Tom Heap | Land Smart

Sun 27 Apr 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Tom Heap
Tom Heap book

Tom Heap, renowned environmental journalist and presenter of BBC’s Countryfile, Radio 4’s Rare Earth, and Sky News’ The Climate Show, has spent his career exploring the challenges facing our planet. Now, in his latest book, Land Smart, he tackles one of the most urgent questions of our time: how can we use land more sustainably to meet humanity’s growing needs without stealing more from nature?

We rely on land for food, energy, carbon storage, and housing, but centuries of unchecked expansion have led to extinction, pollution, and environmental collapse. With no more land left to take, we must learn to do more with less, or risk devastating consequences.

In Land Smart, Heap travels the British countryside, meeting farmers, scientists, conservationists, and even warehouse managers who are pioneering solutions to these pressing challenges. Their innovations reveal a better way forward—one where both humanity and nature can thrive.

Join Tom Heap for a timely and inspiring discussion on how smart land use can shape a more sustainable future for all.

Venue: Palmerston Room

Duration: 1 hour

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6pm | 27 April | Palmerston Room at St John's
£17
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6pm | 27 April | Palmerston Room at St John's
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Author Biography

Tom Heap is a regular presenter on BBC1’s Countryfile, specializing in the more investigative films, and has made many BBC Panorama documentaries on food, energy and the environment. Tom is also the presenter of Radio 4’s new Rare Earth series and was the anchor of The Climate Show on Sky News. He was the creator and presenter of BBC Radio’s flagship climate change podcast ’39 Ways to Save the Planet’.

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