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Wild Tales | Nature PodcastThe Queer Life of a CockchaferHow did two beetles cause a gay panic? There's much more to a cockchafer or ‘maybug’ than meets the eye.
Join ecologist, Connor Butler, to find out more about what these charismatic creatures can teach us about science, humanity and the fluidity of the natural world.
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You can find out more about Connor’s work and the queer ecology walks here: https://www.connorbutler.co.uk/
To visit Osterley Park and House and gardens, or to find out more about its spectacular grounds, find out more here: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/lond...2025-06-1814 min
Wild Tales | Nature PodcastChris Packham | Spring, Birding and Pied FlycatchersWild Talk: In this bonus episode Ajay chats with wildlife legend Chris Packham about their shared love of birds.
After 3 weeks of filming Springwatch at the Longshaw Estate, Ajay wants to hear more about the stunning cast of characters on this year's show.
In particular, the black and white birds that choose to spend their summer here: the migrant pied flycatchers.
Ajay meets Chris for a walk on the Springwatch set where they share their passion for birds, birding and what we must do to help wildlife.
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Host: Ajay Tegala
Produc...2025-06-1312 min
Wild Tales | Nature PodcastBird Accents | Saving Urban BirdsongWhen Ajay Tegala discovers that chaffinches, a small songbird, have a different accent every 30 miles, he’s intrigued.
However, under threat from disease these birds are dying out in urban areas, and their unique urban songs may be lost for ever. But all is not lost. There's a way to find out how this disease is spreading...by recording their song.
Follow Ajay and ecologist and UKYouth4Nature advocate Şeniz Mustafa as they search for this disappearing birdsong.
To send Joe a chaffinch recording:
Identify a chaffinch. You can use apps like Merlin to help you make...2025-05-0721 min
Wild Tales | Nature PodcastDolphin Social Networks | Mothers, Besties and BodyguardsBeneath the waves of West Wales lies a complicated network of relationships that determines not only who’s belly rolling who, but which calf survives.
Join Katrin Lohrengel and her team at Sea Watch to search for one of the ocean's most loved and misunderstood creatures: bottlenose dolphins.
For the Welsh transcript of this episode please click here.
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Wild Tales | Nature PodcastThe Elusive Leaping Shark | Searching for Cryptic CreaturesJoin Ranger Rosie Holdsworth to uncover the mystery of the leaping shark.
On a boat off Cornwall, wildlife guide Jenny spots a huge animal she’s never seen before jumping out of the water. But what exactly has she witnessed?
Across the world in Florida, shark-obsessed Dr Molly Kressler sets off on a mission to discover more about what is beneath the calm of the surface. More than that, she wants everyone else to be able to get to know and love creatures of the deep too.
[Ad] Wild Tales is sponsored by Cotswold Outdoor...2025-03-2614 min
The Quilt8 | The WaveCornwall has a long history of drawing artistic types, for the space, the light, and the rhythm of the waves. In this final episode of The Quilt, Tash travels to the South West for a personal exploration of how queer creatives especially have been inspired in the region. They meet Veronica the queer pirate created by artist Scamp Niemz and queer historian Sophie Meyer, sing sea shanties with artist Rhys Morgan of Seaweed in the Fruit Locker, spend a night in the old home of the poet Charles Causley, and speak to Eirian Pascoe-Jones, one of t...2024-12-311h 04The Quilt7 | The VoiceRhaid newid popeth medd hoywon a lesbiaid!How can you describe your desires and sense of yourself when they don’t seem to fit with the language you use?In this episode Adam travels to South Wales to meet Dafydd Frayling, a pioneering activist who disrupted arts festivals and radio broadcasts in the 80s to show how Welsh speakers needed new words so they could make queer people feel more included. He also meets young queer writers today, Leo Drayton and Nia Morais, who are making work about their identities and using Welsh in...2024-12-2457 minThe Quilt6 | The HiddenNorthern Ireland’s intriguing queer history draws Tash to Belfast. In exploring stories that are often kept out of view, Tash hears tales of jailed men, a pioneering community helpline, and intersex experience. They speak to Michael Lawrence, a historian looking into the prison records of men who were convicted of buggery, and digs into the archive of charity Cara-Friend looking back over the letters people sent across its long and heartwarming history with Community Development Manager Adam Murray. The final patches added to our quilt in this episode are stitched by Hannah who shares her lif...2024-12-171h 08The Quilt5 | The CommunityPeople have moved to The Midlands from all over the world — so how has this