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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FURTHER READING
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Along with Climate Majority Project, we are trying to raise money to embed Climate Education into schools, and build a ‘Discussion Guide’ resource that people can use to help us all talk about the weather.
OUR PARTNER LINKS
ADDITIONAL LINKS
West Acre Rewilding ProjectExploitation in Industrial Farming
IT’S TIME TO REALLY TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER
This project as been developed with young farmers and colleges in rural Norfolk. Questioning why it’s so hard for us to have meaningful conversations about climate change and the cost of british small talk.
We aim to empower people to speak about the climate and support a campaign to embed climate education in the national curriculum.
Our aim is for audiences to really talk about the weather. Alongside our film and boom, we plan to share:
- Conversation starters for teachers to use in lessons
- Advice on supporting children with climate anxiety
- Link to campaigns and petitions to embed climate change in the national curriculum.
Through the film and these materials, we hope our film can inspire audience members to transform their small talk into change.
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
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 and featured on BBC Introducing, Emma-Louise Howell, this is a striking interrogation of how we tell climate stories in post-Covid Britain.
FILM COMING SOON...
We partnered with Michael Sheen and farmers in
West Acre, Norfolk to celebrate the launch of You Told Us To Talk About the Weather.
5 MINS / 2026 / English / UK
THE TEAM
Emma-Louise Howell - Writer
Emma-Louise Howell is an award-winning playwright from East Anglia. She trained at RADA where she was awarded the Michael Ross Prize and has since been shortlisted for the Theatre503 International Playwriting Prize, The Stage Innovation Award, Women in Theatre Lab, Off-West End Adopt a Playwright Prize and ITV Original Voices. You Told Us To Talk About the Weather is her debut poetry pamphlet.Harry is an award winning Director originally from Brighton. His recent projects include short film Heel Drop, in partnership with SOMESUCH, and creative direction for global fashion brand UOOYAA. He has also directed successful music videos for many artists such as Evi, Kat Penkin and Dutch Crminal Record. Harry’s debut feature A Fluorescent Sky, found festival success and is now available on Prime Video.