio: Have we taken thin too far?
Nov 02, 2016
Restart Podcast Ep 14: Boosting reuse
Oct 20, 2016
Restart Radio: Revealing our repair economy
Oct 06, 2016
Restart Radio: The age of the remote kill switch
Sep 28, 2016
Restart Podcast Ep 13: Updates… the good, the bad and the meh
Sep 20, 2016
Restart Radio: 3D printing, from prosthetics to blender spare parts
Sep 15, 2016
Restart Radio: Eco-labelling of laptops
Sep 13, 2016
Restart Radio: A phone box turns repair shop
Sep 05, 2016
Restart Radio: How long our stuff should last
Jul 28, 2016
Restart Radio: Mobile and retro-gaming (Pokémon GO content warning!)
Jul 21, 2016
Restart Radio: A community repair revival in Argentina
Jul 14, 2016
Restart Podcast Ep 12: A natural history of our gadgets
Jul 06, 2016
Restart Radio: A tour of the Youtube repair “ecosystem”
Jun 30, 2016
Restart Radio: Women who build PCs
Jun 23, 2016
Restart Radio: Young people and future product design
Jun 19, 2016
Restart Podcast Ep 11: A Screen Repair Odyssey
Jun 09, 2016
Restart Radio: Keeping a green and quality kitchen
Jun 01, 2016
Restart Radio: Repair as a sensory experience
May 25, 2016
Restart Radio: New drives extend lives of computers and gadgets
May 20, 2016
Restart Radio: The “Red Ring of Death” and new repair businesses
May 11, 2016
Restart Radio: selling and buying secondhand electronics
May 05, 2016
Restart Podcast Ep 10: Getting “closure”, saying goodbye to gadgets
Apr 26, 2016
Restart Radio: Unpacking Marie Kondo, reflecting on decluttering
Apr 21, 2016
Restart Radio: guitars, cloud kill switches and bots
Apr 13, 2016
Restart Radio: Community spaces, gadgets for (April) fools
Apr 07, 2016
Restart Radio: carbon emissions, robotic recycling and older PCs
Mar 30, 2016
Restart Podcast Ep 9: “Emotionally durable design”
Mar 24, 2016
Restart Radio: Opto Noise, making music with lasers and e-waste
Mar 16, 2016
Restart Radio: Europe, your toaster and your mobile
Mar 09, 2016
Restart Radio: Documentary photography of abandoned e-stuff
Mar 02, 2016
Restart Podcast Ep 8: Tools, new and old
Feb 23, 2016
Restart Radio: Beyond petitions and boycotts – influencing companies
Feb 17, 2016
Restart Radio: Makers and fixers, “Error 53” iPhone scandal
Feb 10, 2016
Restart Radio: Getting hands-on with solar
Feb 03, 2016
Restart Radio: tracing minerals, and “peak stuff”
Jan 21, 2016
Restart Radio: Spare parts, consumer hype and a pre-emptive petition
Jan 14, 2016
Restart Podcast Ep 7: The past, present and future of gadget ownership
Jan 11, 2016
Restart Radio: Firefox OS for phones is over and the Bolivian WALL-E
Dec 20, 2015
Restart Radio: top 5 good news stories of 2015
Dec 09, 2015
Restart Podcast Ep 6: where do our gadgets go when they die?
Nov 27, 2015
Restart Radio: Adele and Autechre Special… music, media and audio equipment
Nov 24, 2015
Restart Radio: The Big Fix and the art of glitches
Nov 19, 2015
Restart Radio: breaking the mobile mould
Nov 11, 2015
Restart Radio: from changing plugs to changing the world
Nov 04, 2015
Restart Radio: from repairing bikes to smartphones
Oct 31, 2015
Restart Radio: where are the women fixers?
Oct 21, 2015
Restart Podcast Ep 5: How repair economies can thrive (again)
Oct 16, 2015
Restart Radio: “Volkswagening” by electronics manufacturers?
Oct 08, 2015
Restart Radio: new mobiles we can open, repair
Sep 29, 2015
Restart Radio: shopping malls and six-pack of tablets
Sep 24, 2015
Restart Radio: the upgrade cycle and recycling
Sep 16, 2015
Restart Podcast Ep 4: Climate change and the “shadow impacts” of our gadgets
Sep 01, 2015
Restart Podcast Ep 3: Searching for the roots of grassroots innovation
Jun 29, 2015
Restart Podcast Ep 2: Interview with a product designer
May 07, 2015
Introducing the Restart Podcast
Apr 08, 2015