migration shaped the region’s queer community?In this episode, Adam meets Ranjit Khutan who tells the story of his parents moving to England from India, and how they raised him with a community spirit. This led him to run the first support group for South Asian men who have sex with men in Birmingham in the 1990s, and do pioneering work in sexual health. Bursting out into Birmingham’s Gay Village at the same time was the drag queen Seema Butt...2024-12-1048 minThe Quilt4 | The PrideIf the world has made it hard for your community to keep going, how do you still find the pride?In this episode, Tash travels to the northeast of England, to the old mining town of Stanley in County Durham. They hear about the history of mining and shipbuilding, and what the wake of those industries has meant for queer people living there. There are stories from Sharon McIlvaney, who reflects on her own upbringing as a bisexual woman who now runs a local queer community youth group called Freedom Zone. Tash meets two of the...2024-12-0346 minThe Quilt3 | The MissingScottish history is laden with the sense of loss, from the Highland clearances to... Glasgow’s lesbian bars that closed down in the 1990s!In this episode, Adam takes a tour of those voided queer spaces with one of their old disco dykes, Natalie Wilson. He also hears from archivist Mel Reeve about the missing queer and bisexual elders from our collective past, and Rob Crawford, who reflects on the decades he lost due to gay shame. Finally he heard the story of Reach Out Highland, a trans-inclusive sexual health organisation from the 1990s, from Julia Go...2024-11-261h 05The Quilt2 | The FaithThe northwest of England is famous for progressive thinking, from women’s liberation to power for the working classes. In this episode, Tash meets some of the folks who are bringing this forward-thinking towards faith and spirituality. From Adelaide Harris and the pioneering church of St James and Emmanuel in Didsbury Village, to Saha (Surabhi Kandaswamy), a trans woman who moved to the UK from Southern India and feels connected to her ancestry and queerness through the birds, butterflies and old ruins found in Williamson Park, Preston.Their powerful ways of thinking about the...2024-11-1944 minThe Quilt1 | The UnravellingThe city of Norwich, in East Anglia, has a history of welcoming strangers and people who are a bit different.In this episode, Adam meets some of Norfolk’s wonderful misfits. From Serena James, an older trans woman who discovered a remarkable photograph from the 1960s, to Steve Peck, who bought a shirt 40 years ago on a memorable holiday. Finally there’s Beau Brannick and Alice Bigsby-Bye, who brought together a whole community to make a gorgeous (and now famous) quilt. He’s also given a local history tour by Adam Baker from Queer Norfolk....2024-11-1252 minThe QuiltIntroducing... The QuiltFrom the producers of the award-winning podcast The Log Books, The Quilt is a new queer history podcast featuring untold stories that are rooted all around the UK.In this short intro episode, hosts Tash Walker and Adam Zmith head back into the studio to plan the new series. We’ve partnered with Queer Britain, the UK’s first LGBTQ+ museum, to travel around the UK collecting intriguing, moving, and deeply important stories from the queer family.Hit follow or subscribe now to hear the first full episode when it lands... coming soon!2024-11-0405 min
Sing It Pink8 | Homemade Musical Hope MachineThe Pink Singers have reached the crescendo: their 40th anniversary gala performance!In this episode, Ev Callahan, the choir's new artistic director, goes backstage to find the pre-concert nerves on the eve of their birthday gala. Ev also travels back in time to the beginnings of the Pinkies, to tell the previously untold story of its co-creator Brian Kennedy. The series draws to a close at the rousing gala concert and a look forward to the future of this unique LGBTQ+ choir.Sing it Pink! is an Aunt Nell production for the Pink...2024-09-2038 minSing It Pink7 | Chosen FamilyAs the Pinkies prepare for their 40th Gala performance, they take the opportunity to look at something the choir has always had in abundance: love. In this episode, Mills Dyer looks at how relationships have formed in the choir and how they’ve created harmonies and the occasional wrong note. From family to wife-swaps, from love to friendship, the Pinkies are forging new ways of living and loving.Sing it Pink! is an Aunt Nell production for the Pink Singers. You can find out more about the Pink Singers at https://www.pinksingers.co...2024-09-0637 minSing It Pink6 | I Am What I AmMusic and song is something that transcends sexuality and gender, but society hasn’t always seen it that way. The Pink Singers are on a mission to change that, but have they always been that way? In this episode, Josi, a Pinkie performance poet who transitioned in their sixties, guides us through the history of choir members who go beyond the binary. Drawing on her own experience as a trans woman and police detective, she takes us through how