Thin Air
We not only live in the atmosphere, we live because of it. It is a transformer and a protector, though ultimately also a poison.
In addition to presenting the below radio series for the BBC, Gabrielle has also frequently contributed to flagship BBC radio programmes including Any Questions,Night Waves, Start the Week, Today, Leading Edge, Woman’s Hour, Science in Action, Discovery and Drivetime. She has also contributed to National Public Radio in the USA, France Inter, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation and to many independent radio channels around the world
We not only live in the atmosphere, we live because of it. It is a transformer and a protector, though ultimately also a poison.
Episode 1: Gabrielle Walker explores why we know so little about the oceans that make up nearly 80 per cent of our planet.
Episode 2: Gabrielle meets the oceanographers who have explored the deep ocean. It is the most unexplored part of the planet, and makes up more than 50 per cent of its surface.
Episode 3: Gabrielle considers some of the remarkable resources that the oceans have to offer, from golden treasures lying hidden in the murky depths to possible new cures for cancer.
Episode 4: Gabrielle examines the intimate relationship between the oceans and our climate and the important role oceans may play in protecting us from the damaging effects of global warming.
Gabrielle Walker finds out how global warming is changing the natural world
In this four-part series, science writer and broadcaster Gabrielle Walker joined scientists from the British Antarctic Survey on board HMS Endurance as they sailed to the last great wilderness on Earth.
In the second series of An Earth Made for Life Gabrielle Walker continues her quest to understand why complex life is found on our planet, but not on any of our celestial neighbours. From the outback of Australia to the walls of the Grand Canyon Gabrielle unearths evidence of the dramatic changes that took place on our planet billions of years ago which may have triggered the rise of animals.
It’s amazing what you can find down a hole in the ground. In this series of short programmes, Gabrielle Walker meets scientists who are drilling into a volcano for energy, drilling into a crater to discover what killed the dinosaurs, drilling into the sea floor to discover very ancient life, drilling into a river system in Spain in search of alien life and drilling into the centre of Antarctica to discover a climate record 800,000 years old.