Podcasts by Unearthed - Journeys into the Future of Food
The way we produce and consume food is having a devastating impact on our natural world.
How can we avoid disaster, and feed the world well?
Unearthed: Journeys into the future of food, from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, explores our contemporary relationship with food: what are we eating? What is it doing to our health and the health of the planet? And how are livelihoods and agriculture changing before our eyes?
Take a journey around the world: from farming practises and biodiversity loss, to finding crops that can thrive in the face of climate change, all the way to our own shopping baskets and kitchens.
James Wong, Advolly Richmond and Poppy Okocha bring you insights, ideas and inspirational actions from artists, thinkers, chefs and plant scientists who are all helping to make sure food and nature are secure and healthy for future generations.
Episodes 1 and 2 of this series will be released on Thursday 6th October 2022. You can catch up on the previous series of Unearthed - Mysteries From an Unseen World - right now on this podcast channel.
You can find out more about how Kew Science is helping to protect global food security by visiting kew.org.
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Food, Health and Wellbeing in Daily Life from 2022-12-15T02:00
To round off this series, we’re heading into our own kitchens and examining how our food choices can make for better health and a better world.
How Should We Be Growing Food? from 2022-12-01T02:00
If you have a window box, veg patch or allotment, how does the way you are growing food change your relationship with it?
In this episode of Unearthed...
ListenFoods of the Future from 2022-11-17T02:00
With so many of our favourite foods facing extinction, including bananas, chocolate and coffee, what will be on our kitchen tables in the future?
In this episode, James Wong looks at what...
ListenAgriculture and Livelihoods from 2022-11-03T02:00
This time, Poppy Okocha’s looking at our relationship with growing and producing foods around the world. She meets up with Jeremy Torz, one of the founders of Listen
“The Red List”: Biodiversity loss and food from 2022-10-20T01:00
Advolly Richmond is exploring how food production methods and climate change today are exacerbating issues of biodiversity loss. As conditions change and human activity intervenes with environme...
ListenSupermarkets, supply and waste from 2022-10-06T01:01
James Wong takes a look at what you can do at home, versus what big business and supermarket giants are doing to make sure our food choices are transparent and production is fair and sustainable...
ListenWe have a problem from 2022-10-06T01:00
The food we eat connects us to the wider world; to global history, cultures and traditions. But the practises we’ve ended up with today mean that our systems are failing and many of our favo...
ListenUnearthed: Journeys Into The Future Of Food, From The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Coming on Thursday 6th October 2022 from 2022-09-26T08:19:35
The way we produce and consume food is having a devastating impact on our natural world.
How can we avoid disaster, and feed the world well?
Unearthed: Journeys into the future of ...
ListenDirt on our hands: Overcoming botany’s hidden legacy of inequality from 2021-03-10T02:00
Dirt on our hands: Overcoming botany’s hidden legacy of inequality
In this special episode of Unearthed, professional plant geek, author, and broadca...
ListenThe Disappearing Forests: Is ecocide a crime? from 2020-10-14T01:00
Time is running out for the world’s forests, ecosystems and the life they support. The consequences for human life and climate could be catastrophic – unless we take action now.
... ListenHarm or Harmony: How safe are we from the foods we eat? from 2020-09-30T01:00
4 years ago, 15 year-old Natasha Ednan-Laperouse lost her life to a severe sesame allergy.
In this episode, James Wong speaks to Natasha’s parents Tania and Nadim, who worked with t...
ListenZombies, tripping and the everyday normality of fantastic fungi from 2020-09-16T01:00
In this episode James Wong learns how there’s nothing weirder and more wonderful than the everyday.
Hear about the depression trials that have seen sufferers tripping on magic mushr...
ListenCurious cures and mysterious medicines from 2020-09-02T01:00
Deep in some of the world’s most hard-to-reach places lies a wealth of plant knowledge that could offer the next life-saving cure.
In this episode, James Wong explores how Kew scien...
ListenThe curry killer: How Kew helped bring a murderer to justice from 2020-08-19T01:00
Plants have the power to cure – and also kill. In this episode we hear how a spurned woman murdered her lover with just a mysterious plant substance.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ...
ListenUncovering a multi-million pound smuggling trade from 2020-08-05T01:00
One wintery morning in 2014, somebody stole a tiny and extremely rare waterlily from the collection at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was never seen again, and they were never caught.
Trailer from 2020-07-16T10:08
James Wong introduces "Unearthed", launching August 5th 2020.
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