Ecology, The Environment, Climate Change

Last Edited: 25-Sep-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.


Date Title Cast Parameters
07-Mar-2004 to
21-Mar-2004
repeat
17-Jan-2005 to
21-Jan-2005
Foreign Invaders
  1. Japanese Knotweed
  2. New Zealand Pygmyweed Crassula Helmsii
  3. Rhododendron ponticum
  4. Spartina anglica x alternafolia
  5. Sargassum muticum
Tony Russell
Produced by Trevor Taylor
14:15, 13363, S
13:38, 12795, S
13:40, 12826, S
13:52, 13006, S
14:05, 13207, S

22-Nov-2004
29-Nov-2004
Future Fish
Fish Farming
Sue Broom
Produced by Jonathan Fyles, Deborah Cohen
27:57, 26218, S
28:14, 26481, S
13-Dec-2004
Don’t Mourn, Organize – The Judi Bari Story
Preserving Redwood Forests
Alan Dein
Produced by Mark Berman
28:06, 26351, S
14-Dec-2004
Perfectly Poisoned
Bengal and Bangladesh Arsenic Poisoning
Jane Franchi
Produced by Lynn Mennie
37:15, 34932, S
08-Aug-2005
Native Science
Native Alaskans and climate change
Adam Fowler
Produced by Kate Bissell
28:06, 26358, S
16-Aug-2005
Arctic Meltdown
Global warming in Greenland
Richard Hollingham
produced by Jonathan Childs
28:01, 26277,  S
22-Aug-2005
Fair Isle on the Edge
 Jim Crumley
Producer: Dave Batchelor
27:57, 26208, S
06-Dec-2005
File on Four
Doubt cast over UK climate target
Julian O’Hara
Produced by Gregor Stewart
37:11, 34860, S
20-Apr-2006
The Battle for Influence –
Overselling Climate Change
Simon Cox
Produced by Richard Vardon
27:52, 26126, S
08-May-2006
Counting Creatures
Biodiversity
Sue Broom
Produced by Fiona Roberts
27:54, 26164, S
10-May-2006 to
24-May-2006
In the Think Tanks
Environmental ideas
Dennis Sewell
Produced by Sheila Cooke
13:57, 13083, S
14:06, 13222, S
13:48, 12943, S
29-May-2006
I Want to Give up Driving
Dave Cohen
Produced by Neil Koenig
28:09, 26403, S
10-Jul-2006
Libya’s Desert Water
The Great Man-Made River project
Richard Hollingham
Produced by John Watkins
27:51, 26111, S
15-Aug-2006
No Flies on Me
Testing whether a Glasgow landfill fosters flies
Mark Stephens
Produced by Sue Mitchell
28:05, 26329, S
20-Nov-2006 to
15-Jan-2007
Planet Earth under Threat
  1. Evidence from the Earth
  2. Life on the Move
  3. Nature’s Calendar
  4. Ice
  5. The Conundrum of Biodiversity
  6. The Earth and the Irascible Ape
  7. Conservation - Embracing Change
  8. The Future
Gabrielle Walker
Produced by Beatrice Fenton, Jodie Burton
27:45, 26029, S
27:58, 26232, S
27:38, 25917, S
27:45, 26029, S
27:39, 25933, S
27:58, 25909, S
27:52, 26132, S
27:47, 26049, S
20-Dec-2006
Planet Earth Debate
Edward Stourton
Produced by Philippa Goodrich
42:53, 40205, S
19-Mar-2007 to
23-Mar-2007
Reed Bed, The
Peter France
Producer Sarah Blunt
5 files
1:10:03, 64.3 MB, S
26-Mar-2007
The Torrey Canyon: The Toxic Tide
Sarah Pitt
Produced by David Parkinson
28:06, 26348, S
02-Apr-2007
Squeezing Victoria's Curves
Lowered water levels in Lake Victoria
Ayisha Yahya
Produced by Ruth Evans
28:23, 26619, S
04-Apr-2007
GM Rides Again
2nd generation genetically modified crops
Susan Watts
Produced by Hugh Levinson
28:11, 26430, S
10-Feb-2007
25-Jun-2007
Endangered Sounds
Simon Fanshawe
Produced by Nick Baker
28:04, 26394, S
02-Jul-2007
Pleistocene Park
Adam Fowler
Producer: Jo Meek
28:15, 26493, S
24-Oct-2007
31-Oct-2007
Cleansing the Thames
Presenter/Producer: Tracey Logan
27:46, 26045, S
27:48, 26066, S
04-Dec-2007
06-Feb-2008
The Ice Cream Man Cometh –
Jerry Greenfield and Global Warming
Tom Feilden
Produced by Claire Burgoyne
27:50, 26108, S
01-Jan-2008
13-Feb-2008
The Great Game in a Cold Climate
Adam Fowler
28:08, 26389, S
03-Apr-2008
Analysis-- The wrong way to a warmer world
Presenter: Kenan Malik
Producer: Mark Alden
Editor: Hugh Levinson
27:44, 26009, S
05-Jun-2008
The Great Carbon Bazaar -- Carbon Trading
Mark Gregory
Produced by David Edmonds
27:56, 26203, S
31-Jul-2008
Analysis - Climate Change: The Quick Fix?
Frances Cairncross
Produced by Chris Bowlby
28:07, 26462, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
24-Nov-2008
25-Nov-2008
Visions of Fire
Max Allen, Stephen Pyne, Paul Kennedy
Produced by Sarah Walch
54:01, 50658, S
53:30, 50172, S
31-Dec-2008
Irreplaceable
which organism is most important to us
Andrea Catherwood
produced by Kirsty Henderson
42:45, 40093, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
14-Jan-2009
21-Jan-2009
28-Jan-2009
Climate Wars
Gwynne Dyer, Paul Kennedy
Produced by

