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Burn Wild

Leah Sottile presents a story of two fugitive environmentalists, an eco-terrorist cell and a burning question: How far is too far to go to save the planet?

Radio 5 Live,10 episodes

Episodes

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Series 1
Introducing: Burn Wild
Two fugitive environmentalists, an eco-terrorist cell and a burning question.
30 Aug 2022,4 mins
Series 1
Episode 1: The Elves are watching
Smouldering ashes on a mountainside. A new threat: Eco-terrorism. A burning question.
06 Sep 2022,46 mins,
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Episode 2: The Family
A fugitive environmentalist - a man the government calls a terrorist - tells his story.
13 Sep 2022,50 mins,
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Episode 3: The case of Sunshine
More than fifteen years ago a woman, authorities call an eco-terrorist, vanished.
20 Sep 2022,50 mins,
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Episode 4: Ghosts and myths
What that word – terrorist – meant for those in this story, facing years behind bars.
27 Sep 2022,58 mins,
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Episode 5: The centre of the story
In a city that brought key people in this story together, Leah finds something unexpected
04 Oct 2022,41 mins,
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Episode 6: The Line
An ELF arson 25 years ago, near a town now lost to forest fire. The burning question.
11 Oct 2022,50 mins,
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Episode 7: When the Fed met the Radical. Again.
Two people – on opposite sides of the case of the Earth Liberation Front – meet again.
18 Oct 2022,40 mins
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Episode 8: Just like the rest of us
The mother of Josephine Sunshine Overaker tells her story. And a change of plea from Joe.
25 Oct 2022,53 mins
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Episode 8-and-a-half: Extraordinary collateral consequences
An update on Joseph Mahmoud Dibee.
10 Nov 2022,20 mins