Disaster Management w Professor Lucy Easthope

How do you prepare for an event that"s never happened in your lifetime? What"s it like to feel like the boy who cried wolf? Do we have a plan for alien invasion? And why were disaster planners called to plan for Brexit?  On this week"s episode, we talk to Professor Lucy Easthope, the UK"s leading authority on recovering from disaster. Lucy is a charming, expert who cares deeply about her field. Over the course of the hour we cover how experts plan for disaster, what kinds of disasters they plan for, why and how it goes wrong and what we can all expect from the disaster recovery of the pandemic. Lucy"s book - When the Dust Settles is out now, you can find out more about that here.