Trees A Crowd

By David Oakes

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Ever wondered what happens when you fill a cello with bees? Or how robins have successfully colonised the outer-reaches of our universe? Or why the world is destined to be populated purely by female turtles? This podcast celebrates nature and the stories of those who care deeply for it. Join artist, actor and Woodland Trust & Wildlife Trusts ambassador David Oakes, for a series of informal, relaxed conversations with artists, scientists, creatives and environmentalists as they celebrate the beauty of the natural world and how it inspires us as human beings. All episodes available at: https://www.treesacrowd.fm/

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Episode Date
The Horstmann Trust: Vultures in the Valleys!
Apr 09, 2024
Andy & Peter Holden: A Filial History of Nest Building
Mar 12, 2024
Dr David Hetherington: Reintroducing the Lynx lynx lynx to our Cairngorms (a cat so enigmatic that they named it thrice!)
Feb 13, 2024
Dr Ruth Tingay: From Birds in Boxes to Rivers of Raptors; One woman’s mission for Wild Justice against Raptor Persecution
Jan 09, 2024
Katie Holten: The Three Questions
Dec 23, 2023
Katie Holten: Hedge Schools, Tree Time and the Language of our Forests
Dec 05, 2023
Paul Donald: Birds, Buddhists and Bypasses; Tales of Trafficking & Traffication with that Lark Sex Ratio Guy
Nov 07, 2023
Samuel West: The West Wing live at the Global Bird Fair
Oct 05, 2023
Paul Vorster: The Secrets of Sanbona, or: “Hippos!” and How Best to Become an Impact Player in Conservation
Oct 03, 2023
Nardstar*: Illuminating Cape Town's Evolving Streets, One Caracal at a Time
Sep 05, 2023
Chris Fallows: The flight and plight of the Great White Shark, as documented by Cape Town’s legendary Shark Man
Aug 01, 2023
Piet Beytell & Tommy Hall: Two very different perspectives united in thwarting Rhino poaching across Namibia
Jul 11, 2023
Save the Rhino Trust Namibia: Desert days with the Black Rhinos and the Rangers who protect them from Poachers
Jul 04, 2023
Sophie Pavelle: Ten Remarkable British Species and the Fable of Janet who fondly found their Faeces
Jun 06, 2023
Tan Twan Eng: The Master of the Nature Metaphor with his roots deep in the Concrete Jungle
May 16, 2023
Dr Brian Briggs: The Return of the Marsh Warbler and his Secret Identity hidden amongst the Reed Beds
May 02, 2023
Emma Marsh: Feathers and Feminism with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Kazakh Antelopes
Apr 04, 2023
Chris Packham (Part Two): Through sand and snow with Rothko and Rimbaud... (No, that's not what Chris calls his dogs!)
Mar 14, 2023
Chris Packham (Part One): Deep in the New Forest with the Really Wild Showman
Mar 07, 2023
Bison Whisperers: The Return of the Native
Feb 07, 2023
Dr Trevor Dines (Part Two): Mapping “The Trevor Dines Effect” with North Wales’ Meadow Maker
Jan 17, 2023
Dr Trevor Dines (Part One): Nobody ties themselves to buttercups (unless you’re born a botanist!)
Jan 10, 2023
Sarah Gillespie: Of Moths and Mezzotints - an Artist’s Metamorphosis
Dec 06, 2022
Dan "Swampy" Hooper: The power of protest and learning to live with it (and pooing in tunnels with friends)
Nov 01, 2022
Leigh Morris: Sexy carrots & feral wallabies - the adventures and curiosities hidden behind Manannan’s cloak
Oct 04, 2022
Dr Amy-Jane Beer: The 3 R’s of Nature Writing - Reading, Roaming and the Radial symmetry of Sea Urchin larvae
Sep 06, 2022
Dr Gavin Broad: Broadening horizons with Darwin's wasps and other tales of cannibalism, incest and zombies
Aug 02, 2022
Lost on Lundy: The hidden treasures of a wildlife landmark; aka, “David adventures to Puffin Island!”
