I’m not the only entrepreneur to have made the transition to activist over the past 16 months, but few have quite such a high-profile track record as my latest guest. Rachel Elnaugh created the experience gift sector — aged just 24 — when she launched Red Letter Days in 1989 and her early success won her a seat in the launch series of Dragons’ Den. But while she was assessing other businesses in the Den, her own came close to going under and she had to sell, regroup, and finally find a new path as an ‘evolutionary entrepreneur’. Her challenges have not only informed the books she’s since written, the talks she’s delivered, and the mentoring she’s provided to a new generation of entrepreneurs but are now informing her own response to the pandemic. Nine months after first raising her concerns in a YouTube video that went viral, she’s now back in the public eye, but this time applying some of her same entrepreneurial thinking and principles to not just question everything but also to seek out radical solutions. Join me at 5pm BST when I’ll be exploring Rachel’s journey and where she believes we could be heading if we don’t find compelling answers fast. PS Please subscribe to the Pandemic Podcast at http://www.danjgregory.com/pandemic

Even the most ardent follower of the official narrative must by now be finding it a challenge to argue that our children and young people have not paid a very heavy psychological price for the Government’s Covid-19 response. And they continue to pay: even though the messaging is a little more muted now, we are still cloaked in an overarching mantle of fear with the threat of further punitive measures — especially in schools — never far away. My guest tonight is Dr Zenobia Storah, an independent child and adolescent clinical psychologist who has seen at first-hand the damage done to our young people over the past 18 months by a raft of disproportionate responses including lockdowns, mask-wearing, and testing, as well as the devastating impact of the unrelenting fear-mongering. She is a member of the Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART), has provided expert witness reports in legal claims brought by children challenging public health policy, and was among the speakers at last month’s Question Everything one-day Lockdown Summit. Join me at 5pm when I will explore with Dr Storah the catalogue of harms she and her colleagues have personally witnessed and — crucially — what we can do right now to both help young people begin to recover and safeguard their future mental health in these most uncertain and disturbing of times. Subscribe to the Pandemic Podcast http://www.danjgregory.com/pandemic