Looking Sideways Action Sports Podcast
Episodes
Episode 262: Julie Maughan and Chris Hines - Dirty Business
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Looking Sideways, I speak to Julie Maughan and Chris Hines about Dirty Business, the recent Channel 4 drama exposing the state of t...
Episode 261: Calum Macintyre - Ski Fossil Free
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the final episode of my three-part Winter Olympics series, in which we’re tackling one of the biggest controversies surrounding the recen...
Episode 260: Lesley McKenna - Risk Aesthetic
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second of three post–Winter Olympics episodes in which I am examining the recent Winter Olympics from a variety of different perspect...
Episode 259: Tim Warwood & Ed Leigh - The View From The Booth
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first of three post–Winter Olympics episodes in which we’ll examine the recent Games from a number of different perspectives.As a l...
Episode 258: Alice Sainsbury - Design Justice
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Sainsbury is a designer, writer and speaker who in 2015 was diagnosed with an acute neurological condition called transverse myelitis.Since then...
Episode 257: Orlando von Einsiedel - The Cycle of Love
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Oscar-winner, snowboarder, and one of the most influential documentary filmmakers working today, Orlando von Einsiedel makes his return to the show, n...
Episode 256: Axel Pauporté - Pioneer
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If you ask me, this week’s guest Axel Pauporte is one of the most influential snowboarders of the 1990s and 2000s.Even if you don’t know his name,...
Episode 255: Tim & Gendle - Festive Special!
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s December 24th. Which must means it’s time for my much-loved Festive Special with close friends-of-the-show Tim Warwood and Adam Gendle!This m...
Episode 254: Adam Skolnick - Fellow Traveller
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--Filmmaker, surfer, seeker and - OK, then - influencer: Seth Hughes is one of British surfi...
The Announcement: Len Necefer - Pragmatism Beats Purity
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest follow-up episode to The Announcement, I’m joined by activist, entrepreneur, engineer, and policy researcher Len Necefer for a conver...
Episode 253: Seth Hughes - Apprentice to Land and Sea
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--Filmmaker, surfer, seeker and - OK, then - influencer: Seth Hughes is one of British surfi...
Episode 252: Ed Templeton - Work Works
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--Skateboarder, photographer, artist, Toy Machine company owner - Ed Templeton is one of ska...
Episode 251: Thomas Campbell - Yi-Wo
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--Legendary surf and skate film-maker Thomas Campbell’s new film Yi-Wo has been ten years ...
The Announcement: MAD//FEST Live Special - Effective Activism for Brands
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this fourth follow-up episode of The Announcement, which was recorded live at MAD Fest in early July 2025, I’m exploring a question that is direc...
Episode 250: Jeremy Jones - Between Thought and Expression
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--250 episodes of Looking Sideways! And to mark the occasion, I invited the great Jeremy Jon...
Rerun: Episode 079 - Jamie Thomas
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I have my 250th episode of Looking Sideways coming up! And I’m also very close to hitting a rather large Substack subscriber milestone, which itself...
Episode 249: Wes Siler - Trump's Attack On The Outdoors
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--As America's current democratic crisis has unfolded over the last few months, I’ve ponde...
The Announcement: John Elkington and Louise Kjellerup-Roper
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this third follow-up episode of The Announcement, I'm sharing my original January 2024 conversation with John Elkington and Louise Kjellerup Roper ...
Episode 248: Lucy Walker - Ways of Seeing
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS10 for 10% off anything from Finisterre--What happens when one of the world's foremost documentary filmmakers turns her lens on the...
The Announcement: We Are Citizens, Not Consumers
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this second follow-up episode of The Announcement, I explore a crucial counterbalance to the billionaire-driven change narrative: the power of citi...
Episode 247: Truls Brataas - How I Built Db
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 15% off anything from Db Journey.--The notion of the visionary founder is the most ubiquitous of modern tropes.It is also one ...
The Announcement: The Myth of the 'Good' Billionaire
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this first follow-up Announcement episode, I explore a question which I began to examine in episode two of The Announcement, and which is now at th...
Episode 246: Les Seddon Brown - Vision of Excellence
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Use SIDE25WAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his w...
Episode 245: Ed Templeton - Soul & Surf
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Use SIDE25WAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--Packing it all in to lead your dream lifestyle in an exotic location is a...
The Announcement Episode 3: Legacy
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Well, I think the simple answer, and nothing here is simple, is that capitalism dies with its mistakes.” - John Elkington, Founder, VolansPatagon...
