End Times, the latest, brilliant book from acclaimed science writer and academic Professor Rebecca Priestley, tells the story of her escapades with best friend Maz over two distinct periods in their lives: the first, punctuated by 1980s punk and protest before an evangelical Christian phase; the second, a West Coast road trip in 2021 amid the tangles of covid conspiracies and the yawning threats of Climate Change and an Alpine Fault rupture.

Priestley joins Kim Hill to discuss the fruitless, even hilarious, beauty of memoir in the face of the end of the world and why it is that we do what we do, think what we think, and how that might change.