Deep Time and the Earth

Published: April 9, 2020, 8 a.m.

Lewis Dartnell, Gaia Vince and David Farrier join Rana Mitter to look at deep ecology.

Gaia Vince is the author of Transendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty And Time\nLewis Dartnell's book is called Origins: How the earth shaped history\nDavid Farrier has written a book called In Search of Future Fossils.

You can find a Free Thinking programme exploring rivers and geopolitics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00051hb\nMatthew Sweet talks to animal expert Jane Goodall https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00066qd\nThe influential writing of Arne Naess is discussed at in the middle of this programme after a conversation about the Thames estuary https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07tzydt

Producers: Luke Mulhall and Alex Mansfield