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Earlier episodes:

Chris Fallows: The flight and plight of the Great White Shark

Aug 1 2023

Save the Rhino Trust Namibia: Desert days with the Black Rhinos

Jul 4 2023

Sophie Pavelle: 10 Remarkable British Species (and the Fable of Janet who fondly found their faeces)

Jun 6 2023

Tan Twan Eng: The Master of the Nature Metaphor with his roots deep in the Concrete Jungle

May 16 2023

Dr Brian Briggs: The Return of the Marsh Warbler

May 2 2023

Emma Marsh: Feathers and Feminism with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Kazakh Antelopes

Apr 4 2023

Chris Packham: Deep in the New Forest with the Really Wild Showman

Mar 7 2023

Bison Whisperers: The Return of the Native

Feb 7 2023

Dr Trevor Dines: Nobody ties themselves to buttercups

Jan 10 2023

Sarah Gillespie: Of Moths and Mezzotints – an Artist’s Metamorphosis

Dec 6 2022

Dan “Swampy” Hooper: The power of protest and learning to live with it (and pooing in tunnels with friends)

Nov 1 2022

Leigh Morris: Sexy carrots & feral wallabies – the adventures and curiosities hidden behind Manannan’s cloak

Oct 4 2022

Dr Amy-Jane Beer: The 3 R’s of Nature Writing – Reading, Roaming and the Radial symmetry of Sea Urchin larvae

Sep 6 2022

Dr Gavin Broad: Broadening horizons with Darwin’s wasps & other tales of cannibalism, incest and zombies

Aug 2 2022

Lost on Lundy: The hidden treasures of a wildlife landmark

Jul 5 2022

Beatrice von Preussen: All the little things that inspired an artist to travel from pole to pole

Jun 7 2022

George Monbiot: Feeding our future with heaven-sent bacteria and home-brewed scrumpy!

May 24 2022

“56(ish) Trees”

Dec 24 2021

Brigit Strawbridge Howard: As busy as a bee, whilst remaining humble as a bumble

Nov 5 2021

Peter Wohlleben: The hidden life of the ‘Green Sheep’ who wanted to become an Ent

Sep 3 2021

Richard Nairn: One man and his ‘meitheal’ replanting the ancient Wild Woods of Ireland

Jun 4 2021

Dr George McGavin: A World of Colour! The vertebrate in an invertebrate world

Sep 28 2020

Doug Allan: A witness beneath the waves on World Manta Day

Sep 17 2020

Mark Carwardine: On the realities of anti-poaching patrols & his conservation heroes

Sep 14 2020

Georgina Lamb & the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation: A lamb leading lions, elephants, pangolins, snow leopards, rhinos…

Aug 31 2020
Lion

Will Travers OBE: Born free and committed to compassionate conservation

Aug 17 2020

World Oyster (Reef) Day: Prof. Rowan Lockwood & Dr Bryce Stewart “shell-ebrate” the mighty mollusc!

Aug 5 2020

Prof. Kate Jones: What do you get if you cross David Attenborough with Harrison Ford?

Jul 20 2020

Dr William C. Tweed: The secret histories of John Muir’s Giant Redwoods

Jul 6 2020

Serena Manteghi: Ophelia and Shakespeare’s floral secrets

Jun 22 2020

Rosalind Forbes Adam: The field of dreams at the Woodmeadow Trust

Jun 15 2020

Jennie Martin: Foraging, fungi and forest bathing in lockdown

Jun 8 2020

Life on Langholm Moor: Wild justice and community spirit seeking the raptors’ return

Jun 1 2020

Dara McAnulty: The young naturalist providing new perspectives on old problems

May 25 2020

Éanna Ní Lamhna: The force of nature teaching teachers about the Emerald Isle

May 11 2020

Alastair Humphreys: Living adventurously, yet learning how to love home

Apr 27 2020

CURL-EW-PHORIA! Why the duck is everyone wacky about this wonderful wader?

