OFF AIR... EXTRA (with Planet Hope)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a Friday special! This week's bonus episode features an interview with Tom Whipple, science writer for The Times and the host of Planet Hope - a podcast series brought to you in paid partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative. He told us about his experience interviewing BAFTA and Emmy-winning wildlife filmmaker, Bertie Gregory for World Environment Day. You can listen to that episode here: https://pod.fo/e/42831f.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this bonus Friday edition of Offair with Jane and Fee. |
| 0:12.4 | We've got a little bit of something environmental and natural to tickle your ears with today. |
| 0:18.8 | Yes, it's a podcast we think you should know about. |
| 0:21.8 | It's a good one, isn't it? |
| 0:22.8 | It is because it is looking towards the trajectory of optimism. |
| 0:27.6 | It's called Planet Hope, isn't it, Jane? |
| 0:29.5 | Optimism. |
| 0:30.5 | We don't do a lot of that, do we? |
| 0:32.0 | But we are interested in our planet and in the environment. |
| 0:36.9 | And I think you'll enjoy hearing about planet hope. |
| 0:39.5 | Fans of David Attenborough documentaries may remember this iconic moment from the BBC |
| 0:44.4 | Seven Worlds One Planet. |
| 0:47.1 | Bertie tries enticing the belugas closer with some tunes of his own. |
| 1:17.5 | Despite with some tunes of his own. Despite some questionable singing, it seems to be working. Oh, oh, he shares the secret. |
| 1:22.0 | The moment I started singing Adele, they just went crazy. |
| 1:27.8 | It's the chorus. That's what gets them. |
| 1:29.1 | Every time. |
| 1:35.3 | That was wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory, singing to a pod of beluga whales in Canada. It was an early career highlight for Bertie, who's fast become one of the rising stars of wildlife filmmaking, |
| 1:42.3 | after winning major awards as a teenager and going to work with |
| 1:45.6 | National Geographic the day after graduation. Gregory is now fronting his own wildlife documentaries. |
| 1:51.7 | And for his work on one of those shows, Secrets of the Penguins, Gregory was named one of |
| 1:55.8 | Rolex's National Geographic Explorers of the Year for 2025. And for Earth Day, he joined the Times science writer Tom Whipple on the podcast Planet Hope to talk about some of his adventures. |
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