Published by The Conversation, Fear & Wonder is a documentary podcast that takes you inside the UN’s era-defining climate report, via the hearts and minds of the scientists from all around the world who wrote it.

I made this show because I happened to visit my friend and co-host Dr Joëlle Gergis – a climate scientist – the day after my in-laws’ house burned down in Australia’s terrifying Black Summer bushfires. She was in the thick of her work on the IPCC’s latest monumental report. I realised that I had no idea how we know what we know about climate change. And I wanted to find out.

In this seven-part series, I speak to scientists from 14 different countries about their science, how they do what they do, and what it feels like to carry that knowledge. We trace the work behind these extraordinary reports as the years pass and climate disasters befall almost everyone involved.

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Imran fled violence in Myanmar – now he is in detention on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, with no papers and no idea what will happen to him. A documentary for BBC World Service.  

Hosted by Academy Award-winning documentary film-maker Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna, Diego Maradona), this is the fourth episode in a five-part series from BBC World Service in collaboration with Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. Detours takes us off the main roads of our lives, following people who didn’t end up where they expected.

Producer: Elyse Blennerhassett and Michael Green

Listen now via BBC, 27 minutes.

Abdul Aziz Muhamat is a young man from Darfur, in western Sudan. He’s been held in Australian immigration detention on Manus Island since 2013. But this is February 2019 and Aziz is allowed to fly to Geneva, Switzerland—for two weeks.

His reason for going is to accept the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. It is a big night. His acceptance speech, Mandela like. But, the morning after is a different more complicated story.

Aziz is speaking to all the right people, making his case for himself and his friends back on Manus. They are listening. He is not sure, however, if they can do anything. He is also not sure what he should do. Should he stay or should he go?

A documentary for ABC Radio National, Earshot. Part two of a two-part series, along with Flight from Manus. Listen now, via ABC, 28 minutes.

Supervising Producer Lyn Gallacher, sound engineer Melissa May. Music composed by Hour House (Mark Leacy and Sam Kenna)