All Episodes
Trees A Crowd — 143 episodes
Painted Dogs of Hwange: Where the Wild Pack Runs
The Executive Branch: Beccy Speight (RSPB), Darren Moorcroft (Woodland Trust) and Craig Bennett (The Wildlife Trusts)
Rakan Zahawi: Giant ambitions at the Charles Darwin Foundation
Prof. Carlos Mena: Trust the Locals, Trust the Science, Protect the Galápagos
Prof. Diana Pazmiño: Rays, Research and the Real Guardians of the Galápagos
Abraham Joffe: The Secret Trade in Polar Bears (or, “How to Save an Animal Everyone Thinks Is Already Protected!”)
Iris Ho: Primates, Policy, and the Power of CITES
Elephant in the Room: Wildlife Trust of India’s Rapid Response to Grounded Humans & Uprooted Wanderers
Dr Bhaskar Choudhury: The Floodplain Guardians and the Elephants of Kaziranga
"Her Deepness" Dr Sylvia Earle & Dr Tessa Hempson: Protect the Oceans Like Your Life Depends Upon It... (Because It Does!)
More M.G. Leonard: Further Furry Tales from the Riverbank
M G Leonard: Storytelling and the power of Beetles! “Elytra Literature” from Shakespeare to Starship Troopers.
Dr Hannah Trayford & Rachel Bigsby: The State of the Badger, with the Badger Trust
Matthew Oates: A Paean to the Purple Emperor. One Man’s Passion-filled Past Devoted to Great British Butterflies
Tim Kendall & Fiona Mathews (PART TWO): Eye spy an eco-engineer! Deep in the Forest of Dean in search of the contentious Wild Boar...
Fiona Mathews & Tim Kendall: Wild Mammals are far from 'Boar-ing'
Rob Stoneman: Resurrecting Rainforests, Protecting Peat and Constructing Conservation Kingdoms along our Coastlines
The Horstmann Trust: Vultures in the Valleys!
Andy & Peter Holden: A Filial History of Nest Building
Dr David Hetherington: Reintroducing the Lynx lynx lynx to our Cairngorms (a cat so enigmatic that they named it thrice!)
Dr Ruth Tingay: From Birds in Boxes to Rivers of Raptors; One woman’s mission for Wild Justice against Raptor Persecution
Katie Holten: The Three Questions
Katie Holten: Hedge Schools, Tree Time and the Language of our Forests
Paul Donald: Birds, Buddhists and Bypasses; Tales of Trafficking & Traffication with that Lark Sex Ratio Guy
Samuel West: The West Wing live at the Global Bird Fair
Paul Vorster: The Secrets of Sanbona, or: “Hippos!” and How Best to Become an Impact Player in Conservation
Nardstar*: Illuminating Cape Town's Evolving Streets, One Caracal at a Time
Chris Fallows: The flight and plight of the Great White Shark, as documented by Cape Town’s legendary Shark Man
Piet Beytell & Tommy Hall: Two very different perspectives united in thwarting Rhino poaching across Namibia
Save the Rhino Trust Namibia: Desert days with the Black Rhinos and the Rangers who protect them from Poachers
Sophie Pavelle: Ten Remarkable British Species and the Fable of Janet who fondly found their Faeces
Tan Twan Eng: The Master of the Nature Metaphor with his roots deep in the Concrete Jungle
Dr Brian Briggs: The Return of the Marsh Warbler and his Secret Identity hidden amongst the Reed Beds
Emma Marsh: Feathers and Feminism with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Kazakh Antelopes
Chris Packham (Part Two): Through sand and snow with Rothko and Rimbaud... (No, that's not what Chris calls his dogs!)
Chris Packham (Part One): Deep in the New Forest with the Really Wild Showman
Bison Whisperers: The Return of the Native
Dr Trevor Dines (Part Two): Mapping “The Trevor Dines Effect” with North Wales’ Meadow Maker
Dr Trevor Dines (Part One): Nobody ties themselves to buttercups (unless you’re born a botanist!)
Sarah Gillespie: Of Moths and Mezzotints - an Artist’s Metamorphosis
Dan "Swampy" Hooper: The power of protest and learning to live with it (and pooing in tunnels with friends)
Leigh Morris: Sexy carrots & feral wallabies - the adventures and curiosities hidden behind Manannan’s cloak
Dr Amy-Jane Beer: The 3 R’s of Nature Writing - Reading, Roaming and the Radial symmetry of Sea Urchin larvae
Dr Gavin Broad: Broadening horizons with Darwin's wasps and other tales of cannibalism, incest and zombies
Lost on Lundy: The hidden treasures of a wildlife landmark; aka, “David adventures to Puffin Island!”
