Green In The Media 1st February - 7th February

There's a welcome repeat of the documentary Pig Business on Tuesday. If you missed it last year, then make sure you catch it this week.

Monday 1st February

Start the Week
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 09:00 to 09:45 (Also 2130)
Tom Sutcliffe finds out why green activist Stewart Brand is now advocating urbanisation, nuclear power and genetically-modified crops.

Costing the Earth
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 21:00 to 21:30 (Also Thu 1330)
The New Diggers.
Alice Roberts travels across Britain to meet the new breed of growers, guerilla gardeners and part-time farmers determined to make Britain's wasteland fertile once more.

Tuesday 2nd February

Pig Business
On: more4
Time: 23:50 to 01:25
Eco-campaigner Tracy Worcester, a former actress and now Marchioness of Worcester, has campaigned for years for quality food, animal welfare and environmental protection through a revitalisation of rural economies. Pig Business is her four year exploration of intensive pig farming. She argues that intensive production systems can harm human and environmental health, and is pushing traditional farmers out of business. In the film, she travels from the UK to the US and Poland to meet local people who claim to have been adversely affected by the new industrial pig production methods, as well as leading politicians and environmental campaigner Robert Kennedy Junior. Worcester also confronts industrial farming executives with her findings and argues that supermarket labelling is not a reliable guide to where pork is actually sourced from.

Thursday 4th February

Live Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Questions
On: BBC Parliament
Time: 10:30 to 11:30 (Also 0100)
Live coverage of questions in the House of Commons to Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Hilary Benn and his team of ministers.

One Planet
On: BBC World Service Radio
Time: 10:32 to 11:00 (Also 1530, 2030, 0130, Sun 0630)
One Planet looks at how we use our planet.

The Material World
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 16:30 to 17:00
Take the carbon dioxide from a power station or factory chimney and use it to grow algae which are then turned into biofuel. It sounds too good to be true and of course there's a snag; you have to disolve the carbon dioxide in water before the algae can use it and that only happens slowly - unless you inject it as microscopic bubbles, and that takes a lot of energy. Quentin Cooper hears how researchers in Sheffield have developed a much more energy-efficient way of producing microbubbles and are applying it both to biofuel production and cleaning up pollution.

Sunday 7th February

The Food Programme
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 12:32 to 12:57
Seeds.
Sheila Dillon asks if seed legislation is inhibiting farmers' and growers' ability to adapt to climate change.

Countryfile
On: BBC 1
Time: 18:00 to 19:00
Matt Baker and Julia Bradbury are in the Yorkshire Dales, to see how conservationists are restoring peat bogs destroyed during the 60s and 70s. Meanwhile John Craven investigates the demise of our dairy farms.


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