Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,BBC naturalist Chris Packham has openly requested a guest role on the fictional soap EastEnders so he can turn the nation's most-watched entertainment show into a vehicle for climate crisis messaging. In comments reported by GB News and drawn from a Radio Times interview, the veteran naturalist described his fantasy appearance: an environmental disaster such as a flood hitting the fictional London borough, followed by him marching through as himself with a placard to lecture the locals.Packham told Radio Times he wants the role because it "would give me the capacity to communicate to an audience which I don't talk to in my sphere of work."Chris Packham makes request for BBC EastEnders role to spread awareness of climate crisishttps://t.co/EGpYTlGvjp
— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 22, 2026He complained that while some people understand the "scale of the crisis," broader media fails at "truth telling" to "bring it home to everyone.""The trouble is, I keep popping that bubble and looking outside, and I see that other people are not aware of the gravity of that crisis, or some of them are still in the position where actually they're denying ... and that's really scary," he said.He called for the messaging to be "integrated into broader output, so properly into news obviously, properly into weather where we talk about climate as well as weather - but also into dramas."? Chris Packham urges Barclays customers to set themselves on fire pic.twitter.com/0PtNRFqg7l
