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Oceans and the Sea

Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah, climate scientist Professor Emily Shuckburgh and literature scholar and New Generation Thinker Joan Passey at Hay Festival.

Smugglers, refugees, trade and melting ice and polar exploration are part of the conversation as Rana Mitter is joined in the ±«Óãtv tent at the Hay Festival by Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose books have drawn on his birthplace Zanzibar and the refugees arriving at the Kent coast; climate scientist Professor Emily Shuckburgh, who worked at the British Antarctic Survey; and Joan Passey, author of Cornish Gothic, a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by ±«Óãtv Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to turn research into radio.

Producer: Ruth Watts
You can find a series of Lunchtime concerts recorded with audiences at Hay being broadcast on ±«Óãtv Radio 3 and an episode of The Verb with Ian McMillan. The Free Thinking website has a collection of episodes exploring Green Thinking and the environment - and a programmes looking at the history of the sea with artist Hew Locke and three historians.

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44 minutes

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Tue 31 May 2022 22:00

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  • Tue 31 May 2022 22:00

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