Life in soil: Tasting the earth in France

Misha Glenny's final programme on Russia - what it is and where it came from - looks at the country's attitude to war. What has been the long lasting effect of the great patriotic wars against Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte? Plus the Poles, the Mongols, and the British in Cr ...  Afficher plus

It was Peter the Great who created a new capital on the Baltic, and Catherine the Great who extended Russian influence south and west. Sweden, Poland, and the Ottomans all felt the Russian expansion in a century of geopolitical drama. This, says presenter Misha Glenny, is all par ...  Afficher plus

Anne Ghesquière reçoit l’experte et auteure Perrine Hervé-Gruyer pour parler de l’expérience permaculturelle à la ferme du Bec-Hellouin suite à la sortie du livre de référence “Vivre avec la Terre” chez Actes Sud. Une expérience en rupture profonde avec les models actuels et q ...

More than half of the world’s agricultural land is degraded and, according to the World Economic Forum, ‘within 50 years, there may not be enough soil left to feed the world’.But this doesn’t have to be the end of the story. In this episode of the Nature-Based Solutions takeover, ...  Afficher plus

Kim Chakanetsa talks to a multi-award winning wine expert from France and a young sommelier from Kenya who was part of the first all-female team to take part in the World Wine Blind Tasting Championships 2022.

Pascaline Lepeltier was studying for a PhD in Philosophy whe ...

Sebastian and Rutendo celebrate nature’s defenders in all their forms. They argue that vultures should get more credit for their vital role as scavengers. Their super-acidic stomachs kill off deadly bacteria, like anthrax, that accumulates onrotting carcasses. This prevents the s ...  Afficher plus