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The Forum: Being Cold

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The Forum: Ice Hut #530 by Richard Johnson (Joussard, Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, 2011)

28/11/2015 GMT

Being Cold

BBC World Service - The Forum, Being Cold

How weather affects a nation’s character

Does weather affects a nation’s character? We find out at Spur Festival, with Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, ecologist David Atkinson and photographer Richard Johnson.

Does the experience of coping with bitter cold affect the way people think and feel? And what happens to culture and identity when climate begins to change? To explore these questions the Forum this week comes from Canada, one of the world’s most northern countries, with some 40 % of it in the Arctic. Joining Bridget Kendall are Nobel-nominated Inuit activist and former International Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Arctic spatial ecologist David Atkinson and “Ice Huts” architectural photographer Richard Johnson. Recorded in the auditorium of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, as part of the Spur Festival of Ideas.

(Photo: Ice Hut #530 by Richard Johnson. Joussard, Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, 2011)

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