George Monbiot
In the first of a series of conversations with the audience, the captivating author of Bring on the Apocalypse: Six Arguments for Global Justice discusses a global or environmental topic arising from the day’s news.
Tim Flannery, Rosie Boycott
The writer and Ecologist examines our changing climate and what it means for life on Earth. 'It would be hard to imagine a better or more important book' Bill Bryson.
Gabrielle Walker
Through the eyes and lives of its discoverers, the science writer celebrates the natural history of the earth’s atmosphere and reveals how we came to understand air, the true elixir of life.
Stephen Harding, Brian Goodwin
The Schumacher College lecturers explore how Gaia has sequestered excess CO2 over millenia, and why bacteria are essential for the formation of both clouds and continents. If we are going to have a habitable home in the future we need solutions as complex and elegant as the conditions that give us life.
Vivien Norris, Matt Whyman, Claire Armistead
Vivien Norris, Matt Whyman and Claire Armitstead The child psychologist running the pioneering Gwent Health Trust scheme to use self-help books in mental health cases is joined by children’s novelist and agony uncle Matt Whyman and Guardian Literary Editor Claire Armitstead to discuss how books can help parents and children with the struggles they face.
David Beerling
Why did plants evolve leaves? When and how did forests once grow on Antarctica? Beerling reveals the crucial role that plants have played in driving and recording climatic change.
Nick Rosen
From survivalist and hippy homes to new environmental adventurers, Rosen takes a journey outside the system of telephone, water and power.
Darian Leader, David Corfield
Case studies and cutting-edge research inform this intriguing inquiry into the unconscious processes that can make us fall ill.
Robert Winston
Compared to the rabbit, for whom a single act of coitus has a 90% chance of creating a litter of up to 12 kittens, humans are very infertile animals. Here in the UK the average chance of conception is about 18% per month. The fertility expert examines the human condition.
James Fergusson
How a British scientist taught the nation how to eat well, then taught the food industry how to trick consumers, and paid for the paradox with his life.
Jeremy Leggett, Mark Lynas, David Miliband
The author of Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and The Global Energy Crisis is joined by Lynas (Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet) and the Secretary of State for the Environment.
Chaired by Guto Harri.
Brenda Maddox
The amazing tale of the brilliant and sexually voracious Welsh psychoanalyst who rescued Sigmund from Vienna in 1938.
Richard Dawkins, Steve Jones, Martin Rees
Chaired by The Guardian’s Science Editor James Randerson.
Steve Jones
Scientists are professional pessimists, always dubious about what they find. Believers, in contrast, are certain: full of joy that their own Big Book contains the truth. The geneticist talks about science and faith as conflicting explanations of what we are; and how biology, in the end, is blind.
Charles Leadbeater
The rise of YouTube, Linux, MySpace and Wikipedia defines a new society in which participation will be the key organising idea. Join us for a last chance to shape Leadbeater’s groundbreaking investigation before publication. Chaired by Ariane Koek, Director of the Arvon Foundation.
Richard Dawkins, Rosie Boycott
The geneticist eviscerates religion, intelligent design, and the idea of a supreme being.
Martin Rees, Neil Turok, Bernard Carr
The pre-eminent astronomers and cosmologists discuss how recent developments in cosmology and particle physics have led to the remarkable realization that our universe – rather than being unique – could be just one of many universes. This multiverse proposal may explain the fine-tunings which appear necessary for the emergence of life, as well as the origin of our universe. Chaired by science broadcaster Quentin Cooper.
Katherine Hamnett, Neil Crumpton, Gerhard Knies, Nicola Heywood Thomas
Designer Katharine Hamnett joins Neil Crumpton (Friends of the Earth) and Gerhard Knies (TREC) to discuss the potential power revolution of CSP. Chaired by Nicola Heywood Thomas.
A Greenprint debate
Jo Confino, Mathew Anderson
Executive Editor of The Guardian, Jo Confino, and BSkyB Group Director of Brand and Communications Matthew Anderson discuss how their respective organizations are dealing with carbon reduction and sustainability.
A Greenprint debate
James Lovelock talks to Rosie Boycott
The visionary Earth scientist, inventor of Gaia, adopts an increasingly radical manifesto for how we can still save the planet, including a passionate and controversial advocacy of nuclear power.
Robert Winston
The eminent medic and broadcaster discusses the relationship between religion and science from primitive times to our multi-faith world.
Steve Jones
From chaos in the heavens to the fight against creationism, from optical illusions in tartan to the mathematics of elections to what rules the sex lives of cats, the biologist takes a turn around the world of science.
Jeremy Leggett
The global marketplace is built on the notion of a stable supply of cheap oil and gas. But that bedrock is about to crumble. As geologists, civil servants and the oil industry knows, the end of oil is a lot closer than we think. Leggett is Chief Executive of Solarcentury.
Clare Short, Michael Codner
Clare Short MP and Michael Codner, director of Military Service, chaired by Stephen Tindale Is there a rationale for continuing Britain’s nuclear force in the twenty-first century?