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Girl ProfsProfessor Lynne BoddyGirl Profs, the podcast that celebrates the work and explores the careers of women professors.
2026-01-0936 min
Atomic WitchcraftEp. #155 Full Moon Focus: Moss & Mushroom - Digging In🌕 Episode #155: This Full Moon Focus dives deep into the topic of this lunar cycle, with Moss & Mushrooms: Digging In. We start with a little Witchcraft 101, talking Grimoires and spell books including the various names, content, and styles.🍄 From there we’ll dive into the journey of Alyssa’s Moss & Mushrooms, where she tells us more about the lessons of this green witch path. From creating a moss terrarium to growing her own mushrooms, this episode is truly about digging in. Resources & References:IG creator: Worchester TerrariumsGathering Moss by Robin Wall...
2025-11-3038 min
The Meaning of Trees PodcastFungal Ecologist - Professor Lynne Boddy - E36Lynne Boddy is Professor of Mycology at Cardiff University and has been a true pioneer in progressing our knowledge of much maligned but essential tree and forest fungal communities for the past 50 years.Tom and Lynne discuss some of the strangest and rarest fungi hiding in our woods, why the Wood Wide Web concept definitely needs more work and dive deep into the unsexy world of rot and wood decay.Check out Lynne’s brilliant videos on wood decay and tree fungi as part of Ancient Tree Forum’s VETcert course resources here: https://www.anci...
2025-08-1044 min
bobcastBOBCAST MAY 2025'It must be so'SĂ©rgio Mendes, George Carlin, Maighread & TrĂona NĂ Dhomhnaill, Viviane Audet, Martin Parr, Willy Chirino, Sly & The Family Stone, Julia Galef, Zager & Evans, Lisa O'Neil, Kazou Ishiguro, David Byrne & Balanescu Quartet, Lynne Boddy, RubĂ©n González
2025-05-0144 min
Dark Side of the LibraryDark Non-Fiction Books Coming Out January 2024Dark Side of the Library Podcast Episode #169: Dark Non-Fiction Books Coming Out January 2024 (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) The Broke Witch: Magick Spells and Powerful Potions that Use What You Can Grow, Find, or Already Have, by Deborah Castellano (Jan 23) https://amzn.to/3FH4yWb  The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
2024-01-2422 min
Tree Lady TalksProfessor Lynne Boddy talks FungiSend us a textLynne Boddy is Professor of Fungal Ecology at Cardiff University UK. She has taught and researched into the ecology of fungi associated with trees and wood decomposition for 45 years. Her research focuses on understanding how fungal mycelia behave in the natural world, climate change effects on fungi, antagonistic interactions between fungi, and development of fungal communities in wood. She is currently studying the fascinating communities of fungi and other organisms that rot the centres of old trees. She is a prolific author having co-authored “Fungal Decomposition of Wood” and “The Fungi”, her most recent...
2024-01-171h 06
The Mushroom Hour PodcastEp. 124: Ali the Fungi Guy - Mushrooms, Joy & Wellbeing (feat. Ali McKernan)Today we are blessed by the presence of Ali McKernan, a self-professed Mycophile who is also known as 'The Fungi Guy' on Instagram and Youtube. Ali is a mushroom educator who uses humor and enthusiasm to get the message of the mushrooms to the masses. He was a member of the Education and Outreach Committee for the British Mycological Society and has helped to organize and promote UK Fungus Day among other outreach programs. Alongside his work with organizations like BMS, Ali makes “daft” Youtube and Instagram videos showcasing his fungal finds and organizes Fungi ID walks in his loca...
2022-05-301h 23
About The AdventureStella Bolam - I was scared and excited at the same timeIn this episode, Sarah interviews Stella Bolam, who has switched from a long-term career in communications and writing to join the wonderful world of tree care and science, working in Community Forestry. Stella shares why she began reflecting on what to do with the rest of her career, how she found the courage to explore a new path, and what life has been like since she started taking the first steps. Here’s the full list of questions that Sarah asked Stella:Why did you start reflecting on what you want to do with the...
2022-05-071h 07
Women of Science & Music: 30 celebrationsWomen of Science & Music: 30 celebrations - Episode 20: A Famous Mycologisthttps://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) Mycologist and AuthorWe all love Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin and others - but author and illustrator, Beatrix Potter, was also a scientist who made important discoveries. In her early years, she was passionately interested in mycology, studying fungi (mushrooms) and ferns with the help of a Scottish Postman!!! She was not treated well by some men scientists so she stopped her studies - a loss to mycology but a gain for children’s literature and conservation, as the money earned from her books allowed Beatrix Potter to le...
2021-07-2815 min
Blues From The Ouse – UK Blues Podcast & Radio Show | Classic & Modern Blues#59 Blues From The Ouse on Jorvik Radio with Paul Winn & Ben Darwin 19.08.20 (Top 10 Albums of 2020 and more)Featuring:-Five Points Gang - What Kind Of Man - Five Points Gang EPNo 10 - Leon Gill - Welcome Back Delta - Master Of NoneThe Terraplanes - Midnight Train - Midnight Train EPNo 9 - The Jujubes - It Hurts Me Too - Where Are We NowPaul Boddy & The Slidewinder Blues Band - Over The Hump - Friends Of TuesdayTom Killner - When Love Comes For You - The Church House SessionsBen Rice & RB Stone - Jesus Needs A...
2020-12-311h 46
Blues From The Ouse with Paul Winn, Ben Darwin and Angie Howe.#59 Blues From The Ouse on Jorvik Radio with Paul Winn & Ben Darwin 19.08.20 (Top 10 Albums of 2020 and more)Featuring:-Five Points Gang - What Kind Of Man - Five Points Gang EPNo 10 - Leon Gill - Welcome Back Delta - Master Of NoneThe Terraplanes - Midnight Train - Midnight Train EPNo 9 - The Jujubes - It Hurts Me Too - Where Are We NowPaul Boddy & The Slidewinder Blues Band - Over The Hump - Friends Of TuesdayTom Killner - When Love Comes For You - The Church House SessionsBen Rice & RB Stone - Jesus Needs A Gig - Out Of The BoxNo 8 - Sir Rod & The Blues Doctors - Seventh Avenue - Come TogetherAmanda Jane Heywood - Walk...
2020-12-311h 46
Curious CasesThe Good and Bad in Fungi"Why are some fungi helpful and others harmful?" asks Paul Glaister in Reading. Rutherford and Fry try to outdo each other with fungal top trumps to get to grips with the answer.Decomposition ecologist Lynne Boddy, Professor of Microbial Ecology at Cardiff University, helps Hannah calculate the amount of dead plant material we’d be buried in across the globe, if we didn’t have fungi to recycle it. And she describes her first fungal encounter in her student flat which was riddled with dry rot, and explains how without fungi, we wouldn’t have plants.On A...
2020-12-2248 min
The Biodiversity Podcast by TeaselsEpisode 2- The Tree Lady (Sharon Durdant - Hollamby-)- Sharon Hosegood Associates Ltd.On this podcast, myself and Sharon discuss the importance of using a registered Arboricultural consultant on developments and we also  discuss the importance of Biodiversity of life in soils.Â
Sharon's bio and the links mentioned in the podcast can be found below.
Sharon Durdant-Hollamby, MD (FICFor FArborA BSc (Hons) Tech Cert Arbor A)
Vice-President of the Institute of Chartered Foresters, a Chartered Arboriculturist, and an Expert Witness, Sharon’s specialties are trees and construction, protected trees, tree root investigations, and trees and well-being (including community engagement). Sharon brings thirteen years experience as a loca...
2020-11-3031 minThe Mushroom Hour PodcastEp. 56: Wood-Decomposer Fungi & Mycelium Network Architecture (feat. Professor Lynne Boddy)Today on Mushroom Hour we are joined by the distinguished Lynne Boddy, Professor of Microbial Ecology at Cardiff University. After undergraduate studies in Biology and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Exeter, she was interested in any and every type of ecology. A fortuitous position at the University of London led her to studying wood decay processes, which would turn out to be the subject of her PhD. That work snowballed into a 40-year exploration of wood decay processes with fungi at its core. As well as scientifically challenging and environmentally of massive consequences, mycelia and their interactions have...
2020-11-301h 19
Blues From The Ouse – UK Blues Podcast & Radio Show | Classic & Modern Blues#143 The Blues Hour with Paul WinnFeaturing:-Joe Bonamassa - High Class GirlPaul Boddy & The Slidewinder Blues Band - Knock My BootsTyler Morris - Everybody Wants To Go To HeavenJT Lauritson & The Buckshot Hunters - Friday Night RideSatan & Adam - Big Boss ManDanny Brooks & Lil Miss Debbi - One More MileDust Radio - Shotgun ShackBilly J Jams - She's MineLynne Jackaman - Nobody's Fault (But Yours)Jimmie Vaughan & Omar Dykes - Baby, What's Wrong...
2020-11-2757 min
Blues From The Ouse – UK Blues Podcast & Radio Show | Classic & Modern Blues#142 The Blues Hour with Paul Winn 18.11.20Featuring:-Anthony Gomes - Make A Good Man (Wanna Be Bad)Alex Dixon's Vintage Dixon - 10,000 Miles AwaySaints And Sinners - Hear Me Talkin' To YouPeter Parcek - The World Is Upside DownDC Blues - I Got A WomanAki Kumar - Don't Hold BackThe Jujubes - John The RevelatorTroy Redfern - Let It GoBobby Rush - Sometimes I WonderLynne Jackaman - CopycatGerald McClendon - You Can't Take...
