BBC Radio Podcasts from Life Without

Life Without North America

What would happen to the world if the USA disappears?

Spring Forward, Fall Back or what if we just didn’t?

We all know the importance of sleep, but what happens if we literally can’t?

How many of us even use a pen these days and what if we never picked one up ever again?

Gen Z are famously having less of it. Do we even need it all?

No more buzzing, no more honey, no more bees – so then what?

A low salt diet is one thing, but a no salt life?

They wriggle and writhe in the earth beneath us, surely, we’d be fine if they vanished?

Surely a world without the rodents we look to exterminate anyway would be fine?

Full moon, half-moon, total eclipse. What happens when we look up and the moon is missing?

Alan Davies hosts a thought experiment: will removing one thing from our world destroy it?