Jul 05, 2022
Bonus Beatrice: Bearded Seals & Ice Flowers - further stories from the ice sheets
Jun 14, 2022
Beatrice von Preussen: All the little things that inspired an artist to travel from pole to pole
Jun 07, 2022
George Monbiot: Feeding our future with heaven-sent bacteria and home-brewed scrumpy!
May 24, 2022
Norwegian Spruce: Our Viking Christmas Tree; aka ‘The Return of the Native’
Dec 24, 2021
Holly: Merry berries & mistle thrushes deck our true native Christmas tree
Dec 21, 2021
The Viburnums: Ways fared to Guelderland via chalk paths and waterlogged fens
Dec 14, 2021
Elder: The people’s purple medicine chest lined with pariahs, period pop-guns & poo
Dec 07, 2021
Wild Privet: Your country needs Spitfires, stick-insects and an untrimmed bush!
Nov 30, 2021
Ash: Unlocking dieback with firelight, hurley sticks & Heiðrún the Viking goat
Nov 23, 2021
Strawberry Tree: No, not that kind... rather, a god-sent Irish oddity with several subterranean secrets
Nov 16, 2021
Dogwood: Victorian dating & rodent reanimating; the secrets of the bloody whippletree
Nov 09, 2021
Brigit Strawbridge Howard: As busy as a bee, whilst remaining humble as a bumble
Nov 05, 2021
The Limes: Bast-ardly BIG trees smothered in glamrock moths & decapitated bees
Nov 02, 2021
Sycamore: The mucilage & mysteries stuck upon our misunderstood martyr maple
Oct 26, 2021
Field Maple: Is it a BIRD (tongue)? Is it (an experimental Second World War) PLANE (cargo drop)? No! It's the colourful corky bungs of the SAPINDACEAE!
Oct 19, 2021
Hornbeam: Hardwood for smelting Boy Scouts & yoking chariots to hunt Ben Hur!
Oct 12, 2021
Hazel: "Monsieur, with your mellow fruitfulness, Dormice and ancient epigenetic poetical-pescatarianism, you are really spoiling us!"
Oct 05, 2021
The Birches: Magic Shrooms to Witches Brooms, the A to Z of the Birch nurtured
Sep 28, 2021
Alder: Swamp thing! You make my heart (-sized root nodules) sing / fix nitrogen with a symbiotic bacterium!
Sep 21, 2021
Sweet Chestnut: Legendarily tasty, but as prickly and trustworthy as a Borgia
Sep 14, 2021
The Oaks: From two tiny acorns grow Viking Gods, Druidic ritual sacrifice, Nazis and... Mr Darcy?!
Sep 07, 2021
Peter Wohlleben: The hidden life of the ‘Green Sheep’ who wanted to become an Ent
Sep 03, 2021
Beech: Never judge a ‘buche’ by its leaf-cover - (Buchen sollst du suchen-ish!)
Aug 31, 2021
Wych Elm: Which wonky wych is the survivor; our world's first wood woman?
Aug 24, 2021
English Elms: Dreams in Crystal Palaces, but coffins by Cathedrals
Aug 17, 2021
Sea Buckthorn: Fuelling flying horses & fixing sand dunes - the tree that started it all?
Aug 10, 2021
The Buckthorns: Fire, brimstones and the invasive aliens hiding in a pig's bladder
Aug 03, 2021
Rowan: All hail the Witchwood; the high-flying hero of Thor & dairy-maids!
