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Crisis Talks
Get Birding - August 24, 2023 02:18 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe UK is nature-depleted and degraded, and the globe is living through climate crisis. How can we get where we need to be, empowered and living as part of a flourishing ecosystem? As Get Birding closes its third series, Kwesia learns about the citizen's assembly that created the People's Plan ...
Music Of The Skies
Get Birding - August 10, 2023 01:32 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCan paying attention to birdsong improve our music-making skills? And why do birds sing anyway? Indie artist Albertine Sarges reveals how birdwatching in a Berlin park made her a better musician (and friend!) Professor of philosophy & music David Rothenberg goes out in the world to improvise w...
Safety In Nature
Get Birding - July 27, 2023 01:18 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhy is the outdoors so often still seen as a male realm? How can women feel protected and at ease when out in nature? What are the risks when birding alone, and how should we mitigate them? Kwesia aka City Girl In Nature finds out ... BBC Springwatch naturalist Lucy Lapwing details a horrible i...
Words & Birds
Get Birding - July 13, 2023 01:34 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIconic actor Alison Steadman and bestselling author Jonathan Franzen talk about how a love of birds inspires creativity. Meanwhile host Kwesia aka City Girl In Nature delivers some nature-inspired spoken word poetry. Get Birding believes that access to nature is a universal right, not a privil...
Nesting
Get Birding - June 29, 2023 02:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs well as being a podcast presenter & wildlife ambassador, Kwesia aka City Girl In Nature is a new mother & qualified doula. In this episode she asks what we can learn about parenting by observing birds with their chicks. Nathalie Mahieu shows how to spot Peregrine Falcons nesting in the heart...
City Girl In Nature
Get Birding - June 15, 2023 05:15 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsGet Birding returns for another series, making birdwatching & nature accessible for all. Your new host is the inspirational Kwesia aka City Girl In Nature. Episode 1 finds Kwesia exploring busy, bustling London, in search of emotional wellbeing, nature, and feathered friends. What better first...
S3! Coming Soon!
Get Birding - May 25, 2023 06:15 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsGet Birding is back! Following in the footsteps of Dr Mya-Rose Craig & Hamza Yassin, our host for Series 3 is the brilliant Kwesia aka City Girl In Nature. Get Birding is a Peanut & Crumb production. Series 3 is sponsored by Canada Water. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
Get Birding's RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch Special: Chris Packham, Samuel West, Miranda Krestovnikoff , Dr Amir Khan, Sam Lee & Edwyn Collins
Get Birding - January 28, 2022 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn this special one-off episode featuring a host of voices, Get Birding celebrates the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch 2022 in collaboration with the charity for their annual citizen science event. Presenter Hamza Yassin encourages anyone in the UK to spend an hour spotting birds in their local par...
Series 2: Episode 6 - Adrian Thomas, Kim Wallace and Chad Crouch
Get Birding - December 17, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBeing in lockdown has unleashed our love for nature. Get Birding is a podcast for budding birdwatchers and aims to help everyone, anywhere, discover more about the birds on our doorsteps. We want to break down barriers to birdwatching and believe that access to nature should be a right, not a pr...
Series 2: Episode 5 - Ajay Tegala, Duncan Halpin and Martin Noble
Get Birding - December 03, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHamza lives in the west coast of Scotland by the sea and has a small brackish loch just yards from his house. He’s surrounded by birds of many different kinds. But water attracts birds in whatever environment you live in, from your local pond, to a puddle at the side of a busy street. This week ...
Series 2: Episode 4 - Rachel Ball, Charlotte Levene and Charles Foster
Get Birding - November 19, 2021 06:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBeing in lockdown has unleashed our love for nature. Get Birding is a podcast for budding birdwatchers and aims to help everyone, anywhere, discover more about the birds on our doorsteps. We want to break down barriers to birdwatching and believe that access to nature should be a right, not a pr...
