My Transcript Box
This site has some transcripts, mostly of audio and video segments, which have been available for listening to and/or watching on the internet, also transcripts of scanned text. I am indexing these transcripts by source, by person and by date.
By date - transcripts from previous years:
2021
Sep 22: ITV: Liam Norton: "We're right! We're right!"
Apr 27: ITV: "So is it time that we give up our pets in order to save our planet?"
Apr 22: HMG: Boris Johnson: "Nothing wrong with ‘bunny hugging’ but you know what I’m driving at"
2020
Feb 04: HMG: Boris Johnson on CO2: "our entire planet is swaddled in a great tea cosy of the stuff..."
Jan 25: Climate Assembly UK: Climate Assembly UK, Weekend 1: Panel 1
2019
Dec 28: BBC Radio 4: Matt Ridley: "we should be careful not to overreact and not to shut down civilisation"
Dec 22: CNN: David Remnick on Donald Trump's impeachment: "it's about the future of the Earth"
Dec 13: The Sun: Greta Thunberg on world leaders: "We will make sure... that we put them against the wall"
Dec 10: Rowan Institute: Sarah Myhre: "climate leadership" threatened by "white male power", "toxic masculinity"...
Dec 05: XR: Emma Thompson: "there's a surprising amount of protein in the average household pet"
Nov 14: BBC4: Climategate: Science of a Scandal
Sep 23: Rev.com: Greta Thunberg: "How dare you!"
Oct 09: BBC2: Andrew Neil: "I see no reference to billions of people going to die"
Aug 17: BBC News: Roger Hallam: "... slaughter, death and starvation of six billion people this century"
Jun 11: BBC Radio 4: John Bell: "Such decisions are... a feature of responsible living"
May 15: BBC Radio 4: Costing the Earth: Eco-Anxiety
May 12: BBC1: Nigel Farage: UK climate policy "isn't terribly intelligent"
Apr 28: BBC Radio 4: More or Less: Insectageddon
Apr 23: The Guardian: Greta Thunberg: "Now we probably don't even have a future any more"
Apr 18: BBC1: Climate Change - The Facts
Apr 17: Sky News: Boardman-Pattinson: "We would only use air travel in emergencies"
Apr 16: ITV: Gail Bradbrook: "I've two boys... and they won't have enough food to eat in a few years' time"
Apr 12: BBC Radio 4: David Shukman: "I think we're slightly allergic to campaigns"
Apr 04: BBC Look North: "If we want to keep the lights on, we should be investing in wind and solar"
Mar 20: BBC: Tony Hall: "For the BBC, impartiality is one of our most precious assets"
Feb 15: BBC Radio 4: More or Less: Climate Change
Feb 12: BBC Radio 4:"... it needs to be a large-scale transformation in how our societies and economies work"
Jan 27: University of Auckland: Boyd Swinburn: global syndemic is "the paramount challenge for the 21st century"
Jan 26: BBC Radio 4: Vishvapani: Greta Thunberg "is admirably impatient"
Jan 25: The Guardian: Greta Thunberg: "I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear..."
2018
Dec 27: BBC Radio 4: Mary Robinson: climate change a "man-made problem and requires a feminist solution"
Dec 27: BBC Radio 4: Giles Fraser: Climate change and "the warning of Watership Down"
Dec 15: BBC Radio 4: Lord Deben: "Britain is leading but we're going to have to be very much tougher"
Nov 26: DEFRA: Michael Gove: "the planet and its weather patterns are changing before our eyes"
Nov 02: Channel 4 News: Extreme weather: "the UK is in a race against time to adapt"
Oct 24: BBC Radio 4: Guy Singh-Watson: "Plastic is not in itself an evil material"
Oct 16: BBC News: African penguin habitat "hit by rising tides caused by climate change"
Oct 14: BBC1: Coverage of IPCC report in Sunday papers: only "One story, page 6 of the Observer"...
Oct 12: BBC News: Samira Ahmed: "should the BBC be giving climate change deniers any air time any more?"
Oct 12: BBC Radio 4: BBC climate coverage: "no deniers anywhere, on radio at least"
Oct 09: Democracy Now!: Kevin Anderson: "this is a different planet from the one in which we live"
Oct 08: BBC Newsnight: Evan Davis: "is it possible to get the planet to align around the latest science?"
