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Jo and Cathy go out to immerse themselves in the sights and sounds of nature at various locations around the British Isles. Join them as they chat about the wildlife around them and listen in to their surroundings.
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Nature Tripping Episode 32 - Climate as a Person
Jo and Cathy meet with Ashar Aslam, a post-doctoral climate researcher at Leeds University who studies tropical storms.They discuss Jo and Ashar’s 2025 collaboration as part of Leeds Cultural…
Nature Tripping Episode 31 - Bryophytes and the Atlantic Rainforest
Bryophyte curious? Join Jo and Cathy in this episode of Nature Tripping for a walk through Hardcastle Crags in Calderdale with bryologist Johnny Turner. It might just look like green stuff but get…
Nature Tripping Episode 30 - Regenerative Farming and Life in the Soil
Jo and Cathy meet Bailey for an introduction to Regenerative Farming and a discussion about the experimental field work he has been doing with the University of Oxford on the impact of different…
Episode 29 - Nature Tripping Goes East
In this episode Cathy and Jo travel east to Poland. Join them along the way as they cross borders and head into the primaeval forests of Bialowieza and the vast marshlands of Biebrza - both complex…
Nature Tripping Episode 28 - Grassland Fungi
Jo and Cathy spend this episode with National Trust project officer and ecologist Steve Hindle on the slopes of Calderdale, in what looks like an ordinary field… but isn’t. They discuss the…
Nature Tripping Episode 27 - The Curlew
If you go up to Calderdale’s rough pasture and moorland during the spring and early summer you might encounter a variety of breeding birds – small ones like meadow pipits and skylarks and larger ones…
Nature Tripping Episode 26 - Sounds from a Hebridean Coast
It’s always a pleasure to hear from our listeners and on occasion people have asked for an episode dedicated purely to nature sounds. This is one such episode. It’s a compilation of ambient field…
Nature Tripping Episode 25 - House Martins
A stone’s throw from the river in Hebden Bridge town centre Jill and Kathryn make a discovery under their eaves: House Martins have arrived. A summer of ups and downs follows and we track events…
Nature Tripping Episode 24 - Rewilding
What does rewilding in the British Isles mean, how do you start it off, and what happens when you do? In this episode we visit the 3000 acre Broughton Hall estate in Yorkshire with Rewilding…
Nature Tripping Episode 23 - Building Resilience
In an episode centred on climate change and community resilience, Jo and Cathy stay in their local town - Todmorden - to chat with Barbara Jones, a pioneer of natural building methods. Sustainable…
Nature Tripping Episode 22- Natterjack Toads
In this episode we visit Gronant and Talacre dunes with Mandy Cartwright from the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust to investigate the only Welsh population of Natterjack Toads, re-introduced…
Nature Tripping Episode 21 - The New Forest
What does the future hold for the ancient trees of the New Forest? Join us inside the Forest, at Denny Wood, for an in-depth discussion with ecologist Adrian Newton and naturalist Lynn Davy. Long…
Nature Tripping Episode 20 - The Mountain Hare
Cathy and Jo join wildlife biologist and hare expert Carlos Bedson on location in the Dark Peak to find out more about the only mountain hares in England. Their ancestors arrived on a train from…
Nature Tripping Episode 19 - The Great Yellow Bumblebee
Join Jo and Cathy for a Gaelic adventure to find out more about one of Britain’s rarest bumblebees – the Great Yellow Bumblebee (Bombus distinguendus). We meet ecologist Janet Bowler on the dunes to…
Nature Tripping Episode 18 - Poetry and Birds in the Industrial Revolution
“Come, summer visitant, attach to my reed roof your nest of clay”. In this episode Jo and Cathy look back to the Victorian era with poetry scholar Clara Dawson. Clara introduces us to poems by…
Nature Tripping Episode 17 - A Shropshire Graveyard
This episode takes Cathy and Jo to Shropshire to explore a church graveyard. Harriet Carty, from the charity Caring for God’s Acre, explains all about these oases of species-rich grassland, and how…
Nature Tripping Episode 16 - Little Woolden Moss
Following on from Episode 15 Jo and Cathy make a return to the peatlands, this time to a lowland raised bog on the outskirts of Manchester and Salford. Little Woolden Moss formed over thousands of…
Nature Tripping Episode 15 - Peat Bogs
Jo and Cathy venture into squelchy upland territory in search of sphagnum moss, a key species of the peat bog. Discovering that a third of the UK was once bog or fenland, and that most has now been…
Nature Tripping Episode 14 - The Corncrake
Jo takes a trip up the west coast to the Inner Hebrides to join Cathy who is helping with the RSPB’s annual corncrake census on the Isle of Tiree. Locating these elusive birds involves listening for…
Nature Tripping Episode 13 - Learning Birdsong in the Coronavirus Lockdown - Part 4
Jo and Cathy resume learning birdsong in lockdown, this time tuning into the calls of the blue tit, great tit and coal tit. With Spring fast approaching, gardens, parks and woods are alive with the…
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Nature Tripping has published 32 episodes since November 2019, covering topics in Nature, Science.
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