The Announcement Episode 2: Scrutiny
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Whenever anybody with that level of wealth and power moves money into an opaque system, we should wave our red democracy flag, and say, ‘However ...
The Announcement Episode 1: Decision
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Going purpose, not going public.”Patagonia’s September 2022 decisions to make ‘Earth’ the company’s only shareholder was huge news, parti...
Introducing The Announcement
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Earth is our only shareholder.”In September 2022, Patagonia's billionaire owner Yvon Chouinard relinquished control and made 'earth' the company's ...
Episode 244: Tim & Gendle - Festive Special!
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS massive discounts on ski and snowboard hire from my friends at Intersport Rent. --Ah, Christmas. A time of friends, family and tra...
Episode 243: Chris Nelson - Marching On Together
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--Regulars who’ve been following Looking Sideways at all closely for the la...
Rerun: Episode 242 - Greg Stump
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use my Intersport discount code LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for huge savings on ski and snowboard rental this winter. --One of the odd things about podcasting (at...
Episode 241: Jordy Smith - Jordy's Game
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--As anybody who’s watched your typical softball chat-show conversation wil...
Episode 240: Jamie Brisick - Third
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--What a treat to welcome the great Jamie Brisick back for his third Looking ...
Episode 239: Laura Crane - Hear My Story
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off anything from session at The Wave in Bristol!--Over the last year, it’s been one of the biggest stories in British surfi...
Episode 238: Tommy Guerrero - A Vehicle For Your Voice
08 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 15% off anything from Stance socks.--I’m joined by one of THE all time greats this week: Tommy Guerrero, legendary skateboar...
Episode 237: Hallvard Kolltveit - From The North Country
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 15% off any Db luggage or bag - and click here to see my other discounts.--Hallvard Kolltveit describes himself as ‘the surf...
Episode 235: Nick Russell - In The High Alpine
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 15% off any Db luggage or bag - and click here to see my other discounts.--Nick Russell is one of those rare snowboarders who...
Episode 234: Liz Clark - Here Be Monsters
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use SIDEWAVES10 for 10% off any session at the Wave - and click here to see my other discounts.--How do you find an original angle with somebody who’...
Episode 233: Dan Adams, Paul Sunman and Wig Worland - Read and Destroy
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 15% off any Stance socks - and click here to see my other discount codes.--Regular listeners will know that British skateboar...
Episode 231: Will Cockrell - The Business of Everest
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 15% off any Stance socks - and click here to see my other discount codes.--As regular listeners will know, I don't often cove...
Episode 230: Looking Sideways x Db Journey Creative Exchange - Responsible Travel
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 15% off any Db bag - and click here to see my other discount codes.I’ve been really enjoying the recent online ‘Creative E...
Episode 229: Freddie Meadows - RÁN
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 10% off any Finisterre purchase - and click here to see my other discount codes.When Freddie Meadows finally surfed RÁN, it s...
Episode 228: Calum Macintyre - Direct Action
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why is direct action important? Why is there such apathy as our democratic right to protest is being removed? How can the outdoor community and indust...
Episode 226: Eric Blehm - The Darkest White
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 15% off any Db snowboard bag - and click here to see my other discount codesEric Blehm is a journalist and author who has had ...
Episode 224: Liz Bui and Jeff Martin - Yulex
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Use LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for 10% off any Finisterre purchase - and click here to see my other discount codes If you’ve been following Looking Sideways fo...
Episode 223: Thomas Campbell - Redux
04 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's a return visit for friend-of-the-show Thomas Campbell this week, who is, as I said last year, ‘one of surfing and skateboarding’s most import...
Episode 222: Skin Phillips - After The Goldrush
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Photographer Skin Phillips, this week’s guest, has had one of the most extraordinary careers in British skateboarding. Completely self-taught, and d...
Episode 221: Tim & Gendle - Festive Special!
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ah, Christmas. A time of friends, family and tradition - which in Looking Sideways world means the much loved Festive Special with my close pals and s...
Episode 220: Maddie Meddings, Rebecca Coley, Chris Nelson, Owen Tozer - London Surf Film Festival Special!
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The roadshow continues! Following my recent Roundtable live, recorded at the Kendal Mountain Festival, I’m back with yet another special panel discu...
Episode 219: Looking Sideways x The Adventure Podcast Roundtable Special!
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to an extra-special episode of Roundtable, free for all subscribers, and a collaboration with my pal and podcasting peer Matt Pycroft of the b...