Jul 27, 2021
Wild Service: A checkered past spent pizzled with politicians & ancient french knights
Jul 20, 2021
Whitebeam: The gorge-ous (geeky) sub-science behind our mighty 'Plant Elephants'
Jul 13, 2021
The Hawthorns: May Fairies protect your Midland bush against any Common Haws
Jul 06, 2021
Crab Apple: 'A' is for sin, cider, gravity and pip-popping Auroch-pat parties
Jun 29, 2021
Wild Pears: Infanticide, scampi & Barbarossa’s bloody bearded pear conference
Jun 22, 2021
The Cherries: Drupes adored by birds; blossom revered by Kamikaze suicide pilots
Jun 15, 2021
Blackthorn: Burgeoning with Booze, Black Magic and Butcher Birds
Jun 08, 2021
Richard Nairn: One man & his 'meitheal' replanting the ancient Wild Woods of Ireland
Jun 04, 2021
White & Grey Poplars: Twelve labours of Heracles, vs. Two non-native Poplars
Jun 01, 2021
Aspen: The tremulous beauty & ‘beaver-bonds’ of our immortal Quaking Poplar
May 25, 2021
Black Poplar: Devil’s fingers & flame-breathing horses heralding the fall of a giant
May 18, 2021
The Willows: Highly immoral, incestuous, SEX-obsessed, b*stards!
May 11, 2021
Spindle: Linnaeus' favourite charcoal with splashes of Indian celebration
May 04, 2021
Box: The music, art and sensory secrets hidden within Queen Anne’s box
Apr 27, 2021
Scots Pine: Wolves, woodants and the wonder of our keystone species
Apr 20, 2021
Juniper: A gin-fuelled journey to Oregon, via Holland and Georgian London
Apr 20, 2021
Yew: From Agincourt to cancer-cure, the ancient tree of life and death
Apr 20, 2021
Oakes on Oaks: Introducing our 56(ish) Trees
Apr 16, 2021
Dr George McGavin (Part Two): Putting the “Ooo!” into Zooology with evil cats and spider penises!
Oct 05, 2020
Dr George McGavin (Part One): A World of Colour! The vertebrate in an invertebrate world!
Sep 28, 2020
Doug Allan: A witness beneath the waves on World Manta Day
Sep 17, 2020
(More) Mark Carwardine: On the realities of anti-poaching patrols & his conservation heroes
Sep 14, 2020
Georgina Lamb: A Lamb leading lions, elephants, pangolins, snow leopards, rhinos and the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation
Aug 31, 2020
Will Travers OBE: Born free and committed to compassionate conservation
Aug 17, 2020
World Oyster Day: Prof. Rowan Lockwood & Dr Bryce Stewart “shell-ebrate” the mighty mollusc!
Aug 05, 2020
Prof. Kate Jones (Part Two): Bats - mixing your margaritas since 55,000,000 BC
Jul 27, 2020
Prof. Kate Jones (Part One): What do you get if you cross David Attenborough with Harrison Ford?
Jul 20, 2020
Dr William C. Tweed: Whale < Bear < Human < Squirrel
Jul 13, 2020
Dr William C. Tweed: The secret histories of John Muir’s Giant Redwoods
Jul 06, 2020
Serena Manteghi: Ophelia and Shakespeare's floral secrets
Jun 22, 2020
Rosalind Forbes Adam: The field of dreams at the Woodmeadow Trust
Jun 15, 2020
Jennie Martin: Foraging, fungi and forest bathing in lockdown
Jun 08, 2020
Life on Langholm Moor: Wild justice and community spirit seeking the raptors’ return
Jun 01, 2020
Dara McAnulty: The young naturalist providing new perspectives on old problems
May 25, 2020
Éanna Ní Lamhna (Part 2): The trees of Ireland and our snake-free run up to the sixth extinction
May 17, 2020
Éanna Ní Lamhna (Part 1): The force of nature teaching teachers about the Emerald Isle
May 10, 2020
Alastair Humphreys: Living adventurously, yet learning how to love home
Apr 26, 2020
"Curlew" by Bella Hardy
Apr 22, 2020
CURL-EW-PHORIA!
