Podcast Episodes

How changing weather is putting pressure on Britain’s beekeepers

In this story we speak with Ian Campbell, a beekeeper and spokesperson for the British Beekeepers Association, at his apiary near Newcastle. Ian has been keeping bees for decades, witnessing firsthan…

Published on 8 hours ago

How a village pub is feeling the pressure of floods, rising bills, and climate change

In this story we visit The Royal Oak in Brandon, just outside Coventry, a pub that flooded 12 times during the winter of 2023/24. Owner Khara Schrijvers describes the devastation caused by Storm Henk…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

How a Cornish harbour is using clean engine tech to future proof fishing

In this story we speak with Adrian Bartlett and Dave Stevens at Newlyn Harbour in Cornwall, home to the trawler the Crystal Sea for the past 47 years. Adrian began his fishing career in the mid-1980s…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

How a Devon farm uses silvopasture and wetland creation to help weather climate extremes

In this story we speak with David Thomas and Jason Greenway at Springwater Farm, on the Killerton Estate in Devon. David is a senior land advisor who works on natural flood management (leaky dams, sc…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

How a village’s first flood changed one man’s view on climate change

In this story we hear from Pete Paragreen, a retired electrician and long-time resident of Burstwick, a small village just outside Hull that was hit hard during the devastating 2007 floods. While Pet…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

How a Kilnsea farmer came to terms with the sea taking his land

In this story we speak with Andrew Wells, a retired dairy farmer who now runs a B&B in Kilnsea, a small village teetering on the edge of the Holderness coast. Kilnsea is about 20 minutes down the roa…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

How improving public health and combating climate change are the same issue

In this story we hear from Dr Munro Stewart, a GP in Dundee. He works in a busy medical practice which covers a mixture of areas, some with serious deprivation and some more affluent. We walked aroun…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

How repeated flooding has shaped one family across generations

In this story we hear from Alister Haywood, who shares her harrowing experience of living through three devastating floods - twice as a child, and again as a mother during the catastrophic 2007 flood…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

How introducing beavers and slowing the flow of rivers reduces flood risk

In this story we speak with Mike Potter in Pickering, a market town in North Yorkshire which was flooded four times in eight years between 1999 and 2007. The final flood caused an estimated £7 millio…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

The school students losing land to rapid coastal erosion

Sarah Harris-Smith and three of her students at Withernsea High School describe the impacts of the rapidly changing coastline on their future.

In this story we speak with Sarah Harris-Smith - a geogra…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago