Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Turned Out Nice Again, On Living With The Weather | 20130204 | Richard Mabey tells the story of a lifetime of weather in five blasts. When Hurricane Sandy's siege of New York in the autumn of 2012 was promptly followed by wave upon wave of marauding floods in Britain, the closing act in a year of numbing gloom and damp, the idea of 'global warming' began to sound a rather black joke. Ten years ago, some optimists were relishing the prospects of olive groves on the South Downs. Now it looks as if we may be heading full steam for the condition of Newfoundland. Producer: Tim Dee. Richard Mabey tells the story of a lifetime of weather. |
| 02 | Air-songs And Moon-bows | 20130205 | Richard Mabey tells the story of a lifetime of weather in five blasts. We all love to yarn about astonishing weather occurrences. And we're oddly proud of them. They didn't just happen, they happened to us. There are plaques on seaside buildings to commemorate the highest floods. National forecasters regularly announce, as if they are giving away end-of-term prizes, the highest temperatures, the deepest snowfalls, the earliest frosts, though on a scale that might be more appropriate for a local history project. 'Rainiest day in Manchester for four years' is hardly of record-breaking interest for the rest of us, but it is for the people who live there. There is, from our ringside seats at the oddball weather circus, an intriguing interplay between freak-show and something more neighbourly and local. Producer: Tim Dee. Richard Mabey tells the story of a lifetime of weather. |
| 03 | Black Dog | 20130206 | Richard Mabey explores the downside of weather on our imaginations. |
| 04 | Halcyon Days | 20130207 | Richard Mabey on happy days made by the weather including the halcyon days of winter. |
| 05 LAST | The Storm Clouds Of The 21st Century | 20130208 | Richard Mabey asks what the weather means to us nowadays. |