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362: David Attenborough at 100
Monarch butterflies crossing a continent. Peregrine falcons above Manhattan. A giant lemur most of the world had never heard of, until one man pointed a camera at it. For seventy years, Sir David Attenborough has been asking us to look - really look - at the world we share with three and a half billion years' worth of other life.
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Season 12 Nature + Climate
361: “This is civilisation changing stuff”: Is AMOC the hardest climate story to tell?
30 April 2026
Europe plunged into a deep freeze. Life as we know it upended. The 2004 film ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ gave a generation of terrified journalists an impossible task: how do you communicate the counter intuitive threat of dramatically colder winters caused by global warming? David Shukman was one of them.
Season 12 Energy + Climate
360: Beyond the Oil Crisis: What’s actually blocking the transition?
23 April 2026
The Iran crisis continues to prove how dangerously dependent the global economy is on fossil fuels. But what will it actually take to move beyond them?
Season 12 Health, Wellbeing + Climate
359: It’s In Our Blood: Communities vs Forever Chemicals
16 April 2026
There are chemicals in your blood that weren't there fifty years ago. They are in the products you use, the water you drink, the food you eat - and for years, almost nobody was told the full truth about the risk.
Past Episodes
Season 12
358: The Health Emergency Hiding in Rising Seas
Season 12
357: Forecasting Disaster: A ‘super’ El Niño? And the case for early action
Season 12
356: Flooded: Is extreme weather shifting the climate front lines?
Season 12
355: The Iran Crisis and the Price of Oil Dependence
Season 12
354: Water, Wildlife, and Climate’s Hidden Trade-Offs
Season 12
353: Who Will Pay? | The Unfair Economics of Climate Finance
Season 12
352: Catastrophe Apathy: Why understanding the climate crisis isn’t enough
Season 12
351: Trump Moves to Dismantle US Climate Law - Now Comes the Legal Test
Season 12
350: Who Wields Power Now?: Money, Movements and the Future of Climate
