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Is the UK prepared for more floods?
The UK is experiencing more rain and more floods than previously, and because of climate change this is set to get worse. More than 6 million homes are at risk of flooding in the UK.
What is the state of the country’s flood defences? Can people get insurance? What can we do to prepare for a wetter future?
David Aaronovitch is joined by the following experts:
Louise Slater, Professor of Hydroclimatology at the University of Oxford
Edmund Penning-Rowsell, Research Associate at Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Hannah Cloke, Professor of Hydrology at the University of Reading
Steven Forrest, Lecturer in Flood Resilience and Sustainable Transformations, Hull University
Production team: Nick Holland, Kirsteen Knight and Charlotte McDonald
Production Co-ordinator: Sophie Hill and Katie Morrison
Sound: Neil Churchill
Editor: Richard Vadon
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The UK is experiencing more rain and more floods than previously, and because of climate change this is set to get worse. More than 6 million homes are at risk of flooding in the UK.
What is the state of the country’s flood defences? Can people get insurance? What can we do to prepare for a wetter future?
David Aaronovitch is joined by the following experts:
Louise Slater, Professor of Hydroclimatology at the University of Oxford
Edmund Penning-Rowsell, Research Associate at Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Hannah Cloke, Professor of Hydrology at the University of Reading
Steven Forrest, Lecturer in Flood Resilience and Sustainable Transformations, Hull University
Production team: Nick Holland, Kirsteen Knight and Charlotte McDonald
Production Co-ordinator: Sophie Hill and Katie Morrison
Sound: Neil Churchill
Editor: Richard Vadon
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