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Tramping
Tramping Podcast - Return to My Trees Episode 9
In this final episode of the first series of Tramping's Return to My Trees, Matthew Yeomans walks from the Bwlch Mountain to Maesteg. Along the way he contemplates the legacy of the coal industry to the people and the landscape of South Wales, and he considers the lessons that can be learned for a just transition as societies begin to move away from dependence on fossil fuels. The Tramping podcast will be back with a new series in early 2025. Credits: Narrated by Matthew Yeomans Edited by Dylan Yeomans Music...
2024-11-12
18 min
Tramping
Tramping Podcast - Return to My Trees episode 8
In this episode, Matthew Yeomans walks further up the Rhondda Fach exploring the history and legends of Penrhys, and the great coal discovery in Ton Pentre that made Welsh black gold the most sought after source of energy in the world. Credits: Narrated by Matthew Yeomans Edited by Dylan Yeomans Music by Filkins Drift Get your copy of Return to My Trees And...pre-order the new book: Seascape - Notes from and Changing Coastline.
2024-11-04
20 min
Tramping
Tramping Podcast - Return to My Trees Episode 7
In this latest episode, author Matthew Yeomans explores the coal industry's impact on South Wales during the early 19th Century. He visits Castell Coch on the edge of Cardiff and Cymmer in the Rhondda Fach, examining the legacy of the Bute and Insole families - including the infamous 1856 Cymmer Colliery disaster that killed 114 men and boys. Credits: Narrated by Matthew Yeomans Edited by Dylan Yeomans Music by Filkins Drift Get your copy of Return to My Trees And...pre-order the new book: Seascape - Notes from and Cha...
2024-10-28
18 min
Tramping
Tramping Podcast: Return to My Trees Episode 6
In this latest Tramping podcast episode, Matthew Yeomans explores Eglwysilan Common above Caerphilly, investigates Ifor Bach's rebellion against the new Norman lords and contemplates the impact that the Cistercian order had on Wales's relationship to the forest and nature. Spoiler alert - it involves a lot of sheep! Credits: Narrated by Matthew Yeomans Edited by Dylan Yeomans Music by Filkins Drift Get your copy of Return to My Trees And...pre-order the new book: Seascape - Notes from and Changing Coastline.
2024-10-22
16 min
Tramping
Tramping Podcast - Return to My Trees Episode 5
The Normans are coming! And that's bad news if you're Welsh back in the 11th century. In this new episode of the Tramping podcast, Matthew Yeomans walks through the south Wales countryside and hills exploring how the Norman invasion changed local people's relationship to the land and the woodlands they had depended on for food, fuel and shelter. Talk about 1066 and all that.... Credits: Narrated by Matthew Yeomans Edited by Dylan Yeomans Music by Filkins Drift Get your copy of Return to My Trees And...pre...
2024-10-14
17 min
Tramping
Tramping Podcast - Return to My Trees Episode 4
In this episode, Matthew Yeomans follows the old Monmouthshire canal route from Newport towards Rogerstone and explores the mythology surrounding the Celtic Saints who came to prominence in what is often called The Dark Ages. We meet Gwynllyw, the Welsh pirate saint, Melangell protector of animals, glorious Gwladys and very holy Cadoc. Could they have drawn inspiration from the ancient Druids? Credits: Narrated by Matthew Yeomans Edited by Dylan Yeomans Music by Filkins Drift Get your copy of Return to My Trees And...pre-order the new book: S...
2024-10-07
15 min
Tramping
Tramping Podcast - Return to My Trees Episode 3
In this latest episode, Matthew Yeomans tramps from Caerleon to the outskirts of Newport exploring the Roman legacy and how the legend of King Arthur became so closely associated with this part of South Wales. Credits: Narrated by Matthew Yeomans Edited by Dylan Yeomans Music by Filkins Drift Get your copy of Return to My Trees And...pre-order the new book: Seascape - Notes from and Changing Coastline.
2024-10-04
11 min
Tramping
Tramping Podcast - Return to My Trees Episode 2
In this new episode, author Matthew Yeomans continues his tramping journey through Wentwood Forest exploring the impact the Romans had on the Silurian people, the Druids and the trees of Wales when they invaded back in 49AD. Their approach to warfare and to ruling would further accelerate the decline of Welsh forests and the attacks on nature. Credits: Narrated by Matthew Yeomans Edited by Dylan Yeomans Music by Filkins Drift Get your copy of Return to My Trees And...pre-order the new book: Seascape - N...
2024-09-30
17 min
Tramping
Tramping Podcast - Return to My Trees Episode 1
In this episode of Tramping's Return to My Trees series, I embark on my walking journey through the woodlands of Wales, exploring our relationship to nature. I start in Wentwood Forest in South Wales and consider the early history of trees in Wales and the power of the Druids who once lived in this forest. Credits: Narrated by Matthew Yeomans Edited by Dylan Yeomans Music by Filkins Drift Get your copy of Return to My Trees And...pre-order the new book: Seascape - Notes from and Changing...
2024-09-23
16 min
Tramping
Return to My Trees - The Introduction
Welcome to a new podcast from Tramping. In this first series we'll be revisiting Return to My Trees, a book written by Matthew Yeomans exploring the ways we can reconnect nature. Matthew reads sections of the book and walks parts of the 300 mile trail through the woodlands of Wales that he first mapped out in 2020. This first episode, set in Cardiff, Wales, explains the thinking behind the book and how the project got started. Narrator: Matthew Yeomans Editor: Dylan Yeomans Music courtesy of Filkins Drift Get your copy of...
2024-09-18
17 min
Tramping
A walking chat with Jane Davidson
In this episode I take a walk through the ancient Celtic Rainforest of Ty Canol with Jane Davidson, former minister for environment and sustainability in the Welsh government and one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act. We talk about the importance of restoring balance with nature and how walking can open our eyes to the possibilities of a better, sustainable future.
2022-07-10
45 min
Tramping
Tramping Podcast: Walking with Daniel Raven-Ellison from Slow Ways
In this latest episode Liminal Forest creator Matthew Yeomans travels to Exeter to walk and talk with Daniel Raven-Ellison, the founder of Slow Ways and originator of National Park Cities. We walk a Slow Ways route up the River Exe and talk nature, walking for wellbeing, the future of cities and the importance of trees.
2021-09-30
39 min
Tramping
Tramping Podcast: - Walking with Robert Penn
As part of The Liminal Forest exploration of how we restore balance with nature, creator Matthew Yeomans went walking in the Brecon Beacons with the author and co-founder of the Stump Up for Trees reforestation charity, Robert Penn. Edited by Dylan Yeomans Produced by Martin McCabe
2021-08-05
29 min