Bonus Beatrice: Bearded Seals & Ice Flowers - further stories from the ice sheets
Beatrice von Preussen: All the little things that inspired an artist to travel from pole to pole
George Monbiot: Feeding our future with heaven-sent bacteria and home-brewed scrumpy!
Norwegian Spruce: Our Viking Christmas Tree; aka ‘The Return of the Native’
Holly: Merry berries & mistle thrushes deck our true native Christmas tree
The Viburnums: Ways fared to Guelderland via chalk paths and waterlogged fens
Elder: The people’s purple medicine chest lined with pariahs, period pop-guns & poo
Wild Privet: Your country needs Spitfires, stick-insects and an untrimmed bush!
Ash: Unlocking dieback with firelight, hurley sticks & Heiðrún the Viking goat
Strawberry Tree: No, not that kind... rather, a god-sent Irish oddity with several subterranean secrets
Dogwood: Victorian dating & rodent reanimating; the secrets of the bloody whippletree
Brigit Strawbridge Howard: As busy as a bee, whilst remaining humble as a bumble
The Limes: Bast-ardly BIG trees smothered in glamrock moths & decapitated bees
Sycamore: The mucilage & mysteries stuck upon our misunderstood martyr maple
Field Maple: Is it a BIRD (tongue)? Is it (an experimental Second World War) PLANE (cargo drop)? No! It's the colourful corky bungs of the SAPINDACEAE!
Hornbeam: Hardwood for smelting Boy Scouts & yoking chariots to hunt Ben Hur!
Hazel: "Monsieur, with your mellow fruitfulness, Dormice and ancient epigenetic poetical-pescatarianism, you are really spoiling us!"
The Birches: Magic Shrooms to Witches Brooms, the A to Z of the Birch nurtured
Alder: Swamp thing! You make my heart (-sized root nodules) sing / fix nitrogen with a symbiotic bacterium!
Sweet Chestnut: Legendarily tasty, but as prickly and trustworthy as a Borgia
The Oaks: From two tiny acorns grow Viking Gods, Druidic ritual sacrifice, Nazis and... Mr Darcy?!
Peter Wohlleben: The hidden life of the ‘Green Sheep’ who wanted to become an Ent
Beech: Never judge a ‘buche’ by its leaf-cover - (Buchen sollst du suchen-ish!)
Wych Elm: Which wonky wych is the survivor; our world's first wood woman?
English Elms: Dreams in Crystal Palaces, but coffins by Cathedrals
Sea Buckthorn: Fuelling flying horses & fixing sand dunes - the tree that started it all?
The Buckthorns: Fire, brimstones and the invasive aliens hiding in a pig's bladder
Rowan: All hail the Witchwood; the high-flying hero of Thor & dairy-maids!
Wild Service: A checkered past spent pizzled with politicians & ancient french knights
Whitebeam: The gorge-ous (geeky) sub-science behind our mighty 'Plant Elephants'
The Hawthorns: May Fairies protect your Midland bush against any Common Haws
Crab Apple: 'A' is for sin, cider, gravity and pip-popping Auroch-pat parties
Wild Pears: Infanticide, scampi & Barbarossa’s bloody bearded pear conference
The Cherries: Drupes adored by birds; blossom revered by Kamikaze suicide pilots
Blackthorn: Burgeoning with Booze, Black Magic and Butcher Birds
Richard Nairn: One man & his 'meitheal' replanting the ancient Wild Woods of Ireland
White & Grey Poplars: Twelve labours of Heracles, vs. Two non-native Poplars
Aspen: The tremulous beauty & ‘beaver-bonds’ of our immortal Quaking Poplar
Black Poplar: Devil’s fingers & flame-breathing horses heralding the fall of a giant
The Willows: Highly immoral, incestuous, SEX-obsessed, b*stards!
