Journalist and broadcaster Kate Quilton introduces Animal Futures - a new podcast from the RSPCA. The show explores what the future might look like for animals and how the choices we make now could impact the world they - and us - enjoy in decades to come.

Kate talks to expert guests on topics including robot pets and AI and how they could impact our relationship with animals, what alternative meat and proteins could mean for animal welfare, how we recognise the voice of animals in law and society and what nature means to us.

This podcast is part of the RSPCA Animal Futures Project which explores five potential future scenarios for animals. Listeners can find out more by playing our interactive Animal Futures game. People listening between 5 and 21 February and 17 March and 6 April can also have their say on what they heard as part of RSPCA Animal Futures: The Big Conversation - the biggest ever national conversation about the future of animal welfare.

Animal Futures Project: https://www.rspca.org.uk/whatwedo/latest/animalfutures

Animal Futures Game: https://www.rspca.org.uk/webContent/animalfutures/

Animal Futures: The Big Conversation: http://rspca.org.uk/bigconversation