In this episode Jason talks to Gernot Wagner about the damage we're doing to our limate and whether or not it's on our power to reverse it.

Producer: Natt Tapley

Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson

Audio: Pete Dennis

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Jason talks to Jo Handelsman, the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at University of Wisconsin, about the role soil has played in the historical invasions of Ukraine, how fast we're running out of soil and what will happen when we do.

Presenter: Jason Kingsley

Producer: Natt Tapley

Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson

Audio: Pete Dennis

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Professor Nicholas Guyatt joins Jason to talk about apocalyptic cults, beliefs in the end of the world, and what that might look like.

Producer: Natt Tapley

Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson

Audio: Pete Dennis

Image: St Jean de Montmartre 4th Horseman of Apocalypse by Peter Haas licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0

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Jason talks to David Perry & Matt Gabriele about their new book, The Bright Ages, which tries to reassess the period after the fall of the Roman empire (if that even happened).

Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis

Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson

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Jason talks to Professor Suzannah Lipscomb about how we find out about mediaeval women in the past, how marriages worked, and whether or not Henry VIII was the ultimate romantic?

Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis

Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson

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Jason talks to Jessica Nordell , who showed how small amounts of bias can have huge impact on large organisations.

Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis

Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson

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In this episode, Jason talks to Professor Jan Lucassen about the different roles work has played in human history. Have we always worked? Will we always work? How do we define work?

Producer: Nathaniel Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis

Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson

Photo by Yury Kim from Pexels

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Recorded last month, Jason talks to Cold War historian Alex von Tunzelmann about tensions between Russia and the West, and whether or not we're all likely to die in a Third World War.

Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis

Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson

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Hildegard of Bingen was a mediaeval abbess who was famous in her own time for her thoughts about the natural world. Michael Marder talks to Jason about what her philosophy can teach us today about the way in which we interact with plants and what it could mean for our future.

Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis

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Are we entering a new Age of Fire? Emeritus Professor Stephen Pyne believes that we have altered the geological age through our control of fire. Jason talks to him about our past manipulation of fire, and what the world is likely to look like in this new Fire Age.

Producer: Natt Tapley

Audio: Pete Dennis

Photo: Eric Chistov

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