Podcast Episodes

The Orange-tip

Episode 11 finds us on a bright spring day sitting by a stream with Matthew Oates. Matthew, a remarkable field naturalist and author, has spent his l…

5 years, 1 month ago

The Stockman

Episode 10 finds us in the rewilding project at springtime during our old English longhorn cattle calving season, with Knepp’s splendid stockman, Pat…

5 years, 2 months ago

The Musician

Episode 9 brings us something a little bit different to usual as we meet an incredibly wild musician! Richard Durrant has drawn inspiration from Knep…

5 years, 4 months ago

The Lock-down Round-up

It's Episode 8 and I’m joined by Side-show Dave! We go ringing at a noisy redwing roost in the Wildland scrub, and back at home we enjoy a glass of w…

5 years, 5 months ago

The Fallow Deer

Episode 7 takes us back in time as we learn about fallow deer: what their ancestors would have looked like and how they would have behaved. We also e…

5 years, 6 months ago

The Dung Beetles

Our sixth episode is dedicated to some of the world’s most wonderful ecosystem engineers: dung beetles. As well as being funky little insects they pu…

5 years, 8 months ago

The Purple Emperor

In episode 5 we meet the ebullient Matthew Oates to talk about the inebriated and hedonistic life of His Imperial Majesty, the purple emperor. We tal…

5 years, 9 months ago

The Reptile Tins

During episode four we delve in to the intriguing lives of reptiles and learn more about these fascinating animals at Knepp Wildland. I'm joined by m…

5 years, 10 months ago

The Bee Buckets

In our third episode we investigate a fascinating research project being carried out at Knepp Wildland, which is studying the social behaviour of the…

5 years, 11 months ago

The White Stork

In our second episode we explore the lives of the white storks nesting at Knepp Wildland which have featured on Springwatch this month.

The white stor…

6 years ago