Apr 21, 2020
Alastair Gunn: Roses, wildflowers and tending ‘to the manor’s thorn’
Apr 17, 2020
Nick Cooke: Beneath the boughs with bluebells and brambles
Apr 15, 2020
Nick Howard: Heritage, home and honing the Howard’s way
Apr 13, 2020
Luci Ryan: A hidden battle against HS2 to preserve five ancient woodlands
Mar 31, 2020
Dr Helen Pheby: Sculpture for sheep, and rhubarb trains; the place ‘Extraordinary’ can happen
Mar 30, 2020
Edward Davey: Learning how to feed the planet in response to COVID-19
Mar 26, 2020
Tim Pears: Foraging fables from the hedgerows of the West Country
Mar 16, 2020
Rob Rose & Nat Stoppard: Food as a by-product of conservation at Rosewood Farm
Mar 02, 2020
Ingrid Newkirk: One woman and ‘Animalkind’; the tale of PETA’s rabbits
Feb 17, 2020
Dr Bryce Stewart: The man who writes his phone number on lobsters
Feb 03, 2020
Dr Catherine Barlow: No puffins were harmed in the making of this golden eagle podcast
Jan 20, 2020
Mark Carwardine: "Don’t ever french-kiss a Narwhal”... and other words of wisdom
Jan 03, 2020
Joanna Lentini: Swimming with crocodiles to photograph her fears
Dec 16, 2019
Victoria Bromley: Producing wildlife documentaries and inspiring the next generation
Dec 13, 2019
Dr Richard Benwell: Carbon footprints and coots’ feet; the Greenman running in Wantage
Nov 22, 2019
Dr Jo Elworthy: Living in Eden – how to leave the world better than you found it
Nov 14, 2019
Sir John Lawton: The wit, wisdom and winged omens of the man who would re-wild Chernobyl
Nov 04, 2019
Amanda Owen: Deep in the Dales with the Yorkshire Shepherdess
Oct 18, 2019
The Art of Trees: Live from the Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Woodland Trust
Oct 10, 2019
Harry Barton: Balancing Wildlife in Devon and a Vision of Natural Justice
Oct 02, 2019
Tannis Davidson: Bulletproof elephants, 3D-printing a quagga and cloning thylacines
Sep 12, 2019
Chris Watson (Part Two): If a podcast is recorded in a forest, and no one is around to hear it…
Aug 21, 2019
Chris Watson (Part One): The winds catching the conifers – and the secrets of the dawn chorus
Aug 20, 2019
Dr Jess French: Two legs, good – six legs, better! One woman and her many minibeasts
Aug 09, 2019
Dr Terry Gough: Sowing seeds in the flowerbeds of Kings and Queens
Jul 29, 2019
Rebecca Speight: The Overstory and Understory of the Woodland Trust
Jul 11, 2019
Wolfgang Buttress and Dr Martin Bencsik: Hive minds waxing lyrical
Jun 26, 2019
Bella Hardy: Singing in the Shadows of Mountains
Jun 13, 2019
Maldives Underwater Initiative: Diving with Pearls
May 30, 2019
Dr Guy Stevens: Guarding the Big Blue’s Gentle Giant
May 16, 2019
Dr Fay Clark: Ring-tails, Killer Whales and the history of the British Zoo.
May 06, 2019
Dr Ellinor Michel: Snail shells and concrete dinosaurs in deep time
Apr 25, 2019
Dr Steve Etches MBE: Plumbing the prehistoric depths of the Kimmeridge Clay
Apr 22, 2019
Dr Katherine Brent: Morris dancing, bees and badger cull protestors
Apr 11, 2019
Astrid Goldsmith: Puppets, politics, and The Wind in the Willows with extra Wombles
Apr 04, 2019
David Fettes: Going against the crowd - and the best moment to press the button
Mar 25, 2019
Polly Morgan: Form and colour rather than life and death
Mar 07, 2019
Mark Frith: a legacy of Britain's ancient oaks
Feb 21, 2019