Ireland’s Changing Nature 1/3
Irelands Changing Nature is a three-part series exploring Ireland’s changing landscapes and in particular, how culture has shaped our beliefs and attitudes around the natural world. The series examines the history of the relationship between Ireland’s natural environment and the people who have lived here through the ages, featuring an eclectic weaving together of woolly mammoths, hunter gatherers, Bronze Age rituals, Cromwellian settlers, psychology, and future rewilding of mountains and bogs.
Written and presented by Anja Murray and with an original score from cellist and composer Kevin Murphy (of Slow Moving Clouds), this series is about how people and culture have shaped nature in Ireland and how we must now examine these relationships in order to meet the environmental challenges we are facing.
Episode 1 ‘After the Ice’ reveals the succession of plants and animals who lived in the post-glacial Ireland, including woolly mammoths, brown bears, and new discoveries about the first humans to arrive to this island. We explore the lifestyle and culture of the hunter gatherers who lived here for 4000 years, and what we know of their connections with wild nature. The programme ends with the arrival of a new culture with the first farmers heralding a turning point in our changing relationship with nature in Ireland.
Original score by Kevin Murphy of Slow Moving Clouds.
Producer: Anja Murray
Presenter: Anja Murray
Researcher: Lenny Antonelli
Original Score: Kevin Murphy
Editing and sound design: Julien Clancy
Producer for RTÉ lyric fm: Eoin O Kelly
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 12th September, 6pm-7pm