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Hosts Stephanie O'Rourke and Kate Rudy explore the past, present, and future of Scotland’s landscape, and especially the famous rock formations at Glen Tilt in central Scotland. Through interviews with artists, historians, and scientists, we chart a path through the unique topography of Scotland from the eighteenth century and into our climate’s future.

1. Dr James Rae and Prof Tony Prave – geologists – Scotland’s geological past and potential climate futures 
2. Dr John Bonehill – art historian – picturing the Scottish landscape in the 18th century 
3. Dr Allison Ksiazkiewicz – artist and historian of science – the science of the Scottish landscape in the 18th century 
4. Prof Ralph O’Connor – literary historian – narrating Scotland’s geological past in the 19th century 
5. Ilana Halperin – artist – memory and materiality in the Scottish landscape 
6. Prof Geoffrey Boutlon – geologist – Scotland and the climate crisis

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Through interviews with scientists, a curator, and scholars of art and literature, we consider how people in the past used to understand and to shape Ireland's forests and coasts. And we also discuss how Ireland's landscape might continue to change in the decades to come. 

Sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Fellowship.

1. Robert Devoy - climate scientist - Ireland's coastal futures
2. Michael Waldron – curator – picturing Ireland's costs, then and now
3. Finola O'Kane – historian of landscape design - the colonial connections of Irish landscape infrastructure 
4. Diarmuid - climate scientist and forester - Ireland's forests in a changing climate
5. Anna Pilz - literary scholar - literary representations of Ireland's woods

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