Young people are the future, but is our education system failing them? What role can non-formal learning and experiential education play in providing an education fit for future challenges? In this episode, we hear from Richard Skrein from the Garden Classroom and Kate Bygrave of Stepney City Farm.

Support the Garden Classroom: https://www.thegardenclassroom.org.uk/ and visit Stepney City Farm: https://stepneycityfarm.org/. 

Beneath the City is Soil was created by Robyn Moffat and powered by Transmission Roundhouse.

Will you look back and know you made the most of it while you had it? In this episode, Richard Skrein performs a contemporary folk tale resonant for our times.  

Beneath the City is Soil was created by Robyn Moffat and powered by Transmission Roundhouse. Original music by Ezra Gray was used in this episode.

Privatisation has broken public infrastructure and climate change is devastating our delicate ecosystem, but what can communities do about it? In this episode, we hear from Nathan Miller of East London Waterworks Park and Leslie Barson of Granville Community Kitchen and Farm Hub about community-led projects that are rebuilding climate-resilient and community-owned social infrastructure. 

Get involved with the East London Waterworks Park at https://elwp.org.uk/Home.htm and sign the petition to save the Granville Rec: https://granvillecommunitykitchen.org.uk/community/save-the-rec/. Finally, if you think communities should be able to turn dormant public land into community gardens, support the Right to Grow movement: https://www.incredibleedible.org.uk/what-we-do/right-to-grow/. 

Beneath the City is Soil was created by Robyn Moffat and powered by Transmission Roundhouse.

What can the more than human world - particularly plants and fungi - teach us about community organising and collective action? How is plant identification and foraging an act of resistance in the face of capitalism? In this episode, we hear from community organiser, artist and writer Maymana Arefin.

Learn about plants and fungi in your local area with Maymana at https://maymanaarefin.com/. Send an email to your MP to ask them to support the UK Nature’s Rights Bill: https://nataliebennett.org/2026/06/29/template-email-to-send-to-your-mp-about-uk-natures-rights-bill/.   

Beneath the City is Soil was created by Robyn Moffat and powered by Transmission Roundhouse.

Land is rarely ours - just look at the housing crisis. Why don’t we have a Right to Roam in England, and what has the Norman Invasion of 1066 got to do with it? In this episode, we hear from social scientist and Right to Roam campaigner Lewis Winks.

Get involved and campaign for a Right to Roam in your local community at https://www.righttoroam.org.uk/takeaction. Join your local tenants union at https://acorntheunion.org.uk/ & https://londonrentersunion.org/. 

Beneath the City is Soil was created by Robyn Moffat and powered by Transmission Roundhouse.

The mask is off; our economic system is unequal by design, and the climate is collapsing. So, what can we do about it? Beneath the City is Soil is a six-part narrative documentary podcast exploring alternative futures emerging from a decomposing late-capitalist system in the city of London.

An episode will be released every Tuesday each week. Beneath the City is Soil was created by Robyn Moffat and powered by Transmission Roundhouse.