Podcasts and Radio
Trend Following with Michael Covel
Michael Covel with Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay discuss their new book, Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars, touching upon the social and environmental impact of cars, urban design and car-centric infrastructure, alternatives to car ownership, public transport safety and social issues, and cultural attitudes toward community and individualism.
Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and iHeartRadio.
The British Academy
Campus Talks: Unlocking people power through citizen science
This episode of the Campus podcast explores the growing field of citizen science, which goes by many labels including participatory research, civic science and non-academic research. Whatever your preferred terminology, the basis of all this work is the involvement of non-academic participants. Sarah and Miranda speak to three strong proponents of this approach to research who explain how and why it can be such a powerful way to unlock knowledge and seek innovative solutions.
Read Henrietta’s resource that provided the inspiration for this podcast, “Unlocking knowledge within local communities as part of ‘levelling up’”.
July 2019
BBC World Service
The Compass: My Perfect Country
My Perfect Country brings together broadcaster Fi Glover, digital entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox, and Prof. Henrietta Moore to imagine an ideal nation built from the world’s most effective policies. For 3 series, it sought to build the perfect country. Inspired by positive thinking, it takes policies from around the world that actually work and have solved global problems. They ask why they work, and whether they could work anywhere. Out of this comes a forensic analysis of what good global policy should look like.
It explores innovative solutions to global challenges - from women’s sanitation in India, to sustainable fishing in Canada, disaster preparedness in Cuba, refugee integration in Germany, gender equality in Rwanda, maternal healthcare in Nepal, and prison reform in Norway. Through expert insights, local voices, and real-life testimonies, the hosts weigh the successes and shortcomings of these policies and ask whether they could be adapted elsewhere. Audience members also contribute their own experiences and ideas, helping to shape a collective vision of what a truly “perfect country” might look like.
All 22 episodes are available on the BBC, here.
BBC Radio 4
The devastating effect of cars in our cities with Henrietta L. Moore and Arthur Kay
Co-hosts Oli Lowrie and Jon Ackroyd sit down with Prof. Dame Henrietta L. Moore and Arthur Kay. Together they discuss their book Roadkill, which explores the urgent need to rethink our car-dominated cities. From the myths and politics surrounding 15-minute cities to the promises and risks of autonomous vehicles, this conversation challenges us to ask: what kind of urban future do we really want?
Sept 2025
We are Not Doomed: Rethinking Our Toxic Relationships with Cars
The Bartlett Review with Prof. Dame Henrietta Moore & Arthur Kay
The Bartlett Review podcast shares new ideas and disruptive thinking for the built environment, brought to you by The Bartlett Facult for the Built Environment at University College London.
In this special episode to mark the launch of their new book, Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars, Professor Dame Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay discuss the philosophical implications of car culture, as well as the practical impacts it has on your money, your taxes, your neighbourhood, your planet, your health, and your happiness.
Thinking Allowed: ‘New’ biological relatives and kinship
Thinking Allowed: Still Life
Is tradition under threat from capitalism, or are we overly negative about the cultural impact of globalisation? Henrietta Moore challenges what she sees as despair about the impact of international capitalism and new technology and claims that globalisation is just as likely to improve the human experience. She tells Laurie Taylor that her new theory about how we create culture, rejects the notion that it is ever 'imposed' from abroad.
Sept 2025
Thinking Allowed: Moral Relativism
Laurie Taylor is joined by Prof. Steven Lukes, author of a book on moral relativism, Henrietta Moore, Prof. of Social Anthropology at the Uni. of Cambridge and Prof. Conor Gearty, Prof. of Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics, to discuss relationship of culture and morality in the debate on a universal notion of human rights.
Sept 2025
Sept 2025
Jan 2019
The Compass: My Perfect Country
In May 2016, the BBC recorded a special episode of its award-winning radio programme, My Perfect Country, at a session of the United Nations in New York.
The episode included contributions by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and people who had instigated groundbreaking economic and social projects in India, Uganda, Estonia and Costa Rica, alongside its regular hosts - broadcaster and journalist Fi Glover, entrepreneur and philanthropist Martha Lane Fox, and Henrietta L. Moore.
The show's position on the World Service schedule meant it was already reaching millions of people around the world, but this placed it at the heart of the global conversation about social and economic policy as the UN began to implement its 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Thinking Allowed: Foie Gras and the politics of taste
Laurie Taylor talks to Michaela DeSoucey about the controversies that surround this luxury product. What makes us see some foods as 'wrong' and worthy of prohibition? They're joined by distinguished anthropologist, Henrietta Moore.
The Compass: My Perfect Country
In this one-off special, the My Perfect Country team travel to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where they join a group of bright, curious, switched-on students who use the past three series of My Perfect Country in their learning of global policy.
Listen to the Making a Difference episode on BBC Sounds, here.
BBC Radio 4
March 2015
BBC Radio 4
Episode 2573: The true cost of Roadkill
BBC Radio 4
Sept 2025
The Source with David Martin Davies
The Source is a daily, one-hour call-in talk program that gives listeners in San Antonio the opportunity to call and connect with in-studio guests and city-wide audience. Prof. Henrietta L. Moore and Arthur Kay discussed Roadkill and the hidden costs of car culture.
Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Texas Public Radio.