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In 2016-7, Ian McDonald tells one epic tale - the backstory to today's vegetarian and vegan movements. From the Ganges delta to the hills of New England, from the iron age to the present day...
How does animal exploitation increase the emergence of new diseases? With the world fighting a vicious new pandemic, Ian asks a front-line p...
How has western vegetarianism risen, within living memory, from fringe to mainstream choice? And how has veganism gone from nowhere to every...
In the nineteenth century, in America and Germany, new forms of vegetarianism emerge – from the individualistic consumer vegetarianism of Am...
In the late nineteenth century, the new vegetarian movement is intertwined with other struggles – including Victorian reformers, the Indian...
In the 1800s, overlapping circles of utopians, mystics, and romantics in both Europe and America develop arguments against meat until “veget...
The philosophers of Paris discuss reports of Indian vegetarianism, question the morality of eating animals, and inspire radicals who preach...
When printing lets ordinary people access a world of ideas, including Indian vegetarianism, some European radicals and diet gurus begin to o...
Ancient philosophers inspire Renaissance thinkers to challenge the old hierarchy of man over beast. Episode 9: Renaissance Old medieval cert...
When conquerors who profess Islam or Christianity rule over Indian vegetarians, the conversations about food ethics go both ways. Episode 8:...
In the Middle Ages, three very different monastic orders spread from the Mediterranean to the South China Sea, surrounding themselves with l...
In the first millennium CE, Indian vegetarianism advances from an ascetic fringe to a mainstream high-status lifestyle. Episode 6: Hinduism...
As the British public make their biggest decision in a generation, Ian asks Kerry McCarthy MP about the potential impact of Brexit on animal...
In the eastern Roman Empire, several faiths and philosophies agree on one thing; that you need to eschew flesh to live a life of the spirit....
In the largest ancient Indian empire, at the height of its power, its Buddhist king advocates for animals in his edicts, and tries to change...
In Ancient Greece, vegetarianism belongs to a secretive subculture – amongst the mystery religions of Orpheus and the musical mathemat...
Ian travels to the tree where the Buddha is said to have achieved enlightenment, and explores the paradox of his early followers’ atti...
In the Ganges plain in Northen India in the middle of the first millennium BCE, the idea of “ahimsa” – non violence – emerges. Episode 1: Ah...
Digital Vegans: The Tab As the internet transforms the media landscape, how can vegan organisations and businesses survive and thrive? In th...
Palm oil is everywhere - from cooking oil to soap to vegan margarine. Equatorial rainforest and peatland are cleared and replaced with serri...
From Jonathan Swift's talking horses to Star Trek's Vulcans, and from HG Wells to Doctor Who, science fiction has tackled the big questions...
Erin Red joins Ian McDonald as they investigate what vegans should feed cats, respond to listener comments, and discuss the ethical conflict...
Three experienced veterinarians with experience of vegan cats say whether and why they think cats can thrive on a vegan diet. Jean Hovfe arg...
Rough edits of extended interviews - such as this one with Dr Julia Minson - will now go into the podcast feed (used by iTunes and Stitcher)...
Ian travels through South East Asia from equatorial island to the far north of Thailand, discovering the vegetarian threads running through...
What is "judgement"? How does it really affect the relationships between vegans and others? What can scientists say about it? And how do veg...
London Olympics: Closing Update As the athletes celebrate their victories and defeats, and the Spice Girls rock the closing ceremony, we loo...
Kara Lang holds the record as the youngest woman ever to score a goal in international soccer - but her passions also include vegan cupcakes...
Athletes from across the world are coming to East London - where we produce the show - but what are the vegan perspectives on the Olympic ga...
How do they make vegan cheese that stretches and melts? Why is cheese such a challenge for new vegans? Can Ian convince anyone who makes che...
We took the show on the road to VegfestUK to find out how vegan parents met the challenges of raising children vegan in a non-vegan world -...
What is it like to grow up vegan in a non-vegan world? We hear three stories of vegan childhood: Rosemary- appeared as a baby on a BBC progr...
A future with cheap lab meat could be drastically different - for humans and animals. How would it work? And is the development of this tech...
A thousand years ago, Al-Ma'arri was writing Arabic poems of extreme complexity, promoting a rational ideal and most remarkably, making an e...
How has the digital revolution changed being vegan? We talk to Eric Brent, founder of leading vegetarian restaurant finder Happy Cow. Diana...
This season of peace and goodwill, in our special Christmas show, we ask whether there will ever be peace on Earth. Steven Pinker, author of...
At the end of our last episode, Kerry McCarthy MP said she'd asked for a debate in Parliament to mark World Vegan Day. She was successful, a...
The three vegan Members of the British Parliament (MPs) answer your questions. Are they afraid about how voters will react to their veganism...
We profile the handful of people who combine veganism with politics at their country's national level. I went to the UK Parliament to meet B...
We start our show at the beginning - when folk choose the vegan option. In this case, for a month, challenged and supported by London Vegan...
This is a small introductory snippet to let folk who get our podcast in iTunes or other podcast readers check that it’s working –...