The People Vs Climate Change

Holding up a mirror to our relationship with climate change

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Broadcast on BBC2; Available now on iPlayer

An intimate documentary holding up a mirror to our relationship with climate change. With exclusive access to the first ever Climate Assembly UK, this film bears witness to the debates and the solutions surrounding the greatest challenge of our time. The Assembly is a microcosm of Britain in a room: 110 people chosen at random to represent the precise demographic make-up of the nation. These are ordinary Brits, with families, jobs, worries, dreams – and opinions. Here, a new kind of democracy is at play, where reasonable discussion among citizens is used to inform political decisions on an issue that deeply affects all of our lives. Can it help us move beyond tribal divisions and set Britain on a new transformative course? 

PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY HARRIET BIRD

EDITOR GARETH HEAL

COMPOSER TIM GOALEN

NARRATOR CAROL KIRKWOOD

POST PRODUCTION SPLICE

COLOURIST CONNOR O’NEILL

ONLINE EDITOR SOL COKER

DUBBING MIXER JACK LEWIS

ASSISTANT PRODUCERS WILL GRANT, MATHILDA HAY, ROWAN INGS, ALISHA PATEL

PRODUCTION MANAGERS LYKKE JORGENSEN & ELANOR LEE

PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATORS YASMIN HEIDARY-MILIC & LOUELLA PEARCE

HEADS OF PRODUCTION NICKY VARLEY & LAUREN KELLY

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS DOV FREEDMAN & CHARLIE RUSSELL

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS FOR PICTURE ZERO FERGUS HAYCOCK & STEVE SMITH

Supported by The Climate Story Lab