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Night Waves Undercurrents: Survival - Jared Diamond and John Gray discuss our chances in the 21st century.

Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the people who made the statues on Easter Island? Can we learn from their fate? In Night Waves: Undercurrents Philip Dodd will be asking the prize-winning scientist, Jared Diamond and the political philosopher John Gray what they believe underpins civilisation and whether we have the ingenuity and the will to confront the ecological challenges we face in the 21st century. That’s Night Waves: Undercurrents with Philip Dodd at 9.30pm here on BBC Radio 3.


Presenter: Philip Dodd
Producer: Zahid Warley



Additional information:
1) Jared Diamond’s book – Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is published by Allen Lane
2) John Gray’s book Straw Dogs is published by Granta.