The Big Table, with Philip Lymbery (Philip Lymbery)

This month, Philip is at the Compassion's 10th Good Animal Welfare Awards in London to celebrate the retailers who are bringing cage free produce to the high street.

To celebrate the New Year, Philip talks to Kostas Stamoulis,Assistant Director General for the Department of Economic and Social Development at the Food and Agriculture Organization, also know as the FAO, about his resolutions for 2019.

Philip chats to patron of Compassion in World Farming, Joanna Lumley and River Cottage chef, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as he leads the capital's largest ever vegan banquet at The Savoy Hotel as guests of WACl, Women in Advertising and Commmunications, London, the city's oldest women's business club.

Business woman and TV celebrity, Deborah Meaden is known for her appearances on Dragon's Den and Strictly Come Dancing, but she is also a well known and passionate animal lover, a committed supporter of many animal charities and a champion of animal causes. Most recently Deborah played a significant role with TUSK in getting ivory banned from the UK, and talks to Philip on the blog about industrial farming of animals and Compassion's fight to stop live exports [http://philiplymbery.com/live-transport-must-be-stopped-deborah-meaden](http://) Here she talks to him about the need for labelling in foods.

CEO of Compassion in World Farming, Philip Lymbery shares a childhood love of conservation with TV presenter and one of Britain's best loved naturalists, Chris Packham and asks him about the big topics facing our food, the countryside, and animal welfare.

Philip meets the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, Erik Solheim to discuss the UNEP's priorities and finds out how fixing the global food system is central to its work.

Philip joins the great and the good of the food world in Abergavenny this year to celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of the very first food festivals in the UK. Here he talks to The Guardian's restaurant critic, Masterchef pundit and judge on BBC Two’s Great British Menu, Grace Dent, also in Abergavenny for the first time, about being 'almost vegan' in the world of food.

Philip meets the editor of Observer Food Monthly to talk about how trends can influence the way we think about food, farming and how and why we make our food choices.

Philip chats to world-renowned primatologist and foremost expert on chimpanzees, Dr Jane Goodall DBE about the links between her work and Compassion in World Farming.

Philip meets Seth Goldman as he launches the much anticipated Beyond Meat's Beyond Burger at Honest Burgers in the UK this month, and in 350 Tesco stores in August.

Philip and Tony Juniper, environmentalist and new director of campaigns and advocacy at WWF find much in common as they discuss the impact of the decline of wildlife on the future of the planet and how a global agreement on the future of farming is key to life on earth.

On the day that highly respected naturalist and broadcaster, Chris Packham has been announced as the latest patron to join Compassion in World Farming, here's another chance to listen to the #BigTable podcast recorded last Autumn in which Chris tells us how to join the dots between saving wildlife and rethinking our food choices.

Philip Lymbery talks to Compassion in World Farmning ambassador and Downton Abbey star, Peter Egan about how his love for dogs inspired him to become an animal advocate and a powerful champion for veganism.

This month, we visit Compassion in World Farming’s Livestock and Extinction conference in London. With the partnership of the World Wildlife Fund UK, it was the very first of its kind to examine the devastating impact of livestock production on animals, people and the planet.

Philip Lymbery talks about his latest book, 'Dead Zone; Where the Wild Things Were' with food philosopher, Julian Baggini and an audience at The Watershed in Bristol.

Philip Lymbery is at Wilderness festival in Oxfordshire to promote his book 'Dead Zone; Where the Wild Things Were'. Among the glittery festival goers, he meets Helen Pilcher, fellow science communicator and author who joins him at the books tent for Bloomsbury Sigma's event,'The Science of Survival' to promote her book 'Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction'.

CEO of Compassion in World Farming, Philip Lymbery takes his Stop The Machine campaign to end factory farming to the heart of the European Parliament in Brussels.