Latest David oakes Podcast Episodes
"Curlew" by Bella Hardy
Trees A Crowd - April 22, 2020 08:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsThe uninterrupted world premiere of Bella Hardy's song "Curlew", as featured in our "World Curlew Day" episode - https://www.treesacrowd.fm/world-curlew-day/ This release also includes an introduction from Bella, atop Kinder Scout. Many thanks to Bella for agreeing to create this song for the pod...
CURL-EW-PHORIA!
Trees A Crowd - April 21, 2020 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsWhy the duck is everyone wacky about this wonderful wader? In this special episode of Trees A Crowd, David Oakes calls on friends in lockdown to discuss the wonders of an incredible bird, the Curlew. Featuring field recordings from sound-recordist Chris Watson, a world premier of original music...
Alastair Gunn: Roses, wildflowers and tending ‘to the manor’s thorn’
Trees A Crowd - April 17, 2020 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn the third and final episode of the Castle Howard trilogy, you’re introduced to head of gardens and landscapes, Alastair Gunn. Starting in one of the estate’s rose gardens, we meet a stunning, rare, white china rose, thought to be a devoniensis, planted over 40 years ago. Alastair has been on t...
Nick Cooke: Beneath the boughs with bluebells and brambles
Trees A Crowd - April 15, 2020 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn the second episode of the Castle Howard trilogy, meet the head of forestry, Nick Cooke. Nick has been part of the team looking after the estate since 1975, and over the years has had to figure out how to maintain the extensive forests, all-in-all covering over 60 miles of pathways. Arriving in...
Nick Howard: Heritage, home and honing the Howard’s way
Trees A Crowd - April 13, 2020 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsWe begin this trilogy of episodes at Castle Howard, with Nick Howard himself. Most recognisable to the public from the television show “Brideshead Revisited”, but for Nick the Castle Howard estate was his childhood home, a place where he felt such a distinct sense of freedom roaming around its ga...
Luci Ryan: A hidden battle against HS2 to preserve five ancient woodlands
Trees A Crowd - March 31, 2020 08:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDavid, speaking here as an Ambassador for the Woodland Trust, is joined in conversation by Luci Ryan, an ecologist and Lead Policy Advocate for conservation on behalf of the Woodland Trust. HS2 ltd - the company behind the Government's highspeed rail project - is quietly about to start moving the...
Dr Helen Pheby: Sculpture for sheep, and rhubarb trains; the place ‘Extraordinary’ can happen
Trees A Crowd - March 30, 2020 08:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDr Helen Pheby is the head of curatorial programmes at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Set in 500 acres of historic parkland, the park has provided a “gallery without walls” for artists such as Elisabeth Frink, Auguste Rodin, Giuseppe Penone, and local legends such as Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. ...
Edward Davey: Learning how to feed the planet in response to COVID-19
Trees A Crowd - March 26, 2020 16:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsEdward Davey is the Director of Geographic Deep Dives for the World Resources Institute and the Food and Land Use Coalition. Here, David and Ed speak briefly in direct response to the state of the global COVID-19 pandemic and how we might feed the people of the world moving forward. Ed and David ...
Tim Pears: Foraging fables from the hedgerows of the West Country
Trees A Crowd - March 16, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsTim Pears is a multi-award-winning author. His novel ‘In a Land of Plenty’ was made into a 10-part drama series for the BBC, and he’s just published the final book in his ‘West Country Trilogy’. Compared to Balzac and Hardy and inspired by Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx, Tim draws on his experi...
Rob Rose & Nat Stoppard: Food as a by-product of conservation at Rosewood Farm
Trees A Crowd - March 02, 2020 08:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsRosewood Farm makes its home in the Lower Derwent Valley, deep in the Yorkshire Ings. Here, Rob Rose, his partner Natalie Stoppard, and their award-winning herd of 160 Irish Dexters – Europe’s smallest native cattle breed – place conservation, environmentally friendly farming methods, and the hig...
Ingrid Newkirk: One woman and ‘Animalkind’; the tale of PETA’s rabbits
Trees A Crowd - February 17, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIngrid Newkirk is an animal rights activist, author, and the president of PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – and after 40 years of activism, her passion remains infectiously captivating. Ingrid was born in Britain, raised in India, and spent much of her life in America. As a ...
Dr Bryce Stewart: The man who writes his phone number on lobsters
Trees A Crowd - February 03, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDr Bryce Stewart is a marine ecologist and fisheries biologist, and is currently a lecturer for the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York. His love for marine life began at the age of five, when he decided he wanted to be a “professional holiday man” after a trip to th...
Dr Catherine Barlow: No puffins were harmed in the making of this golden eagle podcast
Trees A Crowd - January 20, 2020 07:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDr Catherine Barlow is project manager of the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project, and previously worked on the ground-breaking Osprey Translocation Project at Rutland Water. This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Open Book in Wigtown, Scotland. Hear how Catherine’s ‘forc...
Mark Carwardine: "Don’t ever french-kiss a Narwhal”... and other words of wisdom
Trees A Crowd - January 03, 2020 17:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsMark Carwardine is a zoologist, leading conservationist, broadcaster and photographer. He came to prominence through his book and BBC documentary series “Last Chance to See” which he created with Douglas Adams of “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” fame. One of Mark’s big passions is diving - ...
Joanna Lentini: Swimming with crocodiles to photograph her fears
Trees A Crowd - December 16, 2019 13:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsJoanna Lentini is an underwater photographer and adventurer. She runs ‘Deep Focus Images’, a company that organises trips for those interested in pursuing wildlife photography. She is also the COO of ocean education organisation ‘Oceans in Focus’. Her accolades include having her work exhibited a...
