Pathways: A Possible Futures Podcast

Seven scientists have been assigned to Carbon Removal Outpost Alpha-3, deep in the Colombian mangroves. Seven scientists have died there.Darya Abtahi knows this. She requested the posting anyway.Told through recovered footage, daily logs and a bureaucratic investigation that nobody really wants to finish, The Devouring Forest is a story about grief, about the outposts humanity builds at the edge of the world - and about what the forest takes when you stop paying attention.The Devouring Forest is...Written by: Phoebe Yemi AraDirected by: Ben Weaver-HincksPerformed by:AUTOMATED ROBOTIC VOICE: Tigger BlaizeARTIFICIAL STORYTELLER: Emily SwaddleINVESTIGATOR: Alex GuoMATTIAS: Guy CokerDARYA: Jaasvi ShahPSYCHIATRIST: Lauren O’Hare BOATER: Paul CubidesThe Pathways anthology is…Produced by: Ben Weaver-HincksAssociate produced by: Emily SwaddleFunded by: CO2RE, The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub

Mari and Zaid live inside the city walls, scavenging the beach for anything worth selling - good-grade plastic, amber, metal they can trade. Outside the walls, they've always been told, the air will kill you.Then Zaid finds something in the sand. A device stamped with an outsider language. Old man Harun says it's the most important thing the children have ever touched. Mari says Harun is mad.Beachcombers is a story about what people are told to keep them in place - and what happens when a child picks up the wrong piece of the past.Beachcombers is...Written by: Amadeus Redha Directed by: Emily SwaddlePerformed by:MARI: Alex GuoZAID: Mazlum GulHARUN: Guy CokerThe Pathways anthology is…Produced by: Ben Weaver-HincksAssociate produced by: Emily SwaddleFunded by: CO2RE, The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub

On an island off the west coast of Scotland, a child is looking for their Grandda. He's been hearing things - a song, coming up from the water where the government's new algae tanks hum in the strait between the island and the mainland.The Song of Mhorra is a story about what we hear when the sea starts to change - and what some people are willing to believe.The Song of Mhorra is...Written by: Kerry RyanDirected by: Emily SwaddlePerformed by:BAIRN: Hâle Denholm MEG: Lauren O’HareGRANDDA: James TurnerThanks to Julie Fowlis, who lent us the song that appears in this episode: The Song of the Seal / Òran an RòinThe Pathways anthology is…Produced by: Ben Weaver-HincksAssociate produced by: Emily SwaddleFunded by: CO2RE, The Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub

Pathways is an anthology audio drama about the futures we build. Different stories, different possible worlds, each one shaped by a different vision of how humanity responded to the climate crisis.From a walled coastal city where children scavenge for contraband technology, to a Colombian mangrove where scientists disappear without explanation, to a Scottish island at the edge of the world.The technologies you'll hear about in these stories - direct air capture, rewilded forests, the chemistry of rock and soil - are real, and already running. But the science doesn't tell you who benefits, who pays, and what it actually feels like to live inside the result.