53:57, 50592, S
53:53, 50529, S
53:55, 50549, S
24-Jun-2009
01-Jul-2009

The Greening of the Deserts
Ayisha Yahya
produced by Ruth Evans

27:38, 25920, S
27:40, 25949, S

20-Aug-2009
A Problem with Noise
Chris Watson
Producer Sarah Blunt
27:56, 26192, S
27-Aug-2009
The Great Climate Change Hijack
Richard Black
produced by Anna Buckley
27:52, 26137, S
29-Dec-2009
From Tsunami to Drought
Andrea Catherwood
produced by  Lizz Pearson
36:31, 34243, S
10-Mar-2010
Geoengineering the Climate
Mark Whitaker
produced by Mike Harley
28:01, 26269, S
30-Aug-2010
06-Sep-2010
Uncertain Climate
Roger Harrabin
Producer: Daniel Tetlow
27:59, 26245, S
27:47, 26061, S
01-Oct-2010
08-Oct-2010

Big Game, Little Game
Mark Stephen, Andy Malcolm Dylan Smith
Producer: Sue Mitchell

27:50, 26095, S
27:55, 26179, S

28-Nov-2010
What Happened at Copenhagen?
Roger Harrabin
Producer: Martin Rosenbaum
28:02, 26286, S
29-Nov-2010 to
03-Dec-2010
The Empire of Climate
  1. Cultures of Climate
  2. The Body of Climatic Opinion
  3. Climate, Race and Immmigration
  4. Climate, Mind and Brain
  5. Climate's Moral Economy
David Livingstone
produced by Rachel Hooper
13:51, 12989, S
13:32, 12699, S
13:40, 12828, S
13:45, 12903, S
13:41, 12842, S
10-Feb-2011
In Denial - Climate on the Couch
Jolyon Jenkins
27:49, 26082, S

03-Jul-2012 Amazonia - Keeping It Alive
Mary Colwell 27:43, 25944, S
06-Aug-2012 Greening the Military
Angus Crawford
Producer: Mark Smalley
27:35, 25808, S
31-Oct-2012 Climategate Revisited
Chris Vallance
Producers: Martin Rosenbaum &
Catherine Donegan
27:49, 26034, S
26-Dec-2012 And No Birds Sing:
Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
Franny Armstrong
produced by Megan Jones
27:55, 26129, S
18-Feb-2013 The Drowning City  Isabel Hilton
Producer: Anthony Denselow 
27:39, 25879, S 
29-May-2013 Vertical Farming Ella McSweeney
Producer: Clare Walker  
27:51, 26092, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
09-Dec-2009

The Munk Debates -
Be It Resolved That Climate Change Is
Mankind's Defining Crisis and Demands
A Commensurate Response

Elizabeth May, George Monbiot, Bjorn Lomborg,
Lord Nigel Lawson, Rudyard Griffith,
Paul Kennedy
Produced by Richard Handler

53:59, 50618, S
CBC R1 IDEAS
24-Jun-2010
25-Jun-2010

Speaking Truth to Power
Maude Barlow, Henry Lickers, Gord Miller, David
Schindler, John Smol, Norm Yan
Paul Kennedy

53:54, 50545, S
53:57, 50589, S

CBC R1 IDEAS
12-Mar-2012
19-Mar-2012
Demon Coal
Max Allen
produced by Sarah Walch

53:42, 50241, S
53:48, 50339, S