voice parts aren’t the only thing that’s changed within the choir.Sing it Pink...2024-08-3036 minSing It Pink5 | Change The World!From Finnish saunas to the streets of Mumbai, the Pink Singers have gone global. In this episode, Hsien Chew, founder of Proud Voices Asia, takes us on a tour through time and space with the Pink Singers. Taking us back to European choirs rallying behind the Pink Singers as Section 28 came into force, to activism through songs and protest across the world today. Sing it Pink! is an Aunt Nell production for the Pink Singers. You can find out more about the Pink Singers at https://www.pinksingers.co.uk/ or...2024-08-2338 minSing It Pink4 | Fascinating RhythmThe Pink Singers are the oldest LGBTQ+ choir in Europe (if you’re to believe there’s ever been a heterosexual choir), but what makes up a choir? In this episode, Olivia Doust, a singing teacher by day, Pinkie by night, looks at the music that has made the Pink Singers sing, and how it’s been shaped by the treatment of LGBTQ+ people in society. But with their current musical director, Murray, leaving, and having only ever had cis male musical directors, will the music change tempo?Sing it Pink...2024-08-1631 minSing It Pink3 | Leaping LesbiansAs the Pink Singers belt out songs from the roof of Broadcasting House, they make a vital call: We need more lesbians. In this episode, Ali Milton-Doyle, a Pinkie who met their wife in the choir, investigates why it is so hard finding the early women of the Pink Singers, and how the experiences of her fellow femme Pinkies has changed with separatism, Section 28 and song. Sing it Pink! is an Aunt Nell production for the Pink Singers. You can find out more about the Pink Singers at https://w...2024-08-0939 minSing It Pink2 | Safer SexThe Pink Singers are taking off, performing, partying and fighting for LGBTQ+ rights. But soon they are hit by one of the greatest threats to LGBTQ+ people: the AIDS crisis. In this episode, Philip Rescorla, one of the choir’s oldest members, remembers how the choir experienced HIV, through the hospice visits, the friends he lost, and the songs that lifted their spirits even in the darkest days.Sing it Pink! is an Aunt Nell production for the Pink Singers. You can find out more about the Pink Singers at https://www.pinksingers.co...2024-08-0241 minSing It Pink1 | Homosexual, Homosexual, Lesbian, LesbianIt’s 1983, and Mark Bunyan is making a splash on the cabaret scene in London. Inspired by gay activist Brian Kennedy, Mark advertises for singers who want to join an LGBTQ+ choir. But it’s a time of homophobia and shame, so will anyone turn up to the first rehearsal?In this episode, Cassian Fagilde, one of today's youngest Pink Singers, looks back at the choir’s origin story: how did an LGBTQ+ activist and a cabaret performer make a choir that has survived for 40 years? Who were the folks who turned up to that first rehear...2024-07-2634 min
Mind the Gap: The Official TfL PodcastNaming the Overground: The Mildmay lineTim Dunn starts his journey across the London Overground map to uncover the incredible stories behind the six new line names.In this first episode, Tim travels to a hospital that Princess Diana visited 17 time: the Mildmay, a small but crucial charitable NHS hospital with a long history of helping Londoners in need, from the cholera outbreak in 1866 to supporting and treating patients affected by HIV and AIDS.The Mildmay line journeyTim meet former patient, campaigner and AIDS survivor Jason Reid, who tells his story of becoming seriously ill with AIDS in t...2024-07-1626 min
A Life More WildLira Valencia on barriers to inclusivity, common terns and “London dolphins”Lira Valencia grew up in Croydon, surrounded by the kind of urban sprawl that keeps the natural world at a distance. However, thanks mostly to the snails in her grandma’s garden, she developed a passion for nature and forged a path to a career in the overwhelmingly white world of conservation. We join her for a walk around Walthamstow wetlands, where she’s a ranger who helps preserve the habitat and encourage others to enjoy it.Follow Lira on Instagram to see what she spots outside as the seasons turn, or ourselves to see us working on t...2024-06-2022 min
A Life More WildAlastair Humphreys on building adventure into your life wherever you liveAlastair Humphreys spent four years cycling round the world. He’s rowed across the Atlantic, run a marathon in the Sahara and taken part in an expedition to the arctic. But we’ve caught up with him on an industrial estate on the edge of the city, to talk microadventures and the power of thinking small.See more of what Alastair's been up to or follow us on Instagram to see us out and about working on the podcast and discovering great new places.A Life More Wild is an 18Sixty production, brought to you by C...2024-06-0622 min
DwellingCall for Stories - Dwelling Series 2Hello Dwelling listeners! Thank you so much to everyone who listened to the first series, the response has been incredible. We are coming back for a second series, and this time, we want to hear from you. If you have a story of home that you want to share email marniewoodmeade@gmail.com or dm me on instagram @marnie.wm.
