Understand, Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement, 3. The Ecologist

Understand

Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement

3. The Ecologist

1 July 2026

Available for over a year

It’s the 1990s - and in a tiny office in Charing Cross, a group of big thinkers is publishing some radical ideas…and about to have a very public falling out.

This is the story of an influential green magazine and the man who created it: Teddy Goldsmith. He believed the cause was so grave it stood outside of left-right politics. Not everyone agreed.

Presenter: Justin Rowlatt

Producer: Rachel Naylor

Series Producer: Ellie House

Editor: Matt Willis

Sound Design and Mix: James Beard

Production Coordinators: Maria Ogundele, Brenda Brown, Sabine Schereck

Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke

Archive:

Margaret Thatcher speech to the United Nations General Assembly, C-SPAN, 8/11/1989