Series 2: Episode 3 - Ben McCarthy, Alys Laver and Yetunde Kehinde
Get Birding - November 05, 2021 06:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWith the COP conference happening this week in Glasgow, we are thinking about the environment. Climate change affects every living thing in this world and of course birds are no exception. In this episode Hamza speaks to his guests about the things they are noticing changing and looks to the fut...
Series 2: Episode 2 - Gabriel Willow, Adrian Thomas, James Taylor Foster
Get Birding - October 22, 2021 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHamza was born in Sudan and grew up Northampton before moving to his current home in the west coast of Scotland. He's now surrounded by a plethora of bird life, but this has always been the case. In this episode of Get Birding Hamza explores birding as part of the built environment from how natu...
Series 2: Episode 1 - Dr Mya-Rose Craig, Poppy Rummery
Get Birding - October 08, 2021 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn the first episode of series two, our new host - ornithologist and BBC Countryfile’s Hamza Yassin - talks to series one’s presenter, environmental campaigner Dr Mya-Rose Craig, about their shared love of birds. The appearance of a rare black browed albatross this year was one of the hot birdi...
Series 1: Episode 6 - Emma Kennedy, Yetunde Kehinde, Kate Fox, El Búho
Get Birding - April 08, 2021 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAs lockdown restrictions start to ease, Mya-Rose Craig explores how we can expand our birding horizons from our back gardens and regular walks to further afield, paying a visit to the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust’s Slimbridge reserve in Gloucestershire which will reopen soon. Writer, broadcaster an...
Series 1: Episode 5 - Ajay Tegala, Lucy Lapwing, Ben Dolan, Afro Celt Sound System
Get Birding - March 26, 2021 00:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe birds in our skies are about to change. Spring marks the start of migration, with birds flying thousands of miles across the world. It's a magical, mysterious wonder of nature that has fascinated us for centuries. In this episode Mya-Rose Craig discovers why bird migration happens; learns a...
Series 1: Episode 4 - Samuel West, Lucy Lapwing, Sam Lee
Get Birding - March 12, 2021 00:12 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDuring lockdown, we've become more aware of birdsong but can we recognise the birds we're hearing? In this episode, Mya-Rose Craig explores how to identify different birds, from robins to wrens to blackbirds; why birds sing; what a dawn chorus is all about; and how birdsong makes us feel. Acto...
Series 1: Episode 3 - Dr Amir Khan, Dr Jo Birch, Ian Jelley, Northern Flyway
Get Birding - February 26, 2021 07:15 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis episode focuses on the powerful impact of birds on our mental health, particularly during lockdown. With heartbreaking honesty, TV’s favourite GP Dr Amir Khan reveals how birds have helped him through the daily stress of working on the front line over the pandemic. Dr Amir explains the ...
Series 1: Episode 2 - Susan Calman, Dr Amir Khan, Fyfe Dangerfield
Get Birding - February 12, 2021 00:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMya-Rose Craig speaks to presenter, comedian and avid birder Susan Calman about her life changing obsession with her garden bird feeder, and how her feathered friends have brought her calm and relaxation. To mark National Nest Box Week, TV doctor and nature ambassador Dr Amir Khan offers practi...
Series 1: Episode 1 - Chris Packham, Jason Singh
Get Birding - January 29, 2021 00:01 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMya-Rose Craig talks to BBC nature presenter Chris Packham about the magic of birdwatching, the need for diversity in nature, his Bird To Watch and the annual RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend - the biggest citizen science project in the UK. Nature beatboxer, composer and sound artist Jason...
Get Birding - Trailer
Get Birding - January 28, 2021 09:42 - 56 seconds ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBeing in lockdown has unleashed our love for nature. Goats taking ownership of our streets, deer sleeping on town commons, birds and their song reclaiming our soundscape - a full wildlife drama happening every day in our gardens, streets and countryside for us all to watch. Many of us want to ...
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