If you're a renter, a homeowner, you live in social housing or just want to chat about housing I want to hear your stories. 2024-05-0100 min
Mind the Gap: The Official TfL PodcastRylan Home for ChristmasJoin TV Presenter and Broadcaster Rylan on the ultimate Christmas commute! Tim Dunn gets special permission to take Rylan on a ride in the driver’s cab on a Central line Train, all the way from Oxford Circus to Epping. You may not know, but Rylan is a self-confessed Tube obsessive, and cannot hold back his excitement. He tells Tim about how he fell in love with the Tube in his childhood, the Tube station he's built in his garage, what the London Underground means to him and how it's shaped his life. Rylan and Tim get an incredible vi...2023-12-2228 min
Mind the Gap: The Official TfL PodcastConnecting People and Places through London’s beating heartLike the Tube itself, Amy Lamé is a London icon and legend - and she asks Tim to meet her at one of London’s busiest stations for nightlife, Tottenham Court Road, to talk about her role with the Mayor of London as ‘Night Czar’. What does that mean - and how important has the night tube been for London’s communities and businesses, including Amy’s famous club nights?For 160 years, the London Underground has been connecting people and places in so many ways, but a shared love for everything about the system has created a community i...2023-12-1829 min
Mind the Gap: The Official TfL PodcastHidden Heroes and Ingenious Innovations that keep London movingAll aboard the newly refurbished Central line trains! Join Tim Dunn as he catches an exclusive first-ever ride to see the results of the biggest upgrade programme in the Tube’s history. Joining him is special guest Paul Marchant, the man behind the Central line’s new seating fabric and fascinating patterns (know as the moquette). That’s just one small part of an enormous programme of investment and upgrades on the Central line, that has seen years of work and planning go into new engines, new CCTV, and a long list of multiple system upgrades. Tim then takes you be...2023-12-1829 min
Mind the Gap: The Official TfL PodcastIconic Design and Amazing Architecture deep under London's streetsIn this first episode, Tim Dunn navigates the many tunnels and architectural wonders of Bank station during a chat with the ‘Tubemapper’ Luke Agbaimoni, the man whose passion for taking photos on the Underground is propelling him to capture images of every station on the Tube map. After a quick trip on the Central line to Shepherd’s Bush station, Tim then sits down with world famous designer Wayne Hemingway, who created the London Underground staff uniforms, and who discusses his love of incredible design on the Tube. It’s then back into the heart of London for a tour of...2023-12-1833 min
A Life More WildMike Duxbury on life as a blind farmer, pig coughs and goose cuddlesDespite having a passion for animals and farming, Mike Duxbury received only one offer from all the agricultural colleges he applied to. The rest dismissed him instantly because he was blind. After graduating with an impressive array of qualifications, he became an accessibility consultant in London, but his heart was always with the land. He decided that rather than telling people how to run an inclusive business, he would show them instead.Join Mike now on Inclusive Farm, the working farm in Bedfordshire that he designed and built himself, as he describes his mission to welcome students...2023-09-1419 min
A Life More WildKatherine May on disappearing shipwrecks, the rhythm of walking and why we should all love winterA few years ago, a walk on the south west coastal path opened Katharine May up to a whole new world. She began to think about reconnecting with nature, and how it was the antidote to everything from anxiety to writer’s block. She even shaped her best selling book, Wintering, around the elements. Join Katherine now on the seafront in Whitstable, as she talks about inspiration, how much she would like to buy a beach hut, and why we should all love winter. A Life More Wild is an 18...2023-08-0320 min
A Life More WildLiv Little on creativity, loss and grounding herself by the seaLiv Little often found herself asked to speak on behalf of all marginalised voices, as the only person of colour in the room… so she decided to build her own room. She founded Gal Dem magazine, a place and community where anyone could talk not just about their trauma, but about their joys and passions. It was the creation of a home that helped and inspired many people over the eight years for which it ran. She then took that search spiritual, emotional home as the theme for her debut novel, Rosewater.Join Liv no...2023-06-2220 minDwellingHousing co-ops, community and the future?With the future of home uncertain, co-ops are the mythical unicorn of an answer. But what is home like there, and can it be replicated on a wider scale?
