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🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Jon Long and Dr Tara Shine join forces for more of the hybrid comedy-magazine show that emits jokes and facts that (carbon) capture all things climate to demystify the issues and offer advice on how to make positive choices in our everyday lives.
This week - The Carbon Cost of Tech, The Internet and AI with special guests Chris McCausland and Mike Berners-Lee.
In previous episodes, we’ve covered Food, Travel and Christmas, so what’s next? Well, it turns out that our previous episodes did not solve the climate crisis on their own. So, for this series, we will be looking at the topics of Tech and AI, Waste Management and Recycling, and The Fashion Footprint.
Expect new in-studio guests and on-location experts, more games, more practical advice, more cold hard stats, and the return of Greenwash of the Week to shout out the heroes and villains of the climate crisis.
Presenters: Jon Long and Dr Tara Shine Guests: Chris McCausland and Mike Berners-Lee Producer: Laura Grimshaw Executive Producer: Jon Holmes Live Sound: Jerry Peal Post-production Sound: Tony Churnside
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, Living Legends, I'm Laura Whitmore. |
| 0:09.5 | And I'm Ian Sterling. It's officially cozy season, people. |
| 0:13.1 | The perfect time for hot chocolate, blankets, and a little bit of true crime. |
| 0:18.4 | Get your fix on murder theyote, our weekly podcasts diving into |
| 0:21.9 | the wildest true crime stories. |
| 0:23.7 | From a murderous granny |
| 0:24.8 | to the con man who sold the Eiffel Tower |
| 0:26.9 | twice. |
| 0:28.2 | Oh, and don't forget Murder You wrote. |
| 0:30.1 | Crazy cases from where you live. |
| 0:32.3 | That one's only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.9 | Murder they wrote. |
| 0:35.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:40.5 | Fellow Carbon Life Forms, please welcome John Long. |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome, everyone, to Carbon Life Forms. |
| 0:53.0 | Today, we'll be discussing technology. |
| 0:55.0 | A new bit of tech is exciting and a good way to jush up the old climate crisis, |
| 0:59.0 | which is really a fun topic. |
| 1:01.0 | Like when the Tesla first came out, that was good news for environmentalists. |
| 1:05.0 | It was the first time an electric vehicle had been a bit sexy. |
| 1:08.0 | Because a milk float, it's not sexy, is it? |
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