Adventures in Nutopia
af David Bramwell
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Welcome to Nutopia, a documentary-style series exploring radical ideas, new myths and social movements for a positive future shaped by community, re-enchantment, sustainability, ecology, creativity, magic and compassion. Don't worry about poe-faced beard-stroking, there's plenty of mischief, weirdness and fun to be had.
Written and presented by Sony award-winning broadcaster David Bramwell.
With generous support from the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and Hawkwood College.
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- Extra Topping: Let Paul Robeson Sing! The Life and Struggles of the Godfather of Civil Rights · 17 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 7Adventures in Nutopia has been a bit quiet of late so I thought you might appreciate an audio essay on the extraordinary and courageous life of the singer, actor and activist…
- The Magic Hour · 1 t. 0 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 6The 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…
- Biomimicry & the Internet of Animals · 47 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 5Biomimicry, the science of learning from nature's genius, is helping us in areas as diverse as architecture, pollution, air conditioning, clothing, robotics, fire-resistant…
- Panpsychism: The Quiet Dreaming of Atoms · 1 t. 11 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 4Science 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…
- Animal Medicine · 1 t. 16 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 3For 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…
- Viva Anarchism! Part Two: Anarchy in Action · 59 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 2In 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…
- Viva Anarchism! Part One: Seeds Beneath the Snow · 55 min. · Sæson 4 Episode 1'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…
- Adventures in Nutopia - Series 4 Trailer · 2 min. · Sæson 4A brief hello and news that work on Series Four is underway.
- Extra Topping - The Wisdom and Ignorance of John Lloyd · 14 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 6John 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…
- The Wiggly World of Alan Watts · 42 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 5The 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…
- Smarter Than the Average Bear? · 51 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 4Search 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…
- Deadlier Than the Male · 49 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 3Lucy 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…
- Where is My Mind? · 57 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 2Is 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…
- S3 Appetiser - Keeping it Random · 20 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 1Alan 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…
- Series Two Extra Topping: The Mangled Ones · 4 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 5In 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…
- The Healing Power of Sound · 48 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 4Are 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…
- The Poetry of the Night · 58 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 3Our ancestors invested great importance in the power of dreams. Across traditional, indigenous and pre-industrialised cultures – including the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians – they…
- Less is More · 58 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 2If 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…
- Ghosts of the Medicine Show · 1 t. 1 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 1As 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…
- Series Two Appetiser with the Eden Project's Tim Smit · 10 min.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…
