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Sunday Feature: 1816, the Year Without a Summer

Series 1, episode 0

Cultural historian and new generation thinker Corin Throsby explores how the extreme weather of 1816, caused by the eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora, had a significant cultural and social impact in Europe and beyond. As crops failed, the climatic conditions penetrated every corner of public and personal life: politics, religion and art, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Byron's poetry and Turner's sketchbooks. Corin considers the evidence for Tambora's eruption, preserved in ice cores held at the British Antarctic Survey headquarters, where she speaks to Dr Robert Mulvaney. At Tate Britain, Corin also discusses environmental art with Professor John Thornes. Other contributors include Gillen D'Arcy Wood, Alexandra Harris, Nicholas Klingaman and Daisy Hay