Michael Sheen and hosts Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor will attend the Sheffield DocFest 2024 to discuss and give the audience a first listen to the new series of the BBC Radio 4 environmental documentary podcast, set to premiere on June 24. The panel will take place on Friday June 14 at 3.30pm. You can book tickets here.
More details on the panel:
Podcast Live: The Last Witness with Michael Sheen
During this live event actor Michael Sheen and Buried: The Last Witness hosts Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor will offer the audience the opportunity to listen and discuss their upcoming series and findings, moderated by BBC Radio 4 commissioner Daniel Clarke.
In 1967, a young man saw something so disturbing in a farmer’s field that he vowed to pursue the truth. In the years that followed, he says he was derided in parliament and hounded into witness protection. What did he know? Buried: The Last Witness is the untold account of one of the world’s first-ever whistleblowers on forever chemicals. In this documentary environmental thriller, BBC Radio 4’s award-winning Buried hosts Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor team up with the actor Michael Sheen – who in a surprise twist, recorded the witness’s final testimony – to follow a trail of chemicals from a 1960s cold case, to a present-day environmental disaster.