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Behind the scenes at the Guardian, former editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger and his team reveal a newspaper’s mission to help save the world from climate change. Can they find a new narrative to tell a 20 year-old story? And what will they risk in their efforts to do so? This award winning podcast is simply a must: you don’t have to know much about climate change to begin, we explain everything and what we can all do to stop it in its tracks

  1. 06/19/2015

    The biggest story in the world podcast - Episode 12: Impact

    As the curtains close on Alan Rusbridger's editorship the first phase of the Keep it in the Ground campaign draws to an end

    33 min

  2. 06/04/2015

    Episode 11: Investigations

    The Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation say they won't divest from fossil fuels because they are happy with the ethics of their investments, but are they right?

    24 min

  3. 05/29/2015

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 10, Shell

    Shell's CEO, Ben Van Beurden, has agreed to be grilled by the Guardian on everything from divestment to economics and responsibility – but will he give some unguarded answers?

    43 min

  4. 05/21/2015

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 9, Religion

    In this episode we go to churches and mosques to see what we can learn about spreading the climate change message

    29 min

  5. 05/14/2015

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 8, the US

    It's time to talk about one of the biggest players in the climate change story, the US, and look at its climate denial movement

    22 min

  6. 05/07/2015

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 7, Attacks

    This week we head outside the glass offices of the Guardian to hear what the outside world makes of the campaign

    23 min

  7. 04/29/2015

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 6, Psychology

    Now it's time for the team to face the biggest challenge so far. Why do we find it so hard to care about climate change?

    23 min

  8. 04/20/2015

    The biggest story in the world podcast: Episode 5, Economics

    Larry Elliot, the Guardian's economics editor sets out to do something no economist has yet managed; to figure out the maths of keeping it in the ground. What would happen to the global economy and would we face a global recession?

    30 min
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Behind the scenes at the Guardian, former editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger and his team reveal a newspaper’s mission to help save the world from climate change. Can they find a new narrative to tell a 20 year-old story? And what will they risk in their efforts to do so? This award winning podcast is simply a must: you don’t have to know much about climate change to begin, we explain everything and what we can all do to stop it in its tracks

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