Talia Randall’s quest started with a simple question. Who does and who doesn’t have access to nature? But it’s grown into so much more than that. In this final episode, Talia reflects on her own mixed heritage and wonders if she needs a plant p

5. The drowned out voices of climate change

Aug 10th, 2022 48m 24s

On a park bench in the Scottish sun, community organiser Zarina Ahmad talks about her fraught experiences in environmental spaces. Unpicking tricky terms like ‘hard to reach communities’ and ‘behaviour change’, she tells Talia Randall what’s mi

4. How to look at the landscape

Aug 3rd, 2022 47m 3s

Does the violent history of the English countryside fuel a sense of who does and who doesn't feel as if they belong in rural England? And what can be done to make everyone feel more welcome?Talia Randall meets three people who are reclaiming t

3. Who gets to be a nature writer?

Jul 27th, 2022 55m 22s

Talia Randall meets three nature writers who don’t fit the traditional mould. Is nature writing only for old, posh guys, she asks. It might sound like a niche question but it opens up some incredible conversations about the nature of identity a

2. Traveller communities: severed from the land

Jul 20th, 2022 30m 16s

Over a cuppa in a Traveller community on the outskirts of London, Talia Randall chats with Josie O Driscoll, Emma and Joseph about their relationship with nature. Many Traveller communities have been re-located to polluted, hazardous sites. Wha

1. Locked out of Nature

Jul 13th, 2022 40m 35s

When someone described Talia Randall’s council estate as ‘the road with the most burnt-out cars in London’, she was baffled. Why not describe the blossom trees in the front gardens, blushing pink every Spring? Why had they overlooked nature and

Welcome to Blossom Trees and Burnt Out Cars

Jul 11th, 2022 4m 1s

Talia Randall talks to the nature-loving pioneers who are smashing down the barriers–visible and invisible–that keep so many of us locked out of green space. From a park in Glasgow, to a beach in Cornwall and a Traveller site by an A road in Lo

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