Spindle: Linnaeus' favourite charcoal with splashes of Indian celebration
Box: The music, art and sensory secrets hidden within Queen Anne’s box
Scots Pine: Wolves, woodants and the wonder of our keystone species
Juniper: A gin-fuelled journey to Oregon, via Holland and Georgian London
Yew: From Agincourt to cancer-cure, the ancient tree of life and death
Oakes on Oaks: Introducing our 56(ish) Trees
Dr George McGavin (Part Two): Putting the “Ooo!” into Zooology with evil cats and spider penises!
Dr George McGavin (Part One): A World of Colour! The vertebrate in an invertebrate world!
Doug Allan: A witness beneath the waves on World Manta Day
(More) Mark Carwardine: On the realities of anti-poaching patrols & his conservation heroes
Georgina Lamb: A Lamb leading lions, elephants, pangolins, snow leopards, rhinos and the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation
Will Travers OBE: Born free and committed to compassionate conservation
World Oyster Day: Prof. Rowan Lockwood & Dr Bryce Stewart “shell-ebrate” the mighty mollusc!
Prof. Kate Jones (Part Two): Bats - mixing your margaritas since 55,000,000 BC
Prof. Kate Jones (Part One): What do you get if you cross David Attenborough with Harrison Ford?
Dr William C. Tweed: Whale < Bear < Human < Squirrel
Dr William C. Tweed: The secret histories of John Muir’s Giant Redwoods
Serena Manteghi: Ophelia and Shakespeare's floral secrets
Rosalind Forbes Adam: The field of dreams at the Woodmeadow Trust
Jennie Martin: Foraging, fungi and forest bathing in lockdown
Life on Langholm Moor: Wild justice and community spirit seeking the raptors’ return
Dara McAnulty: The young naturalist providing new perspectives on old problems
Éanna Ní Lamhna (Part 2): The trees of Ireland and our snake-free run up to the sixth extinction
Éanna Ní Lamhna (Part 1): The force of nature teaching teachers about the Emerald Isle
Alastair Humphreys: Living adventurously, yet learning how to love home
"Curlew" by Bella Hardy
CURL-EW-PHORIA!
Alastair Gunn: Roses, wildflowers and tending ‘to the manor’s thorn’
Ingrid Newkirk: One woman and ‘Animalkind’; the tale of PETA’s rabbits
Dr Bryce Stewart: The man who writes his phone number on lobsters
Dr Catherine Barlow: No puffins were harmed in the making of this golden eagle podcast
Mark Carwardine: "Don’t ever french-kiss a Narwhal”... and other words of wisdom
Joanna Lentini: Swimming with crocodiles to photograph her fears
Victoria Bromley: Producing wildlife documentaries and inspiring the next generation
Dr Richard Benwell: Carbon footprints and coots’ feet; the Greenman running in Wantage
Dr Jo Elworthy: Living in Eden – how to leave the world better than you found it
Sir John Lawton: The wit, wisdom and winged omens of the man who would re-wild Chernobyl
Amanda Owen: Deep in the Dales with the Yorkshire Shepherdess
The Art of Trees: Live from the Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Woodland Trust
Harry Barton: Balancing Wildlife in Devon and a Vision of Natural Justice
Tannis Davidson: Bulletproof elephants, 3D-printing a quagga and cloning thylacines
Chris Watson (Part Two): If a podcast is recorded in a forest, and no one is around to hear it…
Chris Watson (Part One): The winds catching the conifers – and the secrets of the dawn chorus
Dr Jess French: Two legs, good – six legs, better! One woman and her many minibeasts
Dr Terry Gough: Sowing seeds in the flowerbeds of Kings and Queens
Rebecca Speight: The Overstory and Understory of the Woodland Trust
Wolfgang Buttress and Dr Martin Bencsik: Hive minds waxing lyrical
Bella Hardy: Singing in the Shadows of Mountains
Maldives Underwater Initiative: Diving with Pearls
Dr Guy Stevens: Guarding the Big Blue’s Gentle Giant
Dr Fay Clark: Ring-tails, Killer Whales and the history of the British Zoo.
Dr Ellinor Michel: Snail shells and concrete dinosaurs in deep time
Dr Steve Etches MBE: Plumbing the prehistoric depths of the Kimmeridge Clay
Dr Katherine Brent: Morris dancing, bees and badger cull protestors
Astrid Goldsmith: Puppets, politics, and The Wind in the Willows with extra Wombles
David Fettes: Going against the crowd - and the best moment to press the button
Polly Morgan: Form and colour rather than life and death
Mark Frith: a legacy of Britain's ancient oaks