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The Geographical Podcast
Welcome to The Geographical Podcast, brought to you by Geographical Magazine, the official publication of the Royal Geographical Society. Geographical helps our readers navigate an ever-changing and complex world. Featuring talented and perceptive writers from across the globe, our rigorous and ente...
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Editor's Picks: The tourists restoring the Faroe Islands
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.
This week, we’re in the Faroe Islan...
Editor's Picks: A victory for nature
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.
This week, journalists Marcello Rossi and...
Editor's Picks: The return of the mala
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine and website.
This week, we join writer and photographe...
Editor's Picks: 'We suffer in silence'
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.
This week, share Nick Danziger's work to d...
Editor's Picks: Stop the train
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.
This week, we report on the campaign to sa...
Editor's Picks: Conservation is working
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.
This week, we hear how – worldwide – natur...
Editor's Picks: A new threat to the UK's fishing industry
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.
This week, we investigate the impact of ne...
Editor's Picks: The meaning of mountains
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.
This week, we head into the mountains with...
Editor's Picks: The fight for the Amazon
This week, we head into the Ecuadorian Amazon, where Indigenous leader and environmental activist Nemonte Nenquimo has spent the last decade fighting...
Interview: Saving the African manatee with Aristide Kamla
In this bonus episode, we interview recent Whitley Award winner Aristide Kamla and hear all about his work, conserving Cameroon's marine wildlife
Editor's Picks: Saving Ecuador's last condors
This week, a trip to the Ecuadorian Andes where Mark Stratton visits a project aiming to save the country's last wild condors. Plus, an ancient Egypti...
Editor's Picks: A fairer future for South Africa's rooibos farmers
This week, we dive into the science of shipwrecks and find out what they can reveal about our changing oceans; board an icebreaker en route to Antarct...
Editor's Picks: The brain and climate change, and tracking the elusive snow leopard
This week, we travel to the high peaks of Ladakh in northern India to track one of the most elusive and charismatic animals in the world - the snow le...
Editor's Picks: Hunting the world's largest flower
In this episode, Andrew Brooks of King's College London explains why using historical comparisons when contemplating African hospitals is lazy and mis...
Editor's Picks: Why tourists are returning to Iraq
In this weekly edition of the Geographical podcast, we read out three articles from the magazine or website.
In this episode, we hear how climat...
Editor's Picks BONUS: Tommy Trenchard on writing about clubfoot
In this bonus episode of The Geographical Podcast: Editor's Picks, associate editor Katie Burton speaks to Tommy Trenchard about his article on treat...
Editor's Picks: Treating clubfoot in Zimbabwe
In this weekly edition of the Geographical podcast we read out three articles from the magazine or website.
Desertification: a Growing Threat
In this month's podcast, we visit some of the driest parts of the world, where ecosystems and the communities that depend on them face a growing threa...
Life in Syria today
This month we return to a country that no longer dominates headlines, but where the reality of war, and its impacts, are still very much felt.
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Debating rewilding and a conservation success in Rwanda
In this month's podcast we take a closer look at the complex and often controversial concept of rewilding, considering the many challenges of reintrod...
How small-scale fishing communities have to fight to survive
This month we take a trip to Cameroon, where a policy to help small-scale fishers is under severe strain. And we talk to Maarten Bavinck, a professor...
Cashmere crisis: Working towards more sustainable production in India, Mongolia and China
Cashmere is produced in cold regions of India, China and Mongolia, among other places. It is produced from the very fine fibres of hardy goats, looked...
The problem with CITES, the international convention meant to protect wildlife
This episode of The Geographical Podcast features a long-read from the April issue of Geographical magazine in which Roman Goergen investigates the wo...
The way of the jaguar: Forest fragmentation in a developing world
This month, we’re exploring the subject of forest loss. Around the world, outright deforestation grabs headlines, and was a key theme of COP26. But ec...
Should we mine the deep sea?
This month, we’re venturing to the deepest, darkest places of the ocean. There are those that would like to mine these remote and unexplored places. B...
The medicinal plants of peatlands and bogs; and Edward Struzik, author of Swamplands
This episode, we head over to the peatlands of Ireland. Degraded and drained, Ireland’s peatlands face an uncertain future. But a groundbreaking proje...
The beaver's rightful return to Britain
This month, we turn our attention to a miraculous rodent. To the delight of conservationists and the British public, the beaver is back, busy on our w...
A climate scientist talks COP26, climate denial, and how to engage everyone in the fight against the climate crisis
This month, we’ve dedicated an entire print issue of our magazine to COP26 and the climate. The issue is jam-packed with views and insights on climate...
Save forests, store carbon
With COP26 soon kicking off, we’ve dedicated the entire November issue of Geographical to the climate. The print edition is jam-packed with insights o...
Searching for the Persian leopard – the cat caught in conflict; and the aftermath in Nagorno Karabakh
This episode, we’re on the prowl for one of the rarest cats on the planet: the elusive Persian Leopard. Until the 20th century, leopards were the king...
The power of oysters to save the seas; and the impact of industrial fishing
This August, we turn our attention to a much-loved shellfish, well-known for its remarkable flavour – the oyster. Perhaps less well known however, is...
All change in the Arctic
In this month's edition of the Geographical podcast we take a close look at the Arctic. As the Arctic ice melts due to global warming, neighbouring st...
An adventurer’s purpose in the modern world
This month on The Geographical Podcast, we review the role of exploration in the modern day. Going out into the world’s wildernesses or performing ext...
What does the G7 stand for and what can it achieve, with Tim Marshal
The G7 summit is taking place this weekend, kicking off in Cornwall on Friday 11th June. Our geopolitics columnist, Tim Marshal, wrote about the confe...
The changing geography of sexuality; and an end to the captive breeding and canned hunting of South African lions
Welcome to The Geographical Podcast, brought to you by Geographical Magazine. The official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society.
This mon...
Caging a Star: Inside the world’s biggest nuclear fusion experiment; plus, lethal robotics and the artificial intelligence arms race
This month, we travel to the south of France, where the world’s biggest nuclear fusion experiment is underway. Nuclear fusion, the reaction constantly...
The storms to come: What a new US administration means for the climate
This month, our long-read is Mark Rowe’s dossier about climate change in the USA. Mark looks at the Donald Trump years, and the huge swathe of climate...
Building wilderness: The plot to restore the ecosystem of the Scottish Highlands
Although beautiful, the rolling hills and snaking glens of the Scottish Highlands are, in fact, landscapes that have been damaged by human beings. Muc...
Can Covid-19's legacy aid the fight against other, more neglected diseases?
The task of quickly designing and clinically testing Covid-19 vaccines has now given way to the formidable challenge of distributing them.