Professor Sarah Dillon contributes expert insight to the BBC ’s Changing Climates series which runs Monday 21st April to Friday 25th April on Radio 4 Extra. Presented by the meteorologist John Hammond, with contributions by another Cambridge academic – Professor Mike Hulme in Geography – the series explores how science fiction has long served as a barometer for our curiosity, awe, and growing anxiety about the changing climate. The programmes trace how fiction has captured – and sometimes predicted – the shifting relationship between people and the planet, with broadcasts each night of climate-relevant stories from the BBC archive, including E.M. Forster’s chilling ‘The Machine Stops’ , J.G. Ballard’s dystopic ‘The Drowned World’, and Patricia Cumper’s ‘Biomass.’
