Our gardens are sanctuaries for a range of plants and animals, many of them unique to their locality or endangered around the world. In this podcast, I ask the RSPB's in-house gardening expert, Adrian Thomas, for his top tips on how to best loo

Tyrannosaurs with Dr David Hone

Jun 13th, 2020 1h 10m

An interview with Dr David Hone, author of The Tyrannosaur Chronicles (Bloomsbury, 2016), available on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2EYl8oA.Dr David Hone is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Biological Sciences Programmes at Queen Mary, Univers

How you can help the planet through citizen science projects

Jun 1st, 2020 13m 53s

If you are interested in taking a hands-on approach to protecting nature, there are loads of fascinating citizen science projects you can take part in - some don't even require you to leave your desk, others involve looking at lovely pictures o

Hedgehog Awareness Week 2020

May 2nd, 2020 26m 8s

An interview with author and ecologist Hugh Warwick, recorded in the run up to Hedgehog Awareness Week, a UK-based celebration of all-things hedgehog. We discussed what it is like to get to know a hedgehog, how Hugh came to be "Mr Hedgehog" and

The Victorian women who founded the RSPB

Apr 29th, 2020 40m 32s

An interview with Tessa Boase, author of "Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism – Women's Fight for Change", which is available on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/3fgtnZv.Few people are aware that the RSPB, Europe’s largest co