Episode 226 - A Man Of Many Talents - John Neville

You know how sometimes you meet someone who does something interesting, but as you get to know them, you learn that actually, there’s a lot more to them than that one thing that got your attention in the first place? Well, that explains John Neville. I contacted John because he’s on one of the mailing lists for sound recordists that I belong to. His work intrigued me, so I asked him if he’d be a guest on the show. Like many people I interview on this program, John’s a wildlife sound recordist. I asked him the usual questions, but as we got into the interview, I had to call an audible (You like that? That’s a Podcast joke), because he was going off-script. Suddenly, I’m discovering that this guy I’m having a very interesting conversation with is also a physical therapist, an author, was a city councilman for more than 20 years, spends months in a motor home every year with his wife, traveling around North America recording wildlife, has produced a large number of CDs full of his bird recordings, and has had an outsized impact on his country—and I’m not talking about the U.S. John lives in British Columbia, in western Canada, on an island, and man, does he have a story to tell.