What Planet Are We On? ...with Liz Bonnin
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What Planet Are We On? ...with Liz Bonnin
Offering solutions and practical tips on how we can tackle climate change, as well as hearing from experts, campaigners and well-known names, like David Attenborough and Idris Elba. ‘What Planet Are We On?’ shines a light on some of the most challenging environmental issues of our time and takes a c...
Recent Episodes
20 episodes
COP26: Your climate questions answered!
In this special episode ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Liz Bonnin puts your questions to the BBC’s environment correspondent Matt McGra...
What do YOU want to ask the experts?
A quick hello from the team of ‘What Planet Are We On?’ to tell you about a special episode we’re making this autumn to answer YOUR climate questions....
Bonus content: Brian Eno and James Thornton - ‘Changing The System’
This is a bonus episode recorded at the Manchester Science Festival. Liz Bonnin talks to the acclaimed musician, Brian Eno, and environmental lawyer,...
Bonus content: Our 10 favourite climate solutions
In this bonus clip, Liz Bonnin, Matt McGrath and Victoria Gill talk about their favourite climate solutions from this series.
We’ve heard over...
Ep 10. Christiana Figueres – Stubborn optimism and leadership
This episode is about leadership. The team are joined by the UN’s former top climate diplomat, Christiana Figueres, and her political strategist, Tom...
Stubborn optimism and leadership, Part 2
In part 2, we hear from some of the world’s leading young activists; Jamie Margolin, an American climate justice campaigner and the co-executive direc...
Ep 9. Foals’ Edwin Congreave – ‘A Message People Don’t Want To Hear’
This episode is about a musician in the award-winning British band, Foals, who wants to see big changes in both the live music industry and wider soci...
Ep 8. Reimagining ‘Business As Usual’
This episode is about business, invention and changing the way we do things. Can we continue with ‘business as usual’ if we are going to build a susta...
Ep 7. 'A New Economy Waiting to Be Born’
This episode is about our economy. As governments pour billions into the system following the pandemic, can our future be both prosperous AND green? L...
Ep 6. Lily Cole and Bella Lack - Hope And The Imperfect Environmentalist
This episode is about optimism and hope and where we can find it in the often depressing climate change story.
The supermodel, businesswoman and...
Planting Trees, Part 2
In part 2 of our trees episode, conservation scientist from the Zoological Society of London, Monica Bohm, talks about how climate change, deforestati...
Ep 5. YouTuber Mark Rober – Planting Trees 'With Tooth Fairy Money'
This episode is about trees; losing them, planting them, protecting them and the amazing ecosystems they support. We hear from former NASA and Apple e...
Mindful Consumption, Part 2
In part 2, Alannah Weston, the chair of Selfridges, talks to Liz Bonnin, Victoria Gill and Matt McGrath about how an iconic department store which sel...
Ep 4. The Repair Shop's Jay Blades - Mindful Consumption
This episode looks at the stuff we buy and the impact it has on the planet. The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades talks to Liz Bonnin and Matt McGrath about co...
Ep 3. 'Underestimating the Facts'
This episode is about climate denial, apathy and how we choose to live on the planet. Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, the director of the Centre for Cli...
A New Respect For Food, Part 2
In Part 2, Liz Bonnin, Matt McGrath and Victoria Gill discuss the foods we produce, buy and eat and speak to Indra Thillainathan, an agriculture and l...
Ep 2. Sabrina and Idris Elba – A New Respect For Food
This episode is about food and farming. Hollywood actor Idris Elba and his wife Sabrina Dhowre Elba are UN Goodwill Ambassadors for the International...
‘We Have To Believe It’s Possible’, Part 2
In Part 2, Liz Bonnin, Matt McGrath and Victoria Gill hear 10 things we can do to help tackle climate change with Crystal Chissell, Vice President of...
Ep 1. David Attenborough - ‘We Have To Believe It’s Possible’
The celebrated broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough, shares his thoughts about the impact of the pandemic on tackling climate change. He says he is fru...
Coming soon...
A quick hello and welcome from the team of ‘What Planet Are We On?’. Coming very soon to BBC Sounds, a new podcast about climate change and how we cho...