Pod Trawlers Episode 22 - how to save a planet, japanese women's rights, Sir Terence Conran, and MORE

Hello! Welcome back! 
 
Here are some great podcasts to see you through the rest of this Friday and the weekend, beginning with Vic’s choices of great podcasts, all three of which have a little bit, or a lot, come to think of it, to do with climate change:
 

1) The Daily – a New York Times podcast hosted by Michael Barbaro

The episode which Vic has chosen is called A Self-Perpetuating Cycle of Wildfires. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/podcasts/the-daily/wildfires-california-fire-zones.html

2) The Intelligence – a podcast produced by The Economist 
 
The episode recommended by Vic is called Great Walls of Fire. 

https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2020/09/11/in-the-western-us-you-have-this-double-whammy-of-urbanisation-plus-climate-change-california-ablaze

3) How To Save A Planet
 
Last but definitely not least, this brilliant podcast is brilliant because it accepts climate change as a given, and then focuses on what we, collectively, can do about it.
 
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet

The episode recommended by Vic is called Unnatural Disasters.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/8whgvrm/unnatural-disasters

Moving away from the subject of climate change, Veronika’s choices of favourite podcast listens are:

4) Sir Terence Conran on Desert Island Discs in 1996

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0093ncz

Sir Terence Conran died in September at the age of 88. He was an iconic designer and entrepreneur and, at one point in time, one of the UK’s most successful restaurateurs.
 
 

5) Witness History – The American Who Put Women's Rights in the Japanese Constitution

This is a BBC World Service Podcast. Each podcast consists of 10 minute snippets of history as told by the people who were there.

There are so many fascinating episodes to listen to, but Veronika’s choice this time around is an episode which was broadcast on the 8th of August. The episode is about Beata Sirota Gordon’s push to ensure that Japanese women were given equal rights in the post-war Constitution drafted by the Americans. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszmv7

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