Voices include Levent Karimol, Sim, Iain Tuckett and other anonymous contributors.
Produced and presented by Marnie Woodmeade
2023-03-2734 minDwellingEel Pie island, hippies and rock’n’rollA small island in Twickenham, once only accessible by boat turned into one of the greatest music venues of the 70s and then the largest commune in England. Can anarchy create home?
Voices include Robin Hunter, Canadian Chris and Weed.
Produced and presented by Marnie Woodmeade
Music: Excerpts from Moon River
Mons Jacet - Chanting Waves
Spider Bags - El Rock and Roll
Paul Collins Beat - Rock and Roll Girl
Thank you to Aboena House and Albert Potrony for letting me use clips from Another Utopia, you can...2023-03-2033 minDwellingRoma, poets and storytellersYou can’t tell the history of nomadism and home without speaking to Roma communities. This episode explores how family and community have created homes, whether nomadic or static, in the face of appalling discrimination.
Voices include Gemma Lees, Rosamaria Kostic Cisneros, Millie Cooper and Richard O'Neill.
Dramaturgy and consultancy by Alessandra Davison
Music: Hometime and Long Way Home by Mirco Altenbach
Tangos de Granada by Ventanas
Special thanks to London Gypsies and Travellers
2023-03-1330 minDwellingVehicle dwellers, vanlife and the open roadThe boom of vanlife has often meant vans are presented as a ‘nomadic dream’. But what is it really like for vehicle dwellers?
Voices include Adam, Shannon Lawford, Robin and Finn.
Produced and voiced by Marnie Woodmeade
Cover art by Marnie Cox
Powered by Transmission Roundhouse2023-03-0630 minDwellingBoats, nature and river guardianshipBoats are booming, as more and more people take to the rivers and canals. But what does this mean for the waterways they call home?
Voices include Maddie, Colin from National Bargee Travellers Association and Paul Powlesland.
Produced and hosted by Marnie Woodmeade
Cover art by Marnie Cox
Powered by Transmission Roundhouse2023-03-0631 minDwellingSquats, protest and Olive MorrisSquats have been demonised by the media, but how have empty buildings supported the feminist, environmental and black power movement?
Voices include Hollis from the Advisory Service of Squatters, Ross and other anonymous contributors. Special thanks to Lambeth Archives for the permission to use the archives of Remembering Olive Morris.
Produced and hosted by Marnie Woodmeade
Cover art by Marnie Cox
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2023-03-0630 minDwellingWelcome to DwellingWhen you think of home, what do you think of? In the face of a housing crisis with home becoming harder to find, meet the people who are seeking alternatives.
Brand new series dropping 6th of March2023-02-1701 min
BILT BroadcastEpisode 22: Student Fellows Takeover - Online learning during the pandemicOur Student Fellows (Owen Barlow, Emily Kinder, Toby Roberts and Marnie Woodmeade) discuss their experience of online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic and how they've been affected.2020-05-1437 min