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How a Lincolnshire builder is preparing for a warmer, wetter future
In this story we meet Chris Carr, managing director of Carr & Carr Builders, a family-run housing company that has been building homes in Northern Lincolnshire for more than 110 years. We visited…
The Stockport family learning to live with the rising risk of flooding
In this story we hear from Abi and Steve Churchley, whose family home in Stockport, where they live with their two daughters, has been flooded twice in recent years, first in 2019 and again in 2025.…
How changing weather is putting pressure on Britain’s beekeepers
In this story we speak with Ian Campbell, a beekeeper and spokesperson for the British Beekeepers Association, at his apiary near Newcastle. Ian has been keeping bees for decades, witnessing…
How a village pub is feeling the pressure of floods, rising bills, and climate change
In this story we visit The Royal Oak in Brandon, just outside Coventry, a pub that flooded 12 times during the winter of 2023/24. Owner Khara Schrijvers describes the devastation caused by Storm…
How a Cornish harbour is using clean engine tech to future proof fishing
In this story we speak with Adrian Bartlett and Dave Stevens at Newlyn Harbour in Cornwall, home to the trawler the Crystal Sea for the past 47 years. Adrian began his fishing career in the…
How a Devon farm uses silvopasture and wetland creation to help weather climate extremes
In this story we speak with David Thomas and Jason Greenway at Springwater Farm, on the Killerton Estate in Devon. David is a senior land advisor who works on natural flood management (leaky dams,…
How a village’s first flood changed one man’s view on climate change
In this story we hear from Pete Paragreen, a retired electrician and long-time resident of Burstwick, a small village just outside Hull that was hit hard during the devastating 2007 floods. While…
How a Kilnsea farmer came to terms with the sea taking his land
In this story we speak with Andrew Wells, a retired dairy farmer who now runs a B&B in Kilnsea, a small village teetering on the edge of the Holderness coast. Kilnsea is about 20 minutes down the…
How improving public health and combating climate change are the same issue
In this story we hear from Dr Munro Stewart, a GP in Dundee. He works in a busy medical practice which covers a mixture of areas, some with serious deprivation and some more affluent. We walked…
How repeated flooding has shaped one family across generations
In this story we hear from Alister Haywood, who shares her harrowing experience of living through three devastating floods - twice as a child, and again as a mother during the catastrophic 2007…
How introducing beavers and slowing the flow of rivers reduces flood risk
In this story we speak with Mike Potter in Pickering, a market town in North Yorkshire which was flooded four times in eight years between 1999 and 2007. The final flood caused an estimated £7…
The school students losing land to rapid coastal erosion
Sarah Harris-Smith and three of her students at Withernsea High School describe the impacts of the rapidly changing coastline on their future.In this story we speak with Sarah Harris-Smith - a…
The grassroots football club in North Yorkshire dealing with the impacts of flooding
In this story we speak with Andy Charlesworth, the chairman of Tadcaster Albion FC, a team based in North Yorkshire that competes in the Northern Counties Eastern League. Andy has been chairman of…
How floods are making it harder for small businesses in Pontypridd
We went to the South Wales valleys at the end of last year to speak to some people about the impact of the flooding caused by Storm Bert in late 2024. Mill Street in Pontypridd was completely washed…
A Wiltshire midwife discusses the impact of flooding and air pollution on childbirth
Angie’s been a midwife in Heddington, Wiltshire for the last twelve years. In this episode, she discusses the complications that climate change can have for pregnant women. Air pollution and…
How a Gloucestershire paramedic is coping with hotter summers and the challenges of overheating
We went for a walk in Stroud with Andy West. He’s been a paramedic for the South Western Ambulance Service in Gloucestershire for 21 years, and he’s currently a clinical trainer for paramedics and…
The CEO of Mountain Rescue England and Wales talks the changes in weather and urban flood rescue
We took a walk with Mike Park through the Buttermere valley, up the Gasgale Gill trail, a path known for hiking and running which frequently sees accidents. He’s been a Mountain Rescue volunteer in…
How a seaside cafe in Stonehaven is coping with frequent floods from intense storms
This is the last of three episodes featuring stories from Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire. For this one, we spoke with Janice Langdon, who’s lived in Stonehaven her whole life. She’s the owner of Molly’s…
The toll of worsening weather on Aberdeenshire farmers, who’ve seen hundreds of pigs lost
Here’s the second part of our Stonehaven mini-series. The first voice is Geordie Mair, who’s been living on the North East coast of Scotland for almost 80 years. He’s living in a tide cottage, and…
The challenges an Aberdeenshire fisherman faces as storms become more frequent and severe
This is the first of three Stonehaven stories from a recent trip to the east coast of Scotland. Wes Lewis has been fishing all his life. A commercial fisherman for 20 years, he used to fish for bass…
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