Lucy Hough

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3,855 appearances 82 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

Lucy Hough’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Today in Focus · ‘Apocalyptic’ El Niño to unleash extreme weather - The Latest · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

Damien Gale, you're our environment correspondent. voice-verified

What's been the warning from the UN and how serious is it? voice-verified

Yeah, this monster El Nino, the type of which we haven't seen in a thousand years. voice-verified

I mean, it's very, very dangerous. voice-verified

It's a very, very dangerous warning. voice-verified

To go back to basics a little bit, what is an El Nino and what's the difference between an El Nino and a super El Nino? voice-verified

So what does that actually look like? voice-verified

Because it sounds like you're talking about extreme weather in quite literally all its forms in different parts of the world. voice-verified

But I mean, as you describe that, you just think of agriculture, don't you? voice-verified

And the impact on food production and supply systems around the world. voice-verified

I mean, the UN has explicitly warned of a hunger crisis that could come from this because of that. voice-verified

Man, 2027 is not sparking joy from the picture you're painting, Damien. voice-verified

I mean, obviously, we talked about extreme heat, which is something that we've experienced a lot of here in the UK this summer. voice-verified

It's felt like there's been back to back heat waves, you know, temperatures in excess of 38 degrees in cities that just aren't equipped to deal with it. voice-verified

And we've voice-verified

learnt about the number of excess deaths in Europe as a result of those heat waves, which I think sort of gives us a bit of a sense of a precursor of what we could see next year. voice-verified

Yeah, which is obviously countries with higher GDPs and wealthier nations that can afford to put these mitigations in place. voice-verified

But it feels, Damien, like the kind of extremity of the language is deliberate from the United Nations and from climate experts about the voice-verified

supersized nature of this El Nino, that it's going to be this kind of Godzilla weather event, is deliberate to push governments into taking action to prepare for this rather than to react to it when the worst of its impacts hit next year. voice-verified

Yeah, yeah. voice-verified

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