All Episodes
Working: What We Do All Day featuring Barack Obama
Millions of us work for a living. How many of us, though, ask ourselves ‘what does this work mean? In Working: What We Do All Day, former US President Barack Obama speaks to people from three different industries – technology, hospitality, and home care – to find out what they think. Obama also explores changing work patterns, driven, for example, by AI, and their consequences. Director Caroline Suh joins Matthew Sherwood to discuss the making of Working: What We Do All Day, how they have approached jobs in the past, how President Obama became involved in the series, and even the famous illustrator, Richard Scarry!
32 Sounds: Exploring the Most Mysterious and Profound of the Senses
32 Sounds is both an exploration and meditation. In it, inspired by a conversation with composer Annea Lockwood, Sam Green goes on a journey that takes him from nature to film studios, the purring of cats to silence. Sound, he tells Matthew Sherwood, is mysterious and even ephemeral, but listening to it can be both intensely pleasurable and even ground you as a person. All the senses are wonderful. Sound, though, is a wonder. Listen, and find out why.
Reimagine Wildfire: An Elemental Threat That We Can Control
The world is getting hotter and fires more destructive. In Elemental, Trip Jennings explores how a wildfire destroyed the Californian town of Paradise in just a matter of hours. With the help of experts, Native Americans, and more he goes on a journey to understand how fires happen, and what we can do to stop them. For, as he tells Matthew Sherwood, fire presents a problem that can, in some cases, be solved by each one of us in as little as a weekend. All we have to do is decide to take action.