Life Without

Hosted by Alan Davies, Life Without looks at what would happen to our planet if we removed one thing. Could pulling a single thread from our world really unravel the whole thing?

Radio 4,11 episodes

Episodes

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Life Without North America
What would happen to the world if the USA disappears?
17 Apr 2026,14 mins
Life Without Standard Time
Spring Forward, Fall Back or what if we just didn’t?
10 Apr 2026,14 mins
Life Without Sleep
We all know the importance of sleep, but what happens if we literally can’t?
03 Apr 2026,14 mins
Life Without Writing
How many of us even use a pen these days and what if we never picked one up ever again?
27 Mar 2026,15 mins
Life Without Sex
Gen Z are famously having less of it. Do we even need it all?
20 Mar 2026,15 mins
Life Without Bees
No more buzzing, no more honey, no more bees – so then what?
13 Mar 2026,14 mins
Life Without Salt
A low salt diet is one thing, but a no salt life?
06 Mar 2026,14 mins
Life Without Worms
They wriggle and writhe in the earth beneath us, surely, we’d be fine if they vanished?
27 Feb 2026,15 mins
Life Without Rats
Surely a world without the rodents we look to exterminate anyway would be fine?
20 Feb 2026,14 mins
Life Without the Moon
Full moon, half-moon, total eclipse. What happens when we look up and the moon is missing?
13 Feb 2026,14 mins
Introducing... Life Without
Alan Davies hosts a thought experiment: will removing one thing from our world destroy it?
06 Feb 2026,2 mins