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5 Feb 2025

Our Future

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Our Future is tied to the future of our soil.

Our decisions as to how we care for and use it matter. Soil teaches us that cycles are ongoing, and even in decline every day offers us opportunities for new beginnings.

Ru Callander

Featured Artists

In this final episode Shenece Oretha explores the regenerative qualities of soil and composting as a model for personal redemption.

We hear from Palestinian grower Mohammed Saleh whose life story offers a personal story of hope, looking at how permaculture and art can help to heal the destructive impacts of war. Somerset Studios artist Harun Morrision’s singing compost invites us to see decay in a new light and Fin Jordâo lays out how composting can be a radical action for rethinking our relationships with each other and the planet.

Does the future hold a closer, more natural relationship with the soil by rethinking our relationship to burial? Radical undertaker Ru Callander reconsiders our attitude to death.

Mohammed Saleh
Harun Morrison © Jessica Potter
Fin Jordâo

Credits

    Presenter::

    Shenece Oretha

    Series produced by::

    Jo Barratt
    Alannah Chance

    Exec Producers::

    Alannah Chance

    Eleanor Ritter-Scott

    Original Music by::

    Andrew Pekler

    Mixed by::

    Mike Woolley

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