Adventures in Nutopia

• Adventures in Nutopia - Series 4 Trailer

  A brief hello and news that work on Series Four is underway.

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• 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 series Not the Nine O Clock News. He is the host of Radio 4's Museum of Curiosity and creator of the long-running TV comedy panel show QI. He even once shared a flat with Douglas Adams. John has won numerous awards for his work and has a happy, stable loving relationship and three children. Despite this, he has struggled with depression and in his early forties experienced a long dark night of the soul, out of which he came to some profound revelations. In this extra topping to conclude series three John shares his wisdom and ignorance on life, the universe and everything.  With guest John Lloyd 

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• 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 and radio presenter he wrote over twenty books, gave hundreds of public lectures and sought out a life in which (in his own words) he could 'swing'.  Watts had a rare genius for expressing with clarity and humour complex and challenging ideas about reality and how we came to relate to the world in the way that we do.  In this episode, AIN's David Bramwell explores Watts' fondness for seeing the universe as essentially playful, and asks the question: had Watts been alive today, what words of wisdom he might have had for our culture wars, our divisive political leaders and how to find compassion and understanding in times of conflict.  https://alanwatts.org/ With special thanks to Mark Watts for kind permission to use the archive footage of the late Alan Watts for this episode.  

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• 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 by their contributions to science. Why is our idea of intelligence so skewed? How did IQ come to be our standard measure for intelligence? Is there a deep intelligence in the more-than-human world of animals, plants, fungi and bacteria?  What about AI? Or politicians? Big questions for one episode but with the help of an eminent guests, James Bridle, Emma Kilbey and QI's John Lloyd – none of whose IQs we could give two hoots about – let's see what we can uncover. With guests Emma Kilbey, Sir John Lloyd and James Bridle  https://www.qi.com/ www.jamesbridle.com https://www.emmakilbey.com/

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• 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 scientists. Bitch challenges outdated preconceptions and biases around the female of the species being sexually coy, monogamous and passive and males being sexually dominant and promiscuous. It also challenges broader expectations around male and female roles and why binary ways of looking at the world and ourselves are increasingly being challenged. David meets up with zoologist, broadcaster and author Lucy Cooke in a woodland in Sussex to talk birdsong, bonobos, same sex parenting, sex changing fish, menopausal whales, parthenogenesis and murderous meerkats. Trigger warning: this episode contains discussions about vomit bubbles and sexual cannibalism.   With guest Lucy Cooke http://www.lucycooke.tv/

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