The Scramble for Rare Earths

This BBC Radio 4 Sounds series explores the need for scarce minerals and metal resources and their importance.

Misha Glenny explores the unnoticed global competition to control production of the rare earth metals which are crucial to all our futures, especially for the energy transition.

Not so unnoticed following Trump's announcements re. Greenland.

And even less unnoticed following the US deal with Ukraine on those very minerals that are mentioned in one of the episodes.

There are 5 episodes in the series.