The Bewildering Magic of the Narwhal, the Greenland Shark, and the Golden Mole

Intelligence Squared

Arts, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Are narwhals the closest creature to unicorns that we can ever know? How does the Greenland shark fill its 500 years on our planet? Is the iridescent golden mole a mole or an elephant? On this episode of the podcast we're joined by award-winning author and academic Katherine Rundell. In conversation with environmental historian and broadcaster Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, they discuss the individual strangeness and beauty of the animal kingdom and the fragility of our natural world. — We’d love to hear your feedback and what you think we should talk about next, who we should have on and what our future debates should be about. Send us an email or voice note with your thoughts to [email protected]. At Intelligence Squared we’ve got our own online streaming platform, Intelligence Squared+ and we’d love you to give it a go. It’s packed with more than 20 years’ worth of video debates and conversations on the world’s most important topics as well as exclusive podcast content. Tune in to live events, ask your questions or watch on-demand, totally ad-free with hours of discussion to dive into. Visit intelligencesquaredplus.com to start watching today Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Shopify.
0:03.0	That's what I hear when I make another sale on Shopify.
0:07.0	The all-in-one commerce platform that allows you to start, run and grow your business.
0:12.0	Shopify is revolutionising millions of businesses worldwide.
0:17.0	So sign up for a £1 per month trial period at Shopify.co.uk
0:23.0	Flash podcast 23 all lowercase and take your business to the next level today.
0:53.0	Hi everyone, Connor here.
1:02.0	If you don't know already, we have launched Intelligent Squared Premium for bonus content, early access lessons and exclusive extras.
1:09.0	Just head to IQ2premium.supercast.com or see the link in the episode description.
1:15.0	And if you're an Apple podcast person, hit subscribe for the bonus extras from your podcast app too.
1:21.0	Thanks again for all your support.
1:23.0	Welcome to Intelligent Squared. I'm Connor Voil.
1:27.0	Today on the podcast, we're joined by award-winning author and academic Catherine Rundle.
1:33.0	Drawing on her magical new book The Golden Mole and other living treasure, Catherine is joined by environmental historian and broadcaster, Eleanor Rosman Barclough, to discuss the individual strangeness and beauty of the animal kingdom and the fragility of our natural world.
1:50.0	Let's join the conversation now.
1:53.0	Hello everyone. Hi, it's such a pleasure to be here. Welcome to this Intelligent Squared event.
2:00.0	I am Eleanor Rosman Barclough and my guest today is Catherine Rundle.
2:05.0	She is a deeply impressive person and has many, many wonderful strings to her bow, including the fact that she's a fellow of All Souls College at University of Oxford and a best-selling author.
2:18.0	Her books for children have been translated into more than 30 languages and have won multiple awards.
2:24.0	She's also the author of adult books, including the best sellers, why you should read children's books, even though you are so old and wise, and super infinite, the transformations of John Dunn, which is based on her PhD thesis.
2:40.0	This is the reason we started late. I have two toddlers and I apologise.
2:49.0	As if all this wasn't enough, we also, she also enjoys night climbing and tightrope walking.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Intelligence Squared, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Intelligence Squared and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.