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SIMON DALBY - Author of Pyromania: Fire and Geopolitics in a Climate-Disrupted World
Season 11
Wildfire season is starting earlier and lasting longer due to global warming across the world. What will we do to save the world on fire? How can we …
2 years, 8 months ago
Highlights - MARK MASLIN - Author of How To Save Our Planet: The Facts - Professor, Earth System Science, UCLondon
Season 11
"And what's very interesting is that at the moment there is this mass movement of people to our cities, making them megacities. And so we are actuall…
2 years, 9 months ago
MARK MASLIN - Author of How To Save Our Planet: The Facts - Professor, Earth System Science, University College London
Season 11
Can we imagine a world where we leave half the earth to the natural environment and use the other half for ourselves? Can we change history and prote…
2 years, 9 months ago
Highlights - Erland Cooper - Scottish Composer, Producer, Multi-instrumentalist
Season 11
“One of our great British artists is Brian Eno, and he spoke a lot about limitations. I had the great joy of having a conversation. We ended up chatt…
2 years, 9 months ago
Erland Cooper - Nature’s Songwriter - Composer of “Folded Landscapes”
Season 11
How has music transported you? Where do you find inspiration from the natural world? Where do you find moments of every day magic?
Erland Cooper is a…
2 years, 9 months ago
Highlights - SERGEI GURIEV - Political Economist - Provost of SciencesPo - Co-author of Spin Dictators
Season 11
"About 15 years ago, we still didn't have 3G, 4G, 5G internet, that only started about 15 years ago. And then only 10 years ago we saw the real rise …
2 years, 9 months ago
SERGEI GURIEV - Economist - Provost of SciencesPo - Co-author of Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Season 11
What is a spin dictator? What does tyranny look like in the 21st century? Why is populism on the rise? And how do we reinvent democracy?
Sergei Guriev…
2 years, 9 months ago
Highlights - JASON deCAIRES TAYLOR - Sculptor, Environmentalist, Creator of Underwater Museums
Season 11
"We actually have some new works which have scientific monitoring devices in them. They actually have little sensors in them that monitor temperature…
2 years, 9 months ago
JASON deCAIRES TAYLOR - Sculptor, Environmentalist, Creator of Underwater Museums
Season 11
What if museums weren’t confined to buildings but could be part of the natural world? What if sculptures could not only celebrate our oceans, but als…
2 years, 9 months ago
Highlights - DOMINIC McAFEE - Marine Ecologist, University of Adelaide - Restoring Lost Oyster Reefs
Season 11
"We've lost something like 85% of oyster reefs globally. In Australia it's over 99%. We've smashed this ecosystem to smithereens. It covered somethin…
2 years, 9 months ago