Our Changing World
Thursday 19th November. Get ideas on how you can connect with your audience around themes of climate change, sustainability, biodiversity and nature. For all content makers, storytellers and creatives across all genres and formats.
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Taking place in the iconic BBC Radio Theatre, this event has been curated with speakers and panellists from a range of content genres to share their experiences, learning and specialist expertise. The aim is to inspire content makers, storytellers and creatives across all genres and formats on how they can engage their audiences on the themes of climate change, sustainability, biodiversity and nature.
After the event, there will be a special screening of an episode from Blue Planet III accompanied by insights from the BBC Studios Natural History Unit team.
Event Details
09:00 Registration opens
10:30 Welcome
16:30 Event closes followed by a post-event networking opportunity
15:30 Registration opens
19:10 Event closes
Booking forms
Please note there is one booking form to attend the main event and another booking form to attend the screening. If you would like to attend both events, please complete both forms.
WE ARE NOW FULLY BOOKED TO ATTEND THE MAIN EVENT. Places are still available to attend the screening and you can still register to watch the event online.
Booking links
Welcome
Keynote conversation: Telling the story of Our Changing World
How is climate change impacting storytelling? Are we doing it right and what could we do better both? Chaired by the BBC's Culture and Media editor, Katie Razzall, this panel sets the scene for the day.
Joining Katie to examine the challenges and opportunities of climate storytelling, is the Controller of Radio 4, Mohit Bakaya, and Navin Singh-Khadka, Global Environment Correspondent, BBC World Service.
Language, Jargon & Noise
Climate change storytelling can be a minefield. Journalist Mary Hockaday, reporter Mark Poynting and others will be discussing how do we cut to the heart of the story while navigating complex facts amid the noise of campaigners and politicians. And which paths do we choose and how do we know we’ve picked the right one.
Acting Responsibly – A Dramatic Approach
What happens when drama and climate change intersect? In this session we focus the lens on tackling climate change in drama and what we can do behind the scenes to influence a change in thinking.
Joining Danielle Mulder, Head of BBC Sustainability are Rebecca Durbin, Executive Producer, The Rapture; Amelia Price from Sustainable Film and actor and co-founder of Green Rider Fehinti Balogun.
Future Of Natural History
Our responses to the natural world can have the biggest impact. How is natural history storytelling impacted by climate change and how do we get to the hard to reach audiences? To discuss this, we’ll be joined by Mike Gunton, Mark Brownlow, Sophie Pavelle.
Watch again
Climate Creatives 2025 and previous BBC Academy Climate Creatives events.