Victoria Bromley: Producing wildlife documentaries and inspiring the next generation
Trees A Crowd - December 13, 2019 14:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsVictoria Bromley is a wildlife filmmaker and part of the BBC’s natural history unit. She has produced some of their most recognisable programmes, including Spring Watch, Planet Earth Live and Blue Planet II. She’s worked to highlight the plight of the Siberian Tiger and most recently of the littl...
Dr Richard Benwell: Carbon footprints and coots’ feet; the Greenman running in Wantage
Trees A Crowd - November 22, 2019 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDr Richard Benwell is the chief executive of England's largest environmental coalition. He has worked at the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and, most recently, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. In a passionate and expressive intervi...
Dr Jo Elworthy: Living in Eden – how to leave the world better than you found it
Trees A Crowd - November 14, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDr Jo Elworthy is a botanist and the director of interpretation at the Eden Project in Cornwall. She’s been involved with Eden since its inception, and has spent a great deal of time researching plantlife as well as creating books and films specialising in botany and horticulture. A chance encoun...
Sir John Lawton: The wit, wisdom and winged omens of the man who would re-wild Chernobyl
Trees A Crowd - November 04, 2019 09:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsProfessor Sir John Lawton is a fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and chair of the Endangered Landscapes Programme. Previously a trustee of the WWF, head of the Natural Environment Research Council and the most recent chair of the Royal Commission on Environmen...
Sir John Lawton: The wit, wisdom and winged omens of the man who would re-wild Chernobyl
Trees A Crowd - November 04, 2019 09:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsProfessor Sir John Lawton is a fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and chair of the Endangered Landscapes Programme. Previously a trustee of the WWF, head of the Natural Environment Research Council and the most recent chair of the Royal Commission on Environme...
Amanda Owen: Deep in the Dales with the Yorkshire Shepherdess
Trees A Crowd - October 18, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsAmanda Owen is a farmer, known to readers and television viewers worldwide as the ‘Yorkshire Shepherdess’. With her husband Clive and their nine children, she looks after Ravenseat, Swaledale – one of the most exposed farms in the Dales. Alongside running the farm, she has found time to write a n...
The Art of Trees: Live from the Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Woodland Trust
Trees A Crowd - October 10, 2019 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsTrees have captured the imagination of some of Britain’s most important landscape painters, with artists including John Constable and Paul Nash inspired by their diversity of form, character and symbolic significance. Here, in discussion with David in his role as an Ambassador for the Woodland Tr...
Harry Barton: Balancing Wildlife in Devon and a Vision of Natural Justice
Trees A Crowd - October 02, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsHarry Barton is the chief executive of the Devon Wildlife Trust. He has worked for nearly 25 years in the environmental sector, including spells at the Earth Trust, the Council for National Parks, Kew Gardens, CPRE and the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. Amidst extolling the virtues of Devon and it’s n...
Tannis Davidson: Bulletproof elephants, 3D-printing a quagga and cloning thylacines
Trees A Crowd - September 12, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsTannis Davidson is the curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at University College London. From unearthing the dismembered arms of mummies at archaeological digs in Egypt to searching for fossils in Beijing, Tannis has a rich history in researching and examining the stori...
Chris Watson (Part Two): If a podcast is recorded in a forest, and no one is around to hear it…
Trees A Crowd - August 21, 2019 09:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsThis is the second part of the conversation with Chris Watson, following on from the recordings made during the dawn chorus. Chris is a legendary sound recordist and president of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society. He’s worked on a whole host of documentaries, including David Attenborough’s Lif...
Chris Watson (Part One): The winds catching the conifers – and the secrets of the dawn chorus
Trees A Crowd - August 20, 2019 12:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsChris Watson is the president of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society. He’s worked on a range of television and radio documentaries, alongside the likes of Sir David Attenborough. In this serene example of ‘slow radio’, Chris takes David to Stonehaugh, part of the Kielder Forest, in the early hou...
Dr Jess French: Two legs, good – six legs, better! One woman and her many minibeasts
Trees A Crowd - August 09, 2019 12:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDr Jess French is a veterinary surgeon, writer and television presenter. She fronts the CBeebies show Minibeast Adventureand has recently published the book, How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear, both aimed at getting our younger generations excited by the world they have a part share ...
Dr Terry Gough: Sowing seeds in the flowerbeds of Kings and Queens
Trees A Crowd - July 29, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsDr Terry Gough is the head of gardens and estates at Hampton Court Palace. For nearly three decades, he's followed in the footsteps of the likes of Lancelot Capability Brown, and has made the palace look and smell fit for a king. On a private walking tour through the heart of these historic garde...
Rebecca Speight: The Overstory and Understory of the Woodland Trust
Trees A Crowd - July 11, 2019 13:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsRebecca Speight is currently the CEO of the Woodland Trust and will shortly be taking over the reigns of the RSPB. Beccy began her foray into the Natural World to satisfy her “sense of connectivity”. Following years working for the National Trust she was ultimately appointed to her current role i...
Wolfgang Buttress and Dr Martin Bencsik: Hive minds waxing lyrical
Trees A Crowd - June 26, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsWolfgang Buttress is an award-winning artist who creates multi-sensory artworks that draw inspiration from our evolving relationship with nature, and Dr Martin Bencsik is an associate professor in the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University. Together they have become a uni...
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