Human Connection Through Nature: Discussing Seven Worlds, One Planet

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Comedy, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this special bonus episode of Clear+Vivid, BBC America’s Executive Director Courtney Thomasma and Executive Producer of Seven Worlds, One Planet’s Jonny Keeling speak with Alan Alda about the surge in popularity of nature programming and how audiences around the world have connected to the projects that the BBC Studios Natural History Unit has produced in partnership with BBC America. Courtney discusses a recent study demonstrating that watching nature programming delivers many of the same benefits as direct experience with nature, and that these benefits are particularly needed at a time when people are more connected to technology than the natural world. Jonny discusses the production across the seven continents and how they shape the extraordinary animal behavior and biodiversity we see today. The series reveals how these unique worlds gave rise to the extraordinary diversity of life on earth and how that precious diversity is being lost. Clear+Vivid returns after the holiday break with new episodes starting Tuesday, January 7th! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid

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0:00.0	I'm Alan Alder and this is Clear and Vivid, conversations about connecting and communicating.
0:13.0	I love bringing those stories of the natural world to an audience.
0:19.7	You know, when I'm out on location, there's no greater pleasure than sitting and watching
0:24.2	an animal and trying to work out what it's going to do and how you're going to film
0:28.1	it and how can you tell a nice and interesting and engaging story from it.
0:31.9	That's the greatest pleasure.
0:33.9	That's Johnny Keeling, veteran television producer of renowned BBC Natural History series
0:39.3	such as Planet Earth and Blue Planet.
0:42.6	And now he's the executive producer of the most ambitious series about our natural world
0:46.9	that's ever been made.
0:48.8	It's called Seven Worlds One Planet and it will premiere on BBC America next month.
0:55.5	Johnny joined me from the studio of the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, England
1:00.4	and here with me in our Manhattan studio is Courtney Tomasima, executive director of BBC
1:05.5	America.
1:08.2	This is an amazing project.
1:11.0	Seven Worlds One Planet, you really do cover seven worlds, don't you?
1:15.5	Yes, we went everywhere to every continent on the earth.
1:18.6	You started with the title, right?
1:21.2	That concept of how different the seven continents are to the extent that they really each make
1:27.5	up practically a different world.
1:30.3	That's right because there was one originally 200 million years ago, there was one single
1:34.8	continent, Pangaea, which is a supercontinent and that ruptured and broke up and all those
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