Tune in to hear from Sky Kids’ Lucy Murphy and Plimsoll Productions’ Tom Hugh-Jones

Today we hear from Sky Kids’ Lucy Murphy about new documentary COP26: In Your Hands, while Plimsoll Productions’ Tom Hugh-Jones tackles the contradiction of addressing climate change while flying production crews around the world.

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COP26: In Your Hands is a 30-minute documentary produced by Fresh Start Media for Sky Kids. In the show, six young climate activists from six different continents deliver a powerful message about how climate change is already having an impact on their lives.

The documentary premiered on Sky Kids and Sky’s streaming platform Now on Monday, ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference at the end of this month. Sky Kids director of content Lucy Murphy spoke to Karolina Kaminska about the programme and its role in delivering a call to action.

Meanwhile, so many of the stereotypes of natural history filmmaking would seem to make it TV’s ideal genre amid the pandemic – small crews in the world’s remotest locations, far away from centres of infection.

However, before Covid-19 hit, the genre was already grappling with the contradiction of spreading the climate emergency message while flying people and kit around in jets.

Tom Hugh-Jones, creative director for natural history at UK- and US-based Plimsoll Productions, spoke to Clive Whittingham about overcoming these challenges and explained how Covid has in fact fast-tracked some of the work being done in TV to improve diversity and reduce carbon footprints.

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