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YOU TOLD US TO TALK
ABOUT THE WEATHER
So why is it so hard to speak about the climate crisis?
Through poems, satire and interviews with climate activists across the UK, You Told Us To Talk About The Weather unpacks our national obsession with small talk and asks how we can use creativity to transform these conversations into meaningful change.
Written by multi-award winning playwright, Emma-Louise Howell and featured on BBC Introducing, this is a striking interrogation of how we tell climate stories in post-Covid Britain.
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In the past 6 hours, 94% of Brits have spoken about the weather.
In the past 5 years, 7000 Brits have been arrested for speaking out about the climate crisis.
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IT’S TIME TO REALLY TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER
Told through the eyes of a child grappling with climate anxiety, this film questions why it is so hard for us to have meaningful conversations about climate change and how we elevate our small talk into a tool for meaningful change.
We are proud to be working with project partners, the Climate Majority Project and their Climate Courage Schools campaign, to call for educators to be better supported in delivering the climate education young people deserve and provide free-to-access resources and conversation guidelines for parents, teachers and students across the UK.
CREATORS’ STATEMENT
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As a farmer’s daughter from Norfolk, You Told Us To Talk About the Weather is some of the most intensely personal work I’ve created. Over the past 5 years, I’ve worked with farmers and young people across Norfolk and Lincolnshire to explore and understand the impact of climate change has on agricultural settings. What I’ve seen and learned has not only brought me closer to my homeland but it’s highlighted that farming has been unfairly sidelined from a great number of climate conversations. Discussions of oil, plastic and pollution draw our attention to urban, industrialised areas but why aren’t we looking at the rural? Why aren’t we fighting for the people and jobs whose livelihood literally depends on the weather, soil and plants? Our lives and access to food relies on farmland but if we keep ignoring it, we’re facing a real threat of only having 60 viable harvests left in England. So I wrote this to combat that imbalance and to try to get people to really talk about the weather”
Emma-Louise Howell - Writer
You Told Us to Talk About the Weather / 5 MINS / 2026 / English / UK
This is an urgent new film series exploring why it’s so hard to speak openly about the climate. Based on a poetry series by multi-award-winning playwright Emma-Louise Howell, directed by Harry Tomlin, and starring Olivier & BAFTA-nominated actor Michael Sheen, the film is created in partnership with Duna Studios and Climate Majority Project’s Climate Courage Schools campaign.