S8:E32 Joel O'Connor Chats with Julia Chiapella

What transforms a grasshopper into part of a rapacious horde? Poet, essayist, playwright and activist Joel O'Connor uses his most recent work, Locust, as a bridge between science and politics, between our nature as humans and the world around us. Like a true scientist, he hypothesizes. Listen to this interview and be transported to an Australia that exists beneath and alongside the contemporary culture, a place of regard and humility in the face of all that threatens the natural world.