Just Stop Oil held a Tomato Soup protest on Van Gogh's Sunflowers. The group say the UK needs to invest in renewable energy instead of oil. They hope that by targeting something precious and valuable, people will feel discomfort when they see it being threatened.
Tensions are simmering in London as climate protesters turn up the heat on their soup-flinging activism. Rishi Sunak’s government is attempting to keep the situation from boiling over.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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