Episode 218: Gavin Fernie Jones - Citizen
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you follow what I do at all closely, whether through my newsletter or my podcast, you’ll know that ‘how we talk about activism and the climate’...
Episode 217: Adam Gendle & Johno Verity - Here, Hold My Kid
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I go back 25 years with these Adam Gendle and Johno Verity, my guests this week. We met back in the late 90s through snowboarding. But looking back, m...
Episode 216: Ray Barbee - The Power of the Pulse
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wearelookingsideways.comPaid subscribers! This episode comes with an extra 15 minute...
Bonus Episode: Looking Sideways x Vans x CALM panel discussion with Schoph, Andrew Cotton and Helena Long
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the latest in an irregular series of bonus episodes of the Looking Sideways Action Sports podcast.No fuss, no fanfare, just a non-tradition...
Episode 215: Cliff Kapono - Brother Cliff
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The average professional surf, skate or snow career tends to follow a pretty set path. Five-to-ten years at the top, usually from the mid-teens to lat...
Episode 213: Thomas Campbell - Sit In The Chair
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Looking Sideways is proudly ad-free and reader and listener supported. Thanks to all my paid subscribers, who help keep the podcast and newsletter fre...
Episode 212: Matt George - Last of the Surf Romantics
06 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When legendary surf writer Matt George got in touch asking if he could come on the show to chat about his new book In Deep, I was all in.In Deep is a ...
Episode 210: Looking Sideways Roundtable
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
July 23rd noteThere's no new episode this week, so I thought that just this one I would lift the paywall on the first episode of Rondtable, the new di...
Episode 211: Gilly McArthur - What She Said
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I’m on quite a run at the moment when it comes to chatting to wise, inspiring and talented women, and this ace chat with my pal Gilly Macarthur cont...
Episode 209: Melody Sky - Histoire de Melody
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a classic lifer episode of Looking Sideways with my pal Melody Sky!If you’re somebody who scans the name of the guest and thinks ‘never...
Episode 208: Easkey Britton - Ebb and Flow
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Easkey Britton alert!Yep, I’ve got my old pal Easkey back on the show this week for her second visit, a mere six years after we first chatted for th...
Episode 207: Elias Elhardt - Different Hearts Beating
14 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I welcomed one of snowboarding’s modern greats back onto the show for this episode: Elias Elhardt.If you’ve heard our previous conversation, or wa...
Episode 206: Chris Burkard Live
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“I don't consider myself a world traveller because I haven't travelled the world. I literally found the 10 places I love and just keep going back. B...
Episode 205: Lucy Small and Maddie Meddings - Yama Surf
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After episode 204’s polarising conversation with Steven Kotler, regular service resumes this week, with this lovely chat with surfers and film-maker...
Episode 204: Steven Kotler - Do Not Go Gentle
09 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everything we know about ageing is wrong - and action sports are the perfect tool through which to test this hypothesis.At least, that’s the content...
Type 2: Episode 030 - Jenna Johnson
02 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activis...
Bonus: Chris Burkard Live!
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“I don't consider myself a world traveller because I haven't travelled the world. I literally found the 10 places I love and just keep going back. B...
Episode 203: Stan Evans - Hidden Histories
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we choose the stories we tell? Who gets to write the histories we decide sum up our collective past? And what’s the impact when equally valid...
Episode 202: Alex Weller - London Calling
05 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lifer alert! Yep, this conversation with my old pal and current head of creative at Patagonia in Ventura Alex Weller is another classic of this quinte...
Rerun: Episode 131 - Leo Baker
26 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen now (57 min) | This week I am reposting my summer 2020 conversation with none binary trans skater Leo.The search for our authentic self is a li...
Episode 201: Tom Kay - For the Love of the Sea
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the first leg of an impromptu south west omnibus as I catch up with my pal and Finisterre founder Tom Kay who is returning visit to the pod for...
Episode 200: Nick Hounsfield - The Journey is the Destination
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Milestone alert! 200 episodes!Yep, six years and countless HKC rants later, episode 200 is finally here. And I’ve decided to mark this landmark occa...
Type 2: Episode 029 - Nick Hayes
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Give people a personal relationship with nature and they’re not going to commodify it. There is something more sacred out there, and that is natu...
Episode 199: Nathan Gallagher - On Validation
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Looking Sideways is proudly ad-free and reader and listener supported. Massive thanks to all my paid subscribers, who help keep the podcast and newsle...
