1 February 2006
Wednesday 1 February 2006 21:35-22:15 (Radio 3)
Between destiny and disaster - On Night Waves Undercurrents Isabel Hilton explores man's relationship to nature with the bioethicist Janet Radcliffe Richards, the philospher Jonathan Ree, the theologian and environmentalist Martin Palmer and the literary historian Steve Connor
Programme Details
Never mind Debussy’s submerged cathedral and its tolling bell or the miraculous undersea world of Jacques Cousteau; never mind Nostradamus if it comes to that. At the beginning of this week we were told something as extraordinary, topsy turvy and terrifying as anything any of them imagined or experienced…..the way things are going climate change is likely to cause the Greenland ice cap to melt causing sea levels to rise by seven metres over the next thousand years. The probable devastation can only make you wonder about man’s relationship to nature. Have our arrogance and selfishness led us to the brink of catastrophe or is our predicament a simple and natural consequence of our desire to survive in a hostile world? In Night Waves Undercurrents this evening Isabel Hilton and her guests will be discussing what we mean by nature and the natural today, how and why this has changed since the days when Eve was formed from one of Adam’s ribs and what the social and ethical consequences are. Are men and women part of the natural world still or have we somehow fallen out of step with it? That's Night Waves Undercurrents on BBC Radio 3 at nine thirty this evening with the bioethicist Janet Radcliffe Richards, the philospher Jonathan Ree, the theologian and environmentalist Martin Palmer and the literary historian Steve Connor
