Jonny Oates's guest appearances

Jonny Oates

Iain Dale's Book Club

Iain Dale All Talk

Biteback Chats Books

Peter Cardwell

Andrew Adonis

Jacqui Smith

Alastair Campbell

Liam Halligan

David Starkey

Kevin Meagher

Iain Dale

Mitchell Reiss

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Douglas Murray

Steve Richards

Deborah Mattinson

Richard Evans

Peter Dickson

OwlTail

Iain Dale talks to LibDem Peer and former chief of staff to Nick Clegg in the Coalition years, Jonny Oates, now Lord Oates about his book I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN. He talks movingly about running away to Addis Ababa as a 15  year old, his work in Zimbabwe and South Africa and his career as a public affairs consultant. He discusses how the coalition came into being, what it was like working for Nick Clegg, and where the Liberal Democrats go from here.

Chapter 111 : Jonny Oates

How would you go about changing the world? For fifteen-year-old Jonny Oates, the answer was simple: he boarded a plane to Addis Ababa with the intention of tackling the Ethiopian famine. The thirty years that followed taught him that creating change wasn't that easy... Listen to him talk about his mental health, his time in the coalition government and his love of Africa in this week's edition of the Biteback podcast!   Music Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

How would you go about changing the world? For fifteen-year-old Jonny Oates, the answer was simple: he boarded a plane to Addis Ababa with the intention of tackling the Ethiopian famine. The thirty years that followed taught him that creating change wasn't that easy... Listen to him talk about his mental health, his time in the coalition government and his love of Africa in this week's edition of the Biteback podcast! Music Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod Link: <a href="https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama</a> License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>

Jonny Oates on trying to change the world