very impressive indeed and joining me to talk about this is our film guru scott rockstro great to see you scott and some incredible activity there how have film and t.v. industries in germany managed to get back to production levels that actually exceed prepared to make standard. yeah well i mean i guess you could say the film industry probably enough got creative the film and t.v. industry in germany i mean they were the absolute 1st industry to really apply scientific coded safety measures across the board so we're talking about testing about the the latest the myth using the latest medical knowledge and applying it to sort of work protocols and then they did it in the way though that without restricting the type of stories that they wanted to tell so they didn't make any compromises on the narrative so if you take a sample that film we just saw i'm your man that opens with that amazing scene in ball house berlin with people dancing kissing and and flirting and that's without mass without social distancing and they were able to do that one of the creative things the producers did in

and scott rockstro joins me on the line now from our studios in bonn good to see you scott we're going to talk a little bit more about this phenomenon that is climate fiction it's as johndroe that's really been gathering speed for some time now so how would you say classified differs from the traditional dystopian fiction that that's really been around for many decades. yeah i think the big differences of even traditional dystopian science fiction i mean you know in 1904 brave new world the worst possible future that's imagined is a future of sort of political dictatorship but with the rise of the climate catastrophe as a sort of the greatest fear of mankind you've seen writers respond to that end and start to imagine what this fear could look like if you realize so so books about the climate catastrophe or imagining a future in a climate catastrophe have become real bestsellers like like mylan does have a history of b.s. or a giant cooks of the new wilderness which was just nominated for the book it was interesting because it seems to me that the tone of some of these novels has has c