Hello! We took a trip to Latitude festival. While there Professor Simon Lewis joined us on stage to talk about the book he's co-authored called The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is the new planetary age we're in which sees Earth being fundamentally altered by human activity. He tells us what we need to do now.
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Comedian Jen Brister joins us to pitch ending period poverty and introducing emoting classes for boys and we hear ideas from our audience.
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Reasons Revisited: On the buses
6th anniversary special: Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
Reasons Revisited: Rent Control
Apocalypse (not) now: is AI an existential threat?
Reasons Revisited: Beyond GDP
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Loss, love and a calling to nature: Ben Goldsmith
The hidden story of Chinese food: Fuchsia Dunlop
How to fix the broken food system: Henry Dimbleby
What about men?: Caitlin Moran
How to end our very British culture war: Sunder Katwala
Throwing shade: why you’ll never take trees for granted again
Fields of Dreams: how music festivals moved from the margins to the mainstream
Never stopped us dreaming: the rise of women’s football
Driven to distraction: can we resist the attention economy?
Freewheeling: how to embrace the bicycle boom
Will there be a Hollywood ending? why the writers are on strike
The People's Plan for Nature: how re-imagining our democracy could save nature
Live at the RSC Part 2: the return of the Doctor
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