Bonus: Housekeeping Corner - Why I Am (Finally) Going Paid
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A special Housekeeping Corner bonus episode about why I am shifting the entire podcast and newsletter over to Substack and introducing a partial paywa...
Rerun: Episode 137 - Christina Koch
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does it feel to go into space? What does it make you feel about the future of our planet, and your own place in the universe? What are the moral i...
Episode 198: Tim & Gendle - Festive Special!
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Festive Special!Mince pies. Carols. Mistletoe. The John Lewis ad. Festive tunes on endless repeat. Yep, Christmas is a time of tradition. And in Looki...
Type 2: Episode 028 - Lewis Arnold and Chris Nelson
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode is a double header with my friends Lewis Arnold and Chris Nelson, two absolute stalwarts of the UK surf community who for the la...
Episode 197: Kimmy Fasani - Luminosity
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Death isn't scary to me. Dying isn’t scary to me. I’ve seen it, and I’ve been close to it.”When my friend at Whitelines magazine asked me t...
Episode 196: James Joiner - Flyover Country
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lifer alert!It’s been a while since I had a good, honest lifer chat on the show, and this episode with my pal James Joiner is a rambling comfort bla...
Episode 195: Chris Moran - The Good Ship
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to interview people who’ve had a real influence on my life. But Chris Moran, this week’s guest, has proba...
Episode 194: Joel Gray - Inside The Tent
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty four years after snowboarding made its Olympic bow, the often fractious relationship between action sports and the Olympics feels poised to ent...
Bonus episode: Hossegor omnibus
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the latest in an irregular series of bonus episodes of the Looking Sideways Action Sports podcast.No fuss, no fanfare, just a non-tradition...
Type 2: Episode 027 - Keme Nzerem
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“We are increasingly aware that the construction of the outdoors, as a concept, has historically been the gnarled, wizened white guy in a puffer jac...
Type 2: Episode 026 - Soraya Abdel-Hadi
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I’m very hyper-aware of my privilege and background, so I didn’t feel like I was the right person to be speaking on these subjects. But people ...
Episode 193: Chris Burkard - Original
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is Chris Burkard the most influential visual artist at work in the outdoors today? It’s difficult to think of anybody else who has shaped the conver...
Episode 192: Sage Kotsenburg - Rambo Season
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When one of the legends drops the guard to show some vulnerability and openness, it has real impact. This is one reason why my episode with Jamie Thom...
Episode 191: Bonnie Tsui - Why We Swim
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A mere four years after I had Ross Edgeley on the show, I’ve finally managed to book another swimmer! Yes my guest for this episode is the great Bon...
Episode 190: Stacy Peralta - Lightness of Being
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It wouldn’t be possible to produce Looking Sideways without support from readers and listeners. Subscribe below to support the show. Let’s start w...
Type 2: Episode 025 - Rebecca Olive
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“My approach to activism is to not be too ‘shouty’. Instead, it’s how can I bring someone along with me? I try in my writing to be even more g...
Episode 189: Kepa Acero - Reborn
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It wouldn’t be possible to produce Looking Sideways without support from readers and listeners. Subscribe below to support the show. Kepa Acero is o...
Episode 188: Christa Funk - Wave of Acceptance
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comEpisode 2 of my Hossegor omnibus in association with Db! And my guest for this instalment is...
Episode 187: Tim Myers - Human Interest
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comMy guest this week is Tim Myers, an award-winning and renowned cameraman, cinematographer, j...
Type 2: Episode 024 - Adam Hall
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Type 2 is a podcast from Looking Sideways in association with Patagonia that explores the intersection between the outdoors, action sports and activis...
Episode 186: Wig Worland - On The Road Again
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Full episode and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThis week’s guest is photographer Wig Worland, one of the most respected and influential p...
Episode 185: Mikey Corker - Savage Waters
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comThere are many layers to this week’s conversation with surfer, director, film-maker,...
Episode 184: Ewan Wallace - The Joy of Friendship
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comIs there anything better than catching up with an old friend after a long break, and p...
Episode 183: Shaun Tomson - The Light Shines Ahead
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comLet’s get straight to it - I’ve got one of surfing’s all-time great legends on t...
Episode 182: Lesley, Lauren and Hannah - Triumvirate
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comWhen does cultural guardianship become another form of toxic gatekeeping? How can you ...
Episode 181: Pat Bridges - The Eye
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Full episodes info and Show Notes - www.wearelookingsideways.comSound the geek klaxon! Yep, this week’s conversation with legit US snowboarding lege...