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Rare Earth
Episode 1 - Is Nature Better Off Without Us?
- Broadcast
- 2024 (52 mins)
Episode one sees Tom and Helen explore the thorny issue of humans’ relationship with nature. They ask: should we simply leave wild spaces alone to thrive, or must we carefully manage natural habitats for...
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Episode 16 - Save Our Seabirds
- Broadcast
- 2024 (52 mins)
Seabirds face many challenges - avian flu, plastic pollution, overfishing and climate change have all had an impact - but despite all of this, these resilient birds are surviving and in some cases, thriving....
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Episode 15 - How to Floodproof a City
- Broadcast
- 2024 (52 mins)
Tom Heap and Helen Czerski meet the people with fresh ideas to combat rising sea levels, from Enfield to Indonesia. Average sea levels across the world are rising fast. That puts 570 cities with a combined...
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Episode 14 - The seabed: out of sight, out of mind?
- Broadcast
- 2024 (53 mins)
Over the centuries, bottom-trawling activities have transformed our coastal seas both ecologically and physically, mostly for the worse. As the habitat has declined, so has the success of fisheries. Is it...
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Episode 13 - World On Fire
- Broadcast
- 2024 (52 mins)
Is the rise in global wild fires unstoppable? Helen Czerski and Tom Heap discuss the terrifying march of the flames and search for fresh answers. They’re joined by John Vaillant, author of the award-wining...
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Episode 12 - The Future of Meat
- Broadcast
- 2024 (52 mins)
Can meat ever be environmentally friendly, or do we need better substitutes? Helen Czerski and Tom Heap discuss the cutting edge technology being developed to reduce the carbon cost of our diet.
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Episode 11 - Can an oil rig be a nature reserve?
- Broadcast
- 2024 (52 mins)
What should we do with our old oil rigs? Can the relics of the fossil fuel age be good for wildlife? Helen Czerski and Tom Heap investigate the future for the steel and concrete that’s fuelled the modern...
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Episode 10 - Environment and the General Election
- Broadcast
- 2024 (52 mins)
With the general election now two weeks away, Helen Czerski and Tom Heap take a look at how the environment is featuring on the political agenda. They are joined by a panel of guests: energy and climate...
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Episode 9 - Can writers save the planet?
- Broadcast
- 2024 (52 mins)
In a special programme recorded at the Hay Festival, Tom Heap and Helen Czerski discuss nature-writing and ask a panel how the genre shapes our understanding of the natural world.
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Episode 8 - Hush! Don’t Mention The Environment
- Broadcast
- 2024 (52 mins)
In the first edition of a new series of Rare Earth Tom Heap and Helen Czerski reveal a new phenomenon- ‘Greenhushing’. Big corporations that once trumpeted their green credentials are now staying very...