The Geographical Podcast
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Episodes
39 episodes
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 Islands, where
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Episode 13
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21:49
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 Davide Mancini report from Spain, w...
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Episode 12
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23:52
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 photographer Anthony Ham in Australia's G...
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Episode 11
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26:01
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
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19:27
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 save Mexico’s famous cenotes – natura...
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Episode 11
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25:54
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 –
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Episode 10
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25:53
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 new visa regulations on the UK’s fish...
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Episode 9
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24:09
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 Dawn Hollis, a historian at St And...
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Episode 8
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24:15
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 to protect her ancestral territory, the forest ecosystem and her way of life, from encroaching...
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Episode 7
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30:41
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
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44:04
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 Egyptian mystery and writer Alec Ash's decision to ditch the rat race in China and move to the beaut...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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36:27
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 Antarctica; and visit the rooibos plantations in South Africa's Cederberg Mountains, where Indigenous...
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Episode 5
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26:22
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 leopard. Plus, a bizarre proposal in Malaysia and the terrifying, underreported, impacts of clim...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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30:54
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 misleading; we hear some good news from the world of conservation; and Bryony Cottam charts the a...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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25:54
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 climate change is
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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32:20
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 treating clubfoot.
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18:52
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.
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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25:41
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 threat: desertification. Human activity and our warming climate are driving changes in these region...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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32:11
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. Syrian infrastructure, and its economy, have been devastated by the conflict that began i...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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49:37
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 reintroducing lost species back to a land they once called home, especially when that land has changed...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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32:12
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 at the University of Amsterdam to find out why so many small-scale fishing communities are und...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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36:06
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 after by herders. But as we discover in this month's podcast, increased demand for cashmere h...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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28:32
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 workings of CITES, the international agreement designed to monitor the international wildlife tr...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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29:04
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 ecologists understand that, in addition to outright forest loss, there is another pernicious iss...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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51:17
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. But many scientists are concerned by this issue; they believe that we simply do not know enough...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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34:20