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Climate Connection
World Service Science explores climate change solutions
Climate Connection follows people championing issues that they believe are at the centre of the climate change debate.
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It's Big Energy, Stupid!
Hita Unnikrishnan, a British Council Environmental Champion, believes in local, renewable ways of producing energy and has worked on decentralised models of waste management and power generation. She takes her ethos to the big Indian cities of Bangalore and Chennai.
On air and online Thursday 3 December
Travel: Good for Humanity; Bad for the Planet?
Lawrence Pollard looks at the pros and cons of cheap air travel, and visits the United Arab Emirates to examine how attitudes to tourism may have to change.
On air and online Friday 4 December
A Return to Eden
Debating climate change issues
On the eve of the Copenhagen Conference, One Planet debates whether international summits are the best way to tackle climate change.
Joining the presenter of One Planet, Mike Williams, will be John Sauven executive director of Greenpeace ; Vicki Pope of the UK Met Office climate change centre ; Changhua Wu, the Greater China director of the Climate Group; and businessman Tim Smit, who created the Eden Project in Cornwall UK where the debate will be held.
The One Planet Debate: Copenhagen - A Return to Eden on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 December
State Secrets
Healing the old wounds of communism
Former communist regimes in Eastern Europe controlled the lives of their citizens to extremes.
Those suspected of having anti-communist sympathies could be followed, phone-tapped, or threatened. They were under scrutiny wherever they went, whatever they did.
In the past two decades many of the old establishments which perpetrated these crimes against civil liberty have been broken up and reformed, and have opened up the records of what went on in Soviet times.
Now the BBC finds out what was in those secret files, and how different countries are dealing with the problems and pain that the legacy of totalitarianism has left behind.
State Secrets is on air and online on Friday 11 December
American Tabloid
James Ellroy under the spotlight
Harriett Gilbert and a small studio audience talk to acclaimed American writer James Ellroy who for the last fifteen years has been working on a massive fictional chronicle of 1960s America.
American Tabloid, the first of the three books, exposes the underbelly of a country on the threshold of Kennedy's golden age and follows three men close to the tentacles of power in a conspiracy with the Mafia that leads to the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and the assassination of JFK in Dallas.
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World Book Club with James Ellroy is on Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 December
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