Every Breath We Take
Gabrielle Walker tells the remarkable story of how we discovered that the air around us is not just empty space, it is full of hidden wonders.
Gabrielle has made many television appearances for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky/BSB. A frequent contributing expert on programmes related to weather and climate and news stories related to science and the environment, she has also presented “The Secret Life of Ice” and the “Every Breath We Take” for BBC4.
Gabrielle Walker tells the remarkable story of how we discovered that the air around us is not just empty space, it is full of hidden wonders.
Ice is one of the strangest, most beguiling and mesmerising substances in the world. Full of contradictions, it’s transparent yet it can glow with colour; it’s powerful enough to shatter rock but it can melt in the blink of an eye. It takes many shapes, from the fleeting beauty of a snowflake to the multi-million tonne vastness of a glacier and the eeriness of the ice fountains of far-flung moons.
Science writer Dr Gabrielle Walker has been obsessed with ice ever since she first set foot on Arctic sea ice. In this programme she searches out some of the secrets hidden deep within the ice crystal, to try to discover how something so ephemeral has the power to sculpt landscapes, to preserve our past and inform our future.