Deep Time and the Earth

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Lewis Dartnell, Gaia Vince and David Farrier join Rana Mitter to look at deep ecology.

Gaia Vince is the author of Transendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty And Time Lewis Dartnell's book is called Origins: How the earth shaped history David Farrier has written a book called In Search of Future Fossils.

You can find a Free Thinking programme exploring rivers and geopolitics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00051hb Matthew Sweet talks to animal expert Jane Goodall https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00066qd The influential writing of Arne Naess is discussed at in the middle of this programme after a conversation about the Thames estuary https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07tzydt

Producers: Luke Mulhall and Alex Mansfield

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0:39.3	Hello, I'm Ron Amitter, and thanks for downloading the Arts and Ideas podcast.
0:43.9	And today I'm going deep into the history of the earth, the human species, and even the history of the future, with David Farrier, Guy Fynce and Lewis Dartnell.
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