Adventures in Nutopia
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S4E6 The Magic Hour
The word 'magic' derives from the Old Persian 'magush' – to have power and wisdom. Nowadays the word has multiple meanings including stage illusions, awe and wonder, and the kind of fictional sorcery…
S4E5 Biomimicry & the Internet of Animals
Biomimicry, the science of learning from nature's genius, is helping us in areas as diverse as architecture, pollution, air conditioning, clothing, robotics, fire-resistant materials, flooding and…
S4E4 Panpsychism: The Quiet Dreaming of Atoms
Science has long wrestled with what is known as 'the hard problem' – how did consciousness arise out of matter? But what if we've been approaching the problem wrong, all this time? Thanks to some of…
S4E3 Animal Medicine
For the Greeks and other ancient cultures, animals played a key role in the diagnosis and healing of humans. In this episode we'll learn just how much animals are medicine to us, psychologically and…
S4E2 Viva Anarchism! Part Two: Anarchy in Action
In this episode we meet those who are putting anarchism into action through community building, including the founders of Doncaster's A Commune in the North and Bristol's Rockaway Park. We'll learn…
S4E1 Viva Anarchism! Part One: Seeds Beneath the Snow
'I am an anarchist! I am an antichrist!' sang the Sex Pistols' butter-loving John Lydon in 1976. But, as we'll discover in the first of this two-parter, anarchism has far more to do with allotments,…
S4 Adventures in Nutopia - Series 4 Trailer
A brief hello and news that work on Series Four is underway.
S3E6 Extra Topping - The Wisdom and Ignorance of John Lloyd
John Lloyd was producer for TV's Spitting Image, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and all four series of Blackadder. He is the creator of the News Quiz on Radio 4 and BBC2's iconoclastic comedy…
S3E5 The Wiggly World of Alan Watts
The self-styled entertainer philosopher Alan Watts wrote his first book on Zen in 1936 when only nineteen and grew to become a world expert on Eastern philosophy. A prolific author, public speaker…
S3E4 Smarter Than the Average Bear?
Search Google for the 'most intelligent' people who ever lived and the names most commonly thrown up are Galileo, Da Vinci, Einstein, Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawkin. All men, all western, all united…
S3E3 Deadlier Than the Male
Lucy Cooke's Bitch tells a wildly different story of reproduction, gender and sexual habits in the animal kingdom to those passed down to us by Darwin, Dawkins and other highly influential male…
S3E2 Where is My Mind?
Is mind contained within us, or us within it? When it comes to what science calls 'the hard problem', we still have no understanding about the nature of consciousness. That it could be a field,…
S3E1 S3 Appetiser - Keeping it Random
Alan Turin's 'automatic machine' remains the blueprint for nearly all of our modern computer systems. In an early paper however Turin wrote: 'of course another type of machine is possible. This is…
S2E5 Series Two Extra Topping: The Mangled Ones
In S2E1 we met Rogan Taylor, author of The Death and Resurrection Show a book which traces a path from popular entertainment to the darkened yurts of our nomadic ancestors. After writing this book…
S2E4 The Healing Power of Sound
Are our listening habits changing? What effects can sounds like drones and sine tones have on us physically and emotionally? Can we imagine a future in which we might receive audio prescriptions for…
S2E3 The Poetry of the Night
Our ancestors invested great importance in the power of dreams. Across traditional, indigenous and pre-industrialised cultures – including the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians – they were an integral…
S2E2 Less is More
If our capitalist economic model of perpetual growth was presented as a myth it would read something like the Sorcerer's Apprentice. As for our economic unit of measure, in a speech in 1968 Robert…
S2E1 Ghosts of the Medicine Show
As the lights dim and performers take to the stage, is it mere escapism for us or is there something deeply profound about our need to be entertained? Why do we get so fanatical and idolatrous about…
Series Two Appetiser with the Eden Project's Tim Smit
While Series Two edges a little closer to completion here's a short appetiser serving up some words of wisdom from The Eden Project's founder, who we'll meet properly in a future episode.
S1E7 Series One extra topping with comedian George Egg
Comedian and 'anarchist chef' George Egg was planned for inclusion in Series One but we just couldn't work out where to put him. So instead he gets a mini episode all of his own exploring his own…
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Adventures in Nutopia has published 27 episodes since October 2022, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
Adventures in Nutopia is currently sporadic with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 52m.
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