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Kevin McCloud: Consumption doesn’t make you happy

The Grand Designs presenter on authenticity, the value of making and the lessons he learned on a Tuscan farm about what it means to

August 27, 2025

CREATIVITY·MORALITY·PLANET

James Murray: The simplest and most powerful thing anyone can do is to take the story and pass it on

The actor, artist and campaigner on polluted rivers, the race to save wild salmon and why most activism should always begin with a story.

June 5, 2025

CREATIVITY·PLANET

Sophia Ray: A 90-second film can’t radically change someone’s mind, but it can plant a seed

The filmmaker on AI’s creep into cinema and the quiet rebellion back to lo-fi.

June 2, 2025

CREATIVITY

Lucy Siegle:: We need to show people what’s possible, what’s already happening, and what they can do to help

The journalist and broadcaster on the limits of doom narratives, the power of everyday actions, and why climate storytelling needs a complete rethink.

December 24, 2024

EDUCATION·PLANET

Nina Sosanya: Jurassic Park shows what happens when you mess with nature – it bites your head off!

he actor on why we're terrible at practising what we preach, why we threw away the cleaner world we glimpsed during COVID, and why

April 3, 2024

CREATIVITY·PLANET

Gillian Burke:: I’d rather go down on a burning planet where we’re all together than have a planet that works for some but not for all

The biologist, television presenter and filmmaker on why 25 years of nature TV failed to save the planet — and what we need to

March 20, 2024

EDUCATION·PLANET

Maddie Moate: We are seeing fewer faces of actual human beings on children’s television

The BAFTA-winning CBeebies presenter on climate truths for kids, the problem with animation, and why poo paper gets young minds buzzing.

February 27, 2024

EDUCATION·PLANET

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Kevin McCloud: Consumption doesn’t make you happy

James Murray: The simplest and most powerful thing anyone can do is to take the story and pass it on

Sophia Ray: A 90-second film can’t radically change someone’s mind, but it can plant a seed

Lucy Siegle:: We need to show people what’s possible, what’s already happening, and what they can do to help

Nina Sosanya: Jurassic Park shows what happens when you mess with nature – it bites your head off!

Maddie Moate: We are seeing fewer faces of actual human beings on children’s television

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