Apr 21 2020

Alastair Gunn: Roses, wildflowers and tending ‘to the manor’s thorn’

Apr 17 2020

Nick Cooke: Beneath the boughs with bluebells and brambles

Apr 15 2020

Nick Howard: Heritage, home and honing the Howard’s way

Apr 13 2020

Luci Ryan: A hidden battle against HS2 to preserve five ancient woodlands

Mar 31 2020

Dr Helen Pheby: Sculpture for sheep & rhubarb trains; the place ‘extraordinary’ can happen

Mar 30 2020

Edward Davey: Learning how to feed the planet in response to COVID-19

Mar 26 2020

Tim Pears: Foraging fables from the hedgerows of the West Country

Mar 16 2020

Rob Rose & Natalie Stoppard: Food as a by-product of conservation at Rosewood Farm

Mar 2 2020

Ingrid Newkirk: One woman and ‘Animalkind’; the tale of PETA’s rabbits

Feb 17 2020

Dr Bryce Stewart: The man who writes his phone number on lobsters

Feb 3 2020

Dr Catherine Barlow: No Puffins were harmed in the making of this Golden Eagle podcast

Jan 20 2020

Mark Carwardine: “Don’t ever french-kiss a Narwhal”… and other words of wisdom

Jan 6 2020

Joanna Lentini: Swimming with crocodiles to photograph her fears

Dec 23 2019

Victoria Bromley: Producing wildlife documentaries and inspiring the next generation

Dec 16 2019

Dr Richard Benwell: Carbon footprints and coots’ feet; the Greenman running in Wantage

Dec 2 2019

Dr Jo Elworthy: Living in Eden – how to leave the world better than you found it

Nov 18 2019

Sir John Lawton: The wit, wisdom and winged omens of the man who would re-wild Chernobyl

Nov 4 2019

Amanda Owen: Deep in the Dales with the Yorkshire Shepherdess

Oct 21 2019

The Art of Trees: Live from the Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Woodland Trust

Oct 14 2019

Harry Barton: Balancing wildlife in Devon and a vision of natural justice

Oct 7 2019

Tannis Davidson: Quaggas, dugongs and thylacines – and the heroic bulletproof elephant

Sep 23 2019

Chris Watson (Part Two): If a podcast is recorded in a forest, and no one is around to hear it…

Sep 9 2019

Chris Watson (Part One): The winds catching the conifers – and the secrets of the dawn chorus

Aug 26 2019

Dr Jess French: Two legs, good – six legs, better! One woman and her many minibeasts

Aug 12 2019

Dr Terry Gough: Sowing seeds in the flowerbeds of Kings and Queens

Jul 29 2019

Rebecca Speight: The Overstory and Understory of the Woodland Trust

Jul 15 2019

Wolfgang Buttress and Dr Martin Bencsik: Hive minds waxing lyrical

Jul 1 2019

Bella Hardy: Singing in the Shadows of Mountains

Jun 17 2019

Maldives Underwater Initiative: Diving with Pearls

Jun 3 2019

Dr Guy Stevens: Guarding the Big Blue’s Gentle Giant

May 20 2019

Dr Fay Clark: Ring-tails, killer whales and the history of the British zoo

May 7 2019

Dr Ellinor Michel: Snail shells and concrete dinosaurs in deep time

Apr 29 2019

Dr Steve Etches: Plumbing the prehistoric depths of the Kimmeridge Clay

Apr 22 2019

Dr Katherine Brent: Morris dancing, bees and badger cull protestors

Apr 15 2019

Astrid Goldsmith: Puppets, politics and The Wind in the Willows with extra Wombles

Apr 8 2019

David Fettes: Going against the crowd – and the best moment to press the button

Mar 25 2019

Polly Morgan: Form and colour rather than life and death

Mar 11 2019

Mark Frith: a legacy of Britain’s ancient oaks

Feb 25 2019

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