Deep Time and the Earth
How does the long long view of history change our way of thinking ?
Lewis Dartnell, Gaia Vince and David Farrier join Rana Mitter to look at deep ecology.
Gaia Vince is the author of Transendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty And Time
Lewis Dartnell's book is called Origins: How the earth shaped history
David Farrier has written a book called In Search of Future Fossils.
You can find a Free Thinking programme exploring rivers and geopolitics /programmes/m00051hb
Matthew Sweet talks to animal expert Jane Goodall /programmes/m00066qd
The influential writing of Arne Naess is discussed at in the middle of this programme after a conversation about the Thames estuary /programmes/b07tzydt
Producers: Luke Mulhall and Alex Mansfield
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