Do public service broadcasters need to take a more proactive role in climate storytelling? Does celebrity involvement help or hinder activism? And should we be calling it a climate catastrophe? Our multidisciplinary panel of programme-makers, academics and activists share their experiences in crafting impactful narratives through documentaries and dramas; effective disaster communication, and the struggle for hopeful climate stories in the face of political apathy.
Based on a True Story: How to Tell the Climate Crisis Narrative was recorded at the Edinburgh TV Festival in August 2022. The speakers are Fehinti Balogun, Actor, Theatre-maker, Activist; Professor Lucy Easthope, Professor in Practice and Co-Founder, After Disaster Network, University of Durham; Stephen Garrett, Executive Chairman, Character 7, Craig Hunter, Creative Director, Factual at STV Studios; Thimali Kodikara, Series producer of the Mothers of Invention climate podcast. The host is Dan McDougall. [All job titles correct at time of Festival]
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