The Real World Podcast

Welcome back to the Real World Podcast! This is the final episode of Season 1 with your hosts Anouska, Esmee and Sophie, the next episode will be hosted by the new Geography Reps, Jasmine and Ash. In this week's episode we discussed EU geopolitics, starting with the introducing segment on Vladimir Putin. In 'Something You Have Always Wanted to Know' Sophie explains the underwater park in Austria. The new funding for Britishvolt to make electric car batteries is the topic for our climate change segment this week. In the main segment, we discuss the EU, why it was formed and its achievements, followed by Russian gas and the recent tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

Hi everyone! Welcome to the ninth episode of The Real World Podcast. To begin, Sophie will be telling you about the Cat Islands in Japan in 'something you always wanted to know'. Following this, Anouska will be speaking about rising deforestation levels in Brazil in the Climate Change story segment. For our main segment we will be focusing on Superpowers, discussing what makes a Superpower, different types of power, the history of Superpowers and the role of physical geography in determining Superpowers. Hope you enjoy!

Hi everyone! This week's episode is an indepth look at the current COP26 conference in Glasgow. To begin, Esmée explains the Paris Agreement to provide context for this years conference, given that many of the Paris goals are prevalent in COP26. Following this, Anouska will take you through a summary of what has been agreed in the conference so far. Finally, Sophie will talk about some specific speakers at the conference and what they contributed. To close, your hosts have provided you with some additional COP26 related recommendations. However, the conference is not over yet, so we encourage you to stay up-to-date with agreements and outcomes of COP26!

The Real World Podcast is back after the summer holidays! In this episode the theme will be Volcanology and Tectonics which is Sophie's key area of interest. Our introducing segment will be on Jess Phoenix who is a volcano scientist, in the climate change segment we will be discussing Insulate Britain's recent protests and finally, our main segment will be Sophie taking you through some particularly interesting things in the field of volcanology and tectonics.

Welcome back to The Real World Podcast! In this weeks episode Esmée will introduce you to Waris Dirie a model, author and human rights activists followed by Sophie enlightening you on the furthest point from land on Earth. Anouska will then take you through a summary of the environmental discussions that took place in this years G7 Summit for your climate change story. Finally, for the main segment of this weeks episode your hosts will be discussing tribes and lifestyles in the worlds hot deserts as well as desertification and the future of deserts. We hope you have a great summer and we will back with weekly episodes in September!

In todays episode your hosts Esmée, Anouska and Sophie begin by introducing the campaigner Mya-Rose Craig followed by Sophie explaning the shortest flight in the world in 'Something you have always wanted to know'. For the climate change story this week, Anouska brings your attention to the plan to plant 18 million trees in Glasgow. The main segment of this episode covers life in The Arctic Circle including things like how they live, food they eat, jobs they have and how climate change will affect their lifestyle.

For this weeks episode your hosts, Anouska, Esmée and Sophie, begin by introducing Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim the indigenous activist. Following this is Sophie talking about the US town with a population of 1 person and Anouska taking you through our climate change story about a potential British Tea crisis. Finally, the main segment in this episode discusses a small selection of the many NGOs that aim to reduce the impacts of climate change. Of course we have our recommendations of other podcasts to listen to (after ours!) which are linked below: Living Planet: https://open.spotify.com/show/2VpKkJpk2VEyvEztek9adB Costing the Earth: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r4wn

In this weeks episode your hosts Sophie, Anouska and Esmée introduce Wangari Maathai in the first segment, discuss the deepest place on earth in 'Something you have always wanted to know' and explain progress in carbon capture technology at Peterhead Power Station for our climate change news story. The main segment in this episode is inspired by the Eco-Week our school is hosting. We explain the impact of meat consumption and plastic pollution on our planet and what you can do to minimise your plastic and meat consumption.

This week your hosts Esmée, Anouska and Sophie will be discussing space tourism and space debris in the main segment, Yellowstone volcano, astronaut Helen Sharman in our 'Introducing' segment and the recently launched LEAF Coalition in our climate change news story of the week. There are also some recommendations for other space-related podcasts to listen to (alongside ours of course!).

Welcome to the first episode of The Real World Podcast! Your hosts Anouska, Esmée and Sophie will introduce our podcast and segments in the episodes. This episode discusses things like how the Dead Sea got its name, the closure of the second to last coal fired power station in the UK and recent imposed tariffs as well as some relevant book recommendations.