Oct 06: BBC Radio 4: Vishvapani: "IPCC’s proposals mean changing how our societies work"
Aug 07: BBC Radio 4: Rockström: we're "hitting the ceiling of the bio-physical limits of a stable planet"
Jul 26: BBC News: Temperature rise "probably about 4 degrees by the end of this century"
Jul 24: Channel 4 News: 2003 heatwave is expected to "become a normal summer by 2040"
Jun 28: BBC Radio 4: Deben: future generations to pay more for the "low-carbon, no-carbon society we need"
May 11: BBC Radio 4: Vishvapani: we "need compelling images of a sustainable society"
May 03: BBC Radio 4: Attenborough: Kew Gardens can help prevent "plantless desert" caused by climate change
Apr 24: Westminster: James Heappey: people must reduce consumption of "meat, milk, cheese and everything else"
2017
Oct 26: BBC Radio 4: Ed Davey: costs of climate change "dramatically more" than costs of green energy
Oct 23: BBC2: Anthony Frew on London air pollution: "I really don't think there is a health crisis here"
Aug 18: BBC Radio 4: "So was the BBC right to invite former Chancellor Nigel Lawson...", etc.
Aug 13: BBC Radio 4: Jim Al-Khalili: "The fact is, scientists want to change the consensus"
Aug 11: BBC Radio 4: Peter Stott: "We are indeed seeing more extreme weather..."
Aug 10: LBC: Al Gore: "shocking how the BBC has engaged in climate denial"
Aug 10: BBC Radio 4: Lord Lawson on Al Gore's new movie: "it's the same old claptrap"
Aug 05: Channel 4 News: Channel 4 News asks how to avert "apocalyptic prediction"
Jul 24: BBC World Service: Pen Hadow: "... or are we just here for a laugh?"
Jun 02: BBC Radio 4: Roger Helmer: Paris Agreement "a vast misallocation of resources"
May 28: BBC Radio 4: Roger Harrabin: "The old consensus on climate change has been rattled..."
Apr 23: BBC1: Rupert Read: climate change denial "amounts to kicking our children in the teeth"
Mar 24: The Lancet: Richard Horton: "We are trying to change the consciousness of a generation..."
Feb 22: MSNBC: Mika Brzezinski on controlling what people think: "... that's our job"
Jan 30: BBC Radio 4: Steve Holliday: "The new world is about being flexible on demand"
Jan 02: BBC Radio 4: The New World: Nothing but the Truth
2016
Dec 08: BBC Radio 4: Justin Webb: "97% of the world's climate scientists..."
Nov 30: News Xchange: Farage: media is "completely out of touch" on climate change
Nov 24: BBC Radio 4: Sea ice now in Antarctica not "hugely different" to ice in days of Scott
Nov 18: BBC Radio 4: France "facing the real prospect of power cuts, this winter"
Oct 12: BBC Radio 4: Josh Fox: "this is oil and gas contamination of the dialogue"
Sep 23: BBC Radio 4: BBC should be "better and braver" at providing guidance
Sep 10: BBC World Service: Matt McGrath: "the world is full of very many dangers..."
Sep 06: BBC2: Caroline Lucas on air pollution as a racist issue
Sep 02: BBC Radio 4: John Humphrys on Tambora: 0.7 degree temperature drop "not a huge amount"
Aug 31: BBC Radio 4: Roger Harrabin: "Some people will look at this and think it's a bit of a scam"
Aug 30: BBC Radio 4: Peter Wadhams: computer models are "very, very wrong" about Arctic ice
Jul 22: U.S. State Department: Kerry: fighting climate change "of equal importance" to fighting terrorism
Jul 20: BBC News: "... we're scarily close to dangerous levels of climate change"
Jul 17: BBC Radio Lincolnshire: Bishop of Lincoln travels to Fiji, to "reflect on climate change"
Jul 12: BBC Radio 4: Lord Krebs: "climate models suggest that flooding is going to increase..."
Jul 03: BBC Radio 4: Brexit and Food: A Food Programme Special
Jun 21: EAT Foundation: Stordalen: food "at the heart of the environmental catastrophe facing the planet"
Jun 03: Sky News: Michael Gove on experts from "organisations with acronyms"
Mar 04: BBC Radio 4: "... they're telling us we must use electricity differently"
Feb 23: BBC Radio 4: Climate change a distraction from threat of air pollution
Feb 15: RealClear Radio Hour: Richard Lindzen on CAGW: "it was the narrative from the beginning"
Feb 02: 2GB: Alan Jones and Craig Kelly discuss Tim Flannery
Jan 28: LBC: Jon Ronson about Tim Hunt: "And he contemplated suicide."