Text in The City - 'Minds' by Benjamin Zephaniah. Read by Surriya Falconer

Text in The City - 'Laughter' by Harold Pinter. Read by Sam West

Text in The City - 'Heroes' by Benjamin Zephaniah . Read by Warda Yassin

Text in The City - 'Here Lies a City's Heart' by Berlie Doherty. Read by Maria de Souza

Text in The City - 'Getting Trashed on Cider' by Jarvis Cocker. Read by Tommi Bryson

This podcast explores our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on the planet: plastic.

Over three episodes, Professor Joanna Gavins talks to experts from a range of different academic disciplines to try to understand how plastic became such an integral part of modern life, how we came to have over 10 million tons of plastic polluting our oceans every year, and how academic research might help us live with plastics more responsibly and more sustainably.

Episode 3 – The Human Problem: Dr Harriet Baird, Professor Joanna Gavins – pro-environmental change.

This podcast explores our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on the planet: plastic. Over three episodes, Professor Joanna Gavins talks to experts from a range of different academic disciplines to try to understand how plastic became such an integral part of modern life, how we came to have over 10 million tons of plastic polluting our oceans every year, and how academic research might help us live with plastics more responsibly and more sustainably.

Episode 2 – Systems Solutions: Professor Rachael Rothman – use and reuse.

This podcast explores our relationship with one of the most ubiquitous and controversial materials on the planet: plastic. Over three episodes, Professor Joanna Gavins talks to experts from a range of different academic disciplines to try to understand how plastic became such an integral part of modern life, how we came to have over 10 million tons of plastic polluting our oceans every year, and how academic research might help us live with plastics more responsibly and more sustainably.

Episode 1 – Plastic Planet: Professor Tony Ryan, Dr Rorie Beswick-Parsons – the history of plastics and pollution.