Royal Geographical Society

RGS Presents: The Future of Exploration

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Hosted by Matt Pycroft, this new RGS podcast series is an inquiry into what it means to explore in a rapidly changing world. We’ll speak with leading thinkers, scientists, and explorers to examine both the practical frontiers and the philosophical questions that define modern discovery. The series asks what’s left to explore, how exploration is changing, and why it matters more now than ever before – a conversation that will challenge assumptions, broaden perspective, and help shape how we understand the unknown in the decades ahead.

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Tom Allen 30.06.2026 44:37

What does it mean to explore a world that already feels mapped? In this conversation, Tom Allen, explorer, author, and the Society’s current Expeditions and Fieldwork Manager, frames the future of exploration as curiosity in action – the ongoing practice of looking closer, asking better questions, and sharing what we find. Drawing on years of slow travel, expeditions, fieldwork, and translating th...

Live with Bruce Parry 15.06.2026 1:33:34

In this live recording, explorer, broadcaster and author Bruce Parry challenges one of the most enduring ideas in exploration: that its purpose is to discover what’s ‘out there’. Instead, he argues, the real frontiers of exploration lie in rediscovering what we as a species have forgotten about ourselves. Best known for the multiple BBC series that documented his time living with Indigenous commun...

RGS Presents: The Future of Exploration trailer 14.06.2026 0:38

How is exploration changing? Why does it matter now more than ever before? Our new podcast series asks what it means to explore in a rapidly changing world. Across 10 episodes, host Matt Pycroft interviews a leading thinker, scientist or explorer to examine the practical and the philosophical questions that define modern discovery. Episodes are released every two weeks starting Tuesday 30 June 20...