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Cracking week coming up on the podcast this week and next week loads of special Christmas presents

for you next week. I will tell you more about that later in the week. Coming up on today's

episode though, Tim Smith, Sir Tim Smith, the creator of the Eden project, really fascinating

chat with him today, talking about how he created the Eden project 20 years ago this year,

how he ended up hosting the Queen and the G7 leaders in July this year and his concern that

our politicians aren't necessarily taking the issue of climate change seriously enough.

That's coming up in just a moment. First, as ever, we kick off with our columnist panel

and on the Monday, it's Libby Rachy. It's Libby Purvis and Rachel Zavester.

It goes to the heart of this question of politics versus science and whether all of these

doomsday scenarios that have been painted by sage and Patrick Valance and others in the last 18

months, which didn't come to pass. Is that part of the reason why Boris Johnson is holding out

on not going for tougher measures this time round? What do you think, Rachel?

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