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What are you going to do if you like tribal living and you’re in the cold winter of the Levant? Head south to the Southern Hemisphere, and to the wilds of Africa. After leaving Israel and Jordan that is exactly what I did. I arrived in Nairobi
The north-west corner of Thailand is the most sparsely populated corner of the country. Mountains, forests and rivers, as far as the eye can see. And sometimes a village. This village is called Menora. Its a Karen village, without electricit
Over Christmas I took the opportunity to look back over some of the talk from 2011. Here I bring you the words of the ‘moral leaders of the nation’. The first comes from the American nation. The second comes from the Australian nation. The f
Three of the most important environmental decisions you make each day: Breakfast Lunch Dinner With that in mind, Alissa Bilfield co-founder and director of the Cookbook Project is on the line from Boston in the US to kick off the show and tell
This week we hear from Executive Director of The Australia Institute Richard Denniss about the real story of the mining industry in Australia. With the high cost of living in Perth in mind, partly caused by the mining boom, more people are t
This week the show comes from Vietnam. I make a botched attempt of singing a line from Noel Coward, and then explore Ba Be National Park in northern Vietnam. Ba Be is an area of deep green rainforest and high limestone peaks. I talk with the di
This week’s Understorey starts with a discussion with David Conover, a film maker in America (pictured above). Conover is the mastermind behind the contemplative and visually stunning series Sunrise Earth, and he is currently producing a film
This week on Understorey its a reggae special. I talk with roots reggae legend Pablo Moses – pictured above – about his music and the place of nature in the Rastafarian faith. Later I interview Ian Scobie, director of Earth Station, a boutiqu
Recently I found myself sitting at the back of a sparse stone chamber and looking through a granite arch out over woodland, boulders and fields, all wet and green. This was the prospect from my refuge. I hadn’t expected to find myself sitting
Griffin Longley from Nature Play talks with me about his efforts to remedy nature deficit disorder in Perth. Tim Beatly from the University of Virginia’s architecture school chats with me about biophilic cities, and how Fremantle might become
I recently attended a forum on the end of logging in Western Australia at Notre Dame in Fremantle. The MC for the event was none other than English comedian Ben Elton. On this week’s Understorey we hear from Ben Elton, as well as other speake
Tibet has maintained a deeply conservative cultural tradition and religion for many hundreds of years behind a curtain of high mountains. If you were at the Burswood Dome last weekend to see the Dalai Lama you would have seen the red robes and
President of the Australian Conservation Foundation Ian Lowe comes into the RTR studios to talk with me about the Australian federal government’s series of failures to deal with the threat of climate change. Here is this week’s podcast.
This week I managed to get one of Australia’s most critically acclaimed poets, John Kinsella, to record his poem ‘Perth Poem’ for the show. As you follow his branches through the urban corners and natural facets of this Western city you’ll be
I talk with Tim Flannery about his fantastic new book Here On Earth. He was here for the Perth Writer’s Festival and I got to have a chat with him in the RTR studio. Here is the podcast.
I visit the WA Museum, a big green shed in Welshpool, a suburb of Perth, and talk to ecologist Ric How about the native animals of Perth and how they have fared over the years. Here is this week’s podcast.
Bruce Abbott of Replants, a business in Fremantle, talks about his work transplanting grass trees from bush to be destroyed around Perth. Greens MLC Lyn McClaren talks about the latest evidence condemning the export of live cattle to Indonesia
Legendary Australian environmental philosopher John Seed discusses and reads from the work of his favourite poet Robinson Jeffers. Danny Cummings reads from Henry David Thoreau. Here is this week’s podcast.
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