Latest Bat society Podcast Episodes
How to get a bat licence - with Richard Crompton
BatChat - March 06, 2024 06:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS5E55 Sat in the entrance to a cave in Wales, hidden amongst temperate rainforest, Richard Crompton gives you his insight into the best way to go about getting your bat licence. Richard has been training ecologists for many years now with around 400 people coming to his courses over the years. I...
Bats at the National Trust
BatChat - February 21, 2024 06:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS5E54 This week Steve sits down with Joanne Hodgkins, nature conservation advisor for the National Trust. Sitting in the hot August sunshine at The Vyne near Basingstoke, Steve finds out how the National Trust cares not just for it's special places, but for it's special wildlife. Jo explains how...
The sonic success of David King; Inventor of BatBox detectors
BatChat - February 07, 2024 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS5E53 This week we join David King who created the BatBox III and BatBox Duet detectors amongst several others for four decades. David tells Steve of how it all came about and they delve into the history of bat detecting, how the Bat Detective book and CD was created and we get an insight into h...
Bat Tracking; the drones changing the way we can undertake research
BatChat - January 24, 2024 06:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS5E52 Steve calls in to Canberra, Australia to chat with Dr Debbie Saunders. For over 20 years Debbie has worked as an ecologist and studied the movements of small migratory birds. This includes the Swift Parrot, one of Australia’s most endangered birds. Like many small animals, Swift Parrots ...
Bats in the Channel: Jersey Bat Group
BatChat - January 10, 2024 06:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS5E51 Join Steve in early summer on the Island of Jersey as he sits down with a trio from the bat group. In this interview we hear about the historic work of the group and the sort of survey work being done at the moment on the Island. With 18 bat species recorded on this 46 square miles of land...
Boathouse to Bat House
BatChat - December 27, 2023 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS5E50 On the edge of Kidderminster lies Hurcott Pool and Wood Nature Reserve. An old boathouse on the edge of the pool has been repurposed by Worcestershire Bat Group and a few minutes away lies Lea Castle Village where the street lighting has been designed with bats at the forefront of its desi...
Walking with bats
BatChat - December 13, 2023 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS5E49 This week we join BCT member Mark Ferguson who has just released his latest album; Walking With Bats. What does it sound like to go bat detecting? From start to finish, this question has underpinned Walking with Bats. Mark's main goal throughout the album's development has been simple: to ...
The Lifesaving Legacy of Livingstone's Fruit Bats at Jersey Zoo
BatChat - November 29, 2023 06:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS5E48 Jersey Zoo in the Channel Islands is home to 90% of the world's captive population of Livingstone's fruit bats. With an estimated 1300 in the wild, this captive breeding programme is vital to the survival of the species in a disaster event. We join Dominic Wormell inside the bat enclosure ...
Gargoyle Guardians: A Bat Count at Lacock Abbey with the Wiltshire Bat Group
BatChat - November 15, 2023 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS5E47 On the edge of the Cotswolds lies Lacock Abbey, home to Professor Quirrel's classroom and the Mirror of Erised. But whilst millions of people will recognise the Cloisters of the Abbey used in the filming of the Harry Potter franchise, a rather special spectacle can be found here once the s...
The Bechstein's of Bracketts
BatChat - November 01, 2023 06:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS5E46 Hidden in west Dorset is a nature reserve which holds a very special secret. A bat box scheme which was installed in the late 1990's is home to one of the most well-studied colonies of Bechstein's bats. Join Steve as he spends the day with the Vincent Wildlife Trust and Dorset Wildlife Tru...
It's time for Series 5!
BatChat - October 18, 2023 06:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBatChat Series 5 is set to kick off on Wednesday November 1st, with an exciting lineup of guests and fascinating interviews. Stay tuned for more great content and enriching conversations. Don't forget to check out the accompanying video on YouTube for more batty content. Mark your calendars, set...
A new exhibition of wildlife sound at the British Library
BatChat - April 26, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS4E45 - Bonus! This summer, in a major new exhibition, you can see how documenting the animal world has resulted in some of humankind’s most awe-inspiring art, science and sound recordings: Animals: Art, Science and Sound is now open at the British Library Part of the exhibition is dedicated to...
Wild Isles
BatChat - April 02, 2023 19:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS4E44 - Bonus! The landmark nature documentary series Wild Isles, presented by Sir David Attenborough is currently transmitting on Sunday's at 7pm on BBC One. The fourth episode "Freshwater" features a fabulous bat sequence, recorded in Yorkshire of the phenomenon of autumn swarming. Back in Nov...
The History of Bat Conservation with Dr Bob Stebbings
BatChat - March 01, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS4E43 As series four comes to a close, Steve sits down with a titan of bat conservation. Dr Robert (Bob) Stebbings is one of the original bat workers in the UK and in this episode we hear about some of the major bat conservation work undertaken by Bob over the last half century. Make sure you ...
Bats find mates at Cliveden House
BatChat - February 15, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS4E42 This week Steve joins Chris Damant in the grounds of Cliveden House on the banks of the River Thames. As fine dining takes place in the hotel above them, Chris and his team have set up traps to catch bats as they arrive to mate in the middle of the night. Underneath the south terrace are a...
