Seasons greetings listeners, and what a festive treat Tom and Sam have for you this episode. This week we welcome Lucy Siegle back to the studio, before listening to Brother Spirit and Brother Embrace, Zen Monks from Plum Village, as they impar

The Activist

Dec 16th, 2021 34m 38s

Tzeporah Berman started her climate career cooking for activists at a camp protesting anti-felling in British Columbia. A year later she was arrested in the same place, microphone in hand, as one of the movements' leading climate defenders. Sin

The General

Dec 9th, 2021 38m 50s

It isn't often you meet a General, but this week retired four star US army General Stanley McChrystal shares his wisdom after a lifetime of military service. Sam and Tom sat down to ask hard hitting questions about the military and it's respons

The Indigenous Communicator

Dec 2nd, 2021 42m 24s

This week Tom and Sam are joined by Shirley Djukurna Krenak, member of the Brazilian Krenak community, and a leading activist for Indigenous voices within the climate movement. Recorded at COP26, Shirley has travelled across the world to incre

The Negotiator

Nov 25th, 2021 42m 52s

Farhana Yamin is one of the most influential environmental lawyers and climate policy experts in Britain. This week she chats to Tom and Sam to talk through the past 30 years in the climate world, from convincing world leaders the climate crisi

The March

Nov 19th, 2021 47m 25s

We're back! Listeners, welcome to Series 2, and boy do we have a series in store for you.This week Tom, Lucy and brand new host Sam are going to transport you to COP26. You've seen it all over the news but what actually goes on at COP? And

Introducing... Outrage + Optimism

Aug 18th, 2020 16m 14s

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Pass The Mic

Aug 11th, 2020 1h 11m

We have reached the finale of season one! Thank you so much for joining us on the journey so far. To celebrate, Lucy and Tom do something a bit different - they pass the mic to the next generation of nature and climate storytellers, photographe

This Shit Works!

Aug 4th, 2020 1h 8m

We speak to two innovators who have taken unappealing subjects that nobody wants to talk about – sewage and bugs, respectively - and made them compelling! Hugo Tagholm is the CEO of Surfers Against Sewage, the Cornish NGO that has morphed from

Bill Kills

Jul 28th, 2020 1h 5m

Guest: Bill McKibben: Author, Educator, Environmentalist & Founder of 350.orgFor years we have been told that the way we do things is set in stone. That we cannot change the system. But that is not true, and the system is collapsing. New stor

Public Service Broadcasting

Jul 21st, 2020 1h 16m

Entertainment shows from broadcasting giants have incredible power to transmit ideas to huge audiences. Research shows that across countries, we pay more attention to TV on climate than we do to any other forms of media. But on the whole, big b

Messages from the Frontline

Jul 14th, 2020 1h 40m

In the struggle to protect land, water and natural resources Indigenous people have always been on the frontline. These conflicts effect us all - if the Amazon burns, if oil is drilled in the Arctic, if Indonesian forests are felled, we all fa

War of the Words

Jul 7th, 2020 1h 17m

Can we harness the power of language more effectively to focus minds on nature and climate? That’s what this episode aims to find out. For some reason when discussing the planetary crisis we’ve often found it really difficult to get the languag

Popularity Contest

Jun 30th, 2020 1h 7m

Ellie Goulding is a self-confessed ‘nature nerd’ who grew up in rural Hereford. She’s also a global star with two #1 albums, two BRIT Awards, over 132 million singles sold, 22 billion streams and 5 billion views on YouTube. She felt it was her

‘I Was An Organiser Before I Was Born’

Jun 23rd, 2020 1h 9m

Reporting on frontline environmental issues is the second most dangerous field of journalism after war reporting, and defending and organising can lead to a person being sued, criminalised, attacked, murdered or disappeared. Defending the livin

Bad News Day

Jun 16th, 2020 58m 34s

The climate and nature emergency is the story of our lives, so why has it been covered so badly and how are we going to change that? This week’s guest, George Monbiot provides answers and truth bombs. George is renowned for his fearless uncompr

Hail Marys! (+ Amy)

Jun 9th, 2020 1h 19m

This episode is about justice; climate justice. In this two-part special Lucy and Tom get to grips with one of the biggest problems with talking about nature and climate - forgetting to include people.The climate and nature crisis isn't fair

An Optimism Workout with Christiana Figueres

Jun 3rd, 2020 48m 37s

After last week’s lesson from Sir David Attenborough, Lucy and Tom continue their mission to deliver more impact in nature and climate reporting. In this episode they catch up with the planet’s most famous climate diplomat, ‘big hitter’, Christ

Sir David Attenborough

May 26th, 2020 54m 41s

This episode looks at the work of the world’s premiere nature broadcaster, one of the most trusted voices in the world. We ask Sir David Attenborough what he has learnt, what he would do if he was starting his career now, how we can use wonder

Trailer

May 13th, 2020 4m 7s

So Hot Right now is a new podcast on a mission to change the conversation about nature and the climate crisis, launching on the 26th May.To save the world we need to change the story. Nature and the climate are in crisis. To survive we must u

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