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22 results found for all records.

  • Green Originals

    Episode Three - Petra Kelly

    Broadcast
    2020 (14 mins)

    Caroline Lucas explores the impact of the radical German politician Petra Kelly who founded Die Grünen and inspired a generation of European Green politicians.

  • Green Originals

    Episode Four - Wangari Maathai

    Broadcast
    2020 (13 mins)

    Naturalist and TV presenter Gillian Burke assesses the role of her Kenya’s Green Belt Movement founder Wangari Maathai, and her role in drawing attention to environmental causes in Africa.

  • Green Originals

    Episode Five - Judith Wright

    Broadcast
    2020 (13 mins)

    Corin Throsby presents a programme about the Australian poet and environmental and land rights activist, Judith Wright, whose poems forged a new way of looking at and valuing the Australian landscape and...

  • Green Originals

    Episode Six - James Lovelock

    Broadcast
    2020 (13 mins)

    James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory, first put forward in the mid 1970s, was a ground-breaking hypothesis of how the earth works and one of the most influential ideas on 20th century environmentalism. It proposed...

  • Green Originals

    Episode Seven - David McTaggart

    Broadcast
    2020 (13 mins)

    Emma Shortis reflects on the influence of David McTaggart, founder of Greenpeace International.

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    Episode Nine - Sunderial Bahaguna

    Broadcast
    2020 (14 mins)

    Environmentalist Vandana Shiva reflects on the activism of Sunderlal Bahuguna, who led the original tree-hugging movement in 1970s India.

  • Green Originals

    Episode Ten - Margaret Thatcher

    Broadcast
    2020 (14 mins)

    Alice Bell presents a programme about Margaret Thatcher’s "Green Moment" in the late 1980’s looking at 3 key speeches: to the Royal Society in 1988, The Conservative Party Conference 1989 and the UN...

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    Episode Eleven

    Broadcast
    2020 (13 mins)

    Helon Habila presents a programme about Ken Saro-Wiwa. Ogoni writer, tv producer, human rights and environmental campaigner (against oil pollution) who was executed by the Nigerian government.

  • Green Originals

    Episode Fifteen - Severn Cullis Suzuki

    Broadcast
    2020 (13 mins)

    Chris Packham presents a programme about Severn Cullis Suzuki who gave a speech to the the Rio Earth Summit, aged 12, in 1992. Clips from her speech and interview with her.

  • Green Originals

    Episode Twelve - James Hansen

    Broadcast
    2020 (14 mins)

    Dr Emily Grossman presents a programme about the scientist and activist James Hansen.