Winged passions: The bat basement of Cliveden House
BatChat - February 15, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS4E42 This week Steve joins Chris Damant in the grounds of Cliveden House on the banks of the River Thames. As fine dining takes place in the hotel above them, Chris and his team have set up traps to catch bats as they arrive to mate in the middle of the night. Underneath the south terrace are a...
Tony Hutson & the greater mouse-eared bat
BatChat - February 01, 2023 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS4E41 Tony Hutson has been shouting about bats since the 1960's and has changed the bat conservation landscape in that time. He was a founding member of the bat groups of Britain, the precursor to the Bat Conservation Trust. His survey work on the lonely greater mouse-eared bat inspired a play a...
How the Western Link could affect the Western barbastelle
BatChat - January 18, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS4E40 In this interview recorded right at the end of August 2022, Steve is sat in a Norfolk woodland with Dr Charlotte Packman. We learn what potential impacts a new road in the area might have on the local bat populations and as Lotty explains it could have a significant impact on a nationally ...
The bat man of Mexico
BatChat - January 04, 2023 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS4E39 Rodrigo Medellín is Mexico's very own 'Bat Man'. Since he first kept vampire bats in his bathroom as a child, Rodrigo has dedicated his life to saving them. On the evening of the 2022 UK National Bat Conference, Steve sits down with Rodrigo and asks him what it felt like to succeed in taki...
Bat flies with Dr Erica McAlister
BatChat - December 21, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS4E38 We return to London's Natural History Museum. This time however, we're in the bowels of the Diptera collection with flygirl herself, Dr Erica McAlister. If you think you recognise that name it's because Erica has graced the airwaves several times before including BBC Radio 4's The Infinite...
Haddon Hall
BatChat - December 07, 2022 05:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS4E37 Haddon Hall, the private residence of Lord and Lady Edward Manners, is set in the Peak District in the valley of the River Wye. With nine hundred years of history, it is one of the oldest houses in the country and moreover one of the only houses in England to have remained in one family’s...
The find of the century
BatChat - November 23, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS4E36 You join us in a secret location this week. Back in 2019, Scotty Dodd from the Sussex Bat Group made the most significant discovery in the history of the bat group...the first maternity roost of greater horseshoe bats in Sussex for one hundred years. Truly the find of the century! In a sma...
Bat roost visit service
BatChat - November 09, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS4E35 We're back with a brand new series! This week Steve joins a volunteer roost visitor, Chris Smith from Staffordshire Bat Group, on a roost visit requested by the Bat Conservation Trust. Chris discusses the value of the free service, how he got into volunteering for the visits and why he thi...
Series 4 is nearly here!
BatChat - October 19, 2022 06:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBatChat is returning on 9th November 2022 with series 4 and we want to hear from you! Yes that's right; you guys, your voices, on this show. We want you to get in touch with your favourite bat experience. Maybe you discovered bats living in your house, you went on a bat walk for the first time ...
Knepp Rewilding Estate
BatChat - March 23, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS3E34 Hidden amongst the boughs of an Oak tree, Steve & his guests look down over the Knepp Castle Rewilding Estate; former farmland which has been allowed to return to nature by the owners Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell. In this episode, as the sun sets the light turns golden. Below us red dee...
The National Bat Monitoring Programme
BatChat - March 09, 2022 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS3E33 Discover the amazing work taking place in the dead of night each year by hoards of volunteers. This episode starts with Steve joining a team of these volunteers who are counting out a brown long-eared bat roost in the Derbyshire Dales at dusk as a nearby rookery gathers. We then sit down i...
Angela Mills; Bobby the brown long-eared bat
BatChat - February 23, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS3E32 Join Steve on the Welcombe Hills overlooking Stratford-upon-Avon as he sits down with the author of Bobby the brown long-eared bat, a children's book which follows the adventure of a baby brown long-eared bat who lives in the attic of a farmyard. Sitting in the autumn sunshine on a wooden ...
Bat conservation in action with Jim Mullholland
BatChat - February 09, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS3E31 This week Steve is on the Tortworth Estate in south Gloucestershire with Jim Mullholland. They're joined by a voluntary team of arborists who are assisting Jim with his 5 year project to create natural tree features for Bechstein's and barbastelle bats. By using chainsaws to create differe...
Bats at RHS Wisley
BatChat - January 26, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS3E30 This week Steve is in Surrey at RHS Garden Wisley with Principal Entomologist Dr Andrew Salisbury. Andrew sits down with Steve in the brand new wildlife garden outside their new laboratory building to tell us about the work the RHS do and how we can improve our gardens for wildlife includi...
A bat call library with Martyn Cooke
BatChat - January 12, 2022 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsS3E29 This week Steve joins Martyn Cooke outside a holiday cottage in Staffordshire as they set up a matrix of bat detectors to record the sound of Brandt's bats emerging from their roost before flying into the adjacent woodland. Martyn explains why he is recording the calls, why he's travelled ...
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