Adventures in Nutopia
David Bramwell
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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…
S1E6 Medicine for the Soul
While western medicine excels at repairs and crisis management it remains, for many, too mechanical and reductive in its approach to important issues such as mental health, diet and lifestyle. With…
S1E5 Come On, Pilgrim
In 2019 artist Daisy Campbell led 69 seekers on a pilgrimage from the Cerne Giant to CERN in Switzerland and back. Their intention? To 'immanentise the eschaton.' David was there to see them off,…
S1E4 Ritualised
We delve into the nature of rituals, why they're important and how to create our own meaningful ones. With chief druid of Anglesey Kristoffer Hughes we'll learn about the power of death rituals and…
S1E3 It Came from the Ground
Recorded live at the agro-ecology festival Groundswell, this episode explores different ways that we could be radicalising global agriculture and reversing biodiversity loss through regenerative…
S1E2 The Map is Not the Territory
What makes people fall for conspiracy theories like QAnon? Is it possible to 'change' our minds? Might the idea of reality tunnels be the single most important thing to teach the next generation?…
S1E1 New Myths to Live By
If myths are the means by which we make sense of ourselves and the world around us, how did we become so fixated on stories and systems built around greed, selfishness and competition? How did we…
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Adventures in Nutopia has published 21 episodes since October 2022, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
Adventures in Nutopia is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 38m.
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