This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by Sara Hudston to talk about how to write about our environment, who gets to write about it, why it is so crucial - and "horsey" books; and James McConnachie, himself a keen player, discusses the future of strategy games, given that the computers are increasingly beating the humans
Women on Nature, edited by Katherine Norbury
Wild Isles, edited by Patrick Barkham
Gifts of Gravity and Light, edited by Anita Roy and Pippa Marland
Out of Time: Poetry from the climate emergency, edited by Kate Simpson
Seven Games: A Human History by Oliver Roeder
Produced by Sophia Franklin
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