Strandings: In Conversation with Peter Riley

In Strandings: Confessions of a Whale Scavenger, and in this conversation, the fate of whales becomes a metaphor for our greed and continued disconnection to nature. Through stories of beached whales, unexpected community and a potted history of humans we begin to better understand our future.  Join Upstart Co-Founder Zoe Grams and Dr. Peter Riley for a discussion on “controlling the flight instinct” when we consider our late-stage capitalism reality; about whales and ideological purity (and its downfalls); about connection, environmentalism and cognitive living or death. It may not be at our in-studio Long Table, but here is a warm discussion of reality and possibility. Part of Upstart & Crow's Climate Series events. About StrandingsA genre-defying book of intellect, heart and page-turning anecdotes and philosophy, Strandings has received glowing reviews from across the UK and beyond. “It is at once incisive and funny, personal and historical, gripping and moving.” — Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life  About the Author  Dr. Peter Riley is a Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Exeter, and the inaugural winner of the Profile-Aitken Alexander Prize. He has an appropriate specialisation in Herman Melville, and has been investigating the world of the whale scavengers since his teens. He is currently working on three more books (editing one, writing two) and is making a radio documentary based on Strandings, which is due to air on BBC Radio 4 next year.