Karen Brooks raises the curtain on a world where engines race, music soars, and the future of clean energy takes centre stage with musical legend Sir Richard Stilgoe. Richard explains how the 2024 revival of Starlight Express swapped steam for hydrogen - and why storytelling matters in the clean-energy transition. We explore creativity, clean energy, and how the arts can help society imagine a hydrogen-powered future.

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The Only Way is Hydrogen? – Small molecule. Big clean future

Hosted by Karen Brooks, Deputy Director of GW-SHIFT and green hydrogen-curious newbie,

The Only Way is Hydrogen is a 12-episode podcast exploring the real role hydrogen could

play in creating a cleaner future.

Across the series, Karen speaks with experts from local government, energy utilities,

transport, industry, research, the arts, businesses and communities to cut through hype

and explain hydrogen in plain language.

Episodes explore hydrogen’s role in heating homes, transport, and industry; how it

compares with electricity; what it means for cost, reliability, jobs, and everyday life; and

what must change in policy and infrastructure to reach net zero by 2050.

Rather than promoting green hydrogen as a silver bullet, the series focuses on evidence,

lived experience, and honest debate - helping listeners understand where hydrogen

genuinely fits, and where it doesn’t.

Is hydrogen the only way o or just one part of the solution?

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