in the midst of

In 1947, as India prepared for its first cricket tour of Australia, the nation was in the midst of unprecedented upheaval.

After all, then-President Trump declared in 2020 that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping “love each other”, even in the midst of a bitter trade war with China.

One wife noted how lucky she felt because "we live right here in the midst of it all, so there's no life like it" while others talked about how "it's a great way to raise kids."

But in the midst of a divorce, days away from what would have been my 10-year wedding anniversary that will now be just another Saturday, I worried that watching this movie that I had previously seen with such dewy, life-filled eyes during much happier points of my life would send me over the edge now that the grand finale future I'd envisioned for myself felt hopelessly out of reach.

“We’re in the midst of the sixth great extinction,” Dr Goodall tells me during our interview for BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science.