Ralph Steadman, Ceri Levy and climate change poems – books podcast

We join Ralph Steadman in his studio as he teams up with Ceri Levy to put birds threatened with extinction in the frame, and hear how poets are responding to climate chaos

This week's books podcast heads to rural Kent on the trail of the artist Ralph Steadman and the film-maker Ceri Levy, who are putting endangered birds under the lens with a collection of explosive portraits, Nextinction.

We hear what happened when Levy teamed up with Steadman to chart the forces pushing birds to the brink of extinction all over the world, how the artist finds birds both real and imaginary in splats of ink, and why doom is not enough.

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