2020-11-1957 min
Blues From The Ouse – UK Blues Podcast & Radio Show | Classic & Modern Blues#50 Blues From The Ouse on Jorvik Radio with Paul Winn & Ben Darwin 28.10.20Featuring:Satan and Adam - Big Boss ManLynne Jackaman - Sooner Or LaterWhen Rivers Meet - Did I Break The LawThe Weight Band - DealToo Slim and the Taildraggers - Keep The Party Rollin'Alex Dixon's Vintage Dixon - Groaning The BluesThe Mannish Boys - 300 Pounds Of JoyWaydown Wailers - I Want Your SoulJimmie Vaughan & Omar Kent Dykes - Aw Shucks, Hush Your MouthTeed Up- Love Me Like You Used To...
2020-10-291h 46tributaries radioLYNNE BODDY – World Renown Fungi Researcherhttps://tributariesradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/tributaries6-24-2018webfungi.mp3
Without fungi the terrestrial ecosystems of planet Earth would not work. Fungi are the major decomposers of dead plants, releasing nutrients and feeding plants with water and mineral nutrients.
LYNNE BODDY, Professor at the Cardiff School of Biosciences, states, “Further, so far as man is directly concerned, they produce many life-saving pharmaceuticals, foods and beverages, novel compounds, bio-control agents and much more besides. It is a joy to communicate this both to student audiences and to the public at large.”
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2018-06-2400 minCurious CasesThe Enigma of Sex, Part 2The second instalment in our double bill on the science of sex, answering this question from Robert Turner, a Curio from Leeds: "Why do we only have two sexes?"Drs Rutherford and Fry look for anomalies in the animal kingdom that go beyond the traditional mechanics of human reproduction. Biologist and author Carin Bondar describes some of the wild and somewhat disturbing ways other animals like to do it. Take the hermaphrodite sea slug who races to stab its penis into its partner's brain during sex, or the female redback spider who loves to indulge...
2018-02-1622 min
RSDS RADIO SOCIETĂ€ DEI SOGNIFungiMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss fungi. These organisms are not plants or animals but a kingdom of their own. Millions of species of fungi live on the Earth and they play a crucial role in ecosystems, enabling plants to obtain nutrients and causing material to decay. Without fungi, life as we know it simply would not exist. They are also a significant part of our daily life, making possible the production of bread, wine and certain antibiotics. Although fungi brought about the colonisation of the planet by plants about 450 million years ago, some species can kill humans and devastate trees.
2018-02-1548 min
In Our Time: ScienceFungiMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss fungi. These organisms are not plants or animals but a kingdom of their own. Millions of species of fungi live on the Earth and they play a crucial role in ecosystems, enabling plants to obtain nutrients and causing material to decay. Without fungi, life as we know it simply would not exist. They are also a significant part of our daily life, making possible the production of bread, wine and certain antibiotics. Although fungi brought about the colonisation of the planet by plants about 450 million years ago, some species can kill humans and devastate...
2018-02-1548 min
In Our TimeFungiMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss fungi. These organisms are not plants or animals but a kingdom of their own. Millions of species of fungi live on the Earth and they play a crucial role in ecosystems, enabling plants to obtain nutrients and causing material to decay. Without fungi, life as we know it simply would not exist. They are also a significant part of our daily life, making possible the production of bread, wine and certain antibiotics. Although fungi brought about the colonisation of the planet by plants about 450 million years ago, some species can kill humans and devastate...
2018-02-1548 min
The Life ScientificLynne Boddy on FungiFungi are responsible for rotting fruit, crumbling brickwork and athlete's foot. They have a mouldy reputation; but it's their ability to destroy things that enables new life to grow. 90% of all plants depend on fungi to extract vital nutrients from the soil. And it's probably thanks to fungi that the first plants were able to colonize land 450 million years ago. Professor Lynne Boddy shares her passion for fungi with Jim Al-Khalili and describes some of the vicious strategies they use to defend their territory. Direct strangulation and chemical weapons; it's all happening underground.Producer: Anna Buckley.
2016-11-1527 min
Frekvenca XInterview with Prof. Lynne Boddy, fungal ecologistLynne Boddy (Cardiff School of Biosciences) is a decomposition ecologist / fungal ecologist. She has researched the ecology of wood decomposition, including wood decomposition processes, synecology and autecology, since the mid 1970s. She has pioneered work on the fungal community structure and dynamics of wood.
2013-12-1510 min