You often hear people talk about how getting out into nature gives them a change of perspective. But what happens when your profession is nature on the biggest possible scale? Dr Becky Smethhurst is an astrophysicist, author and YouTuber who studies supermassive blackholes and galaxy formation, but says that rather than making her feel small, it does exactly the opposite…
Join Becky now for an evening stroll around a nature reserve near the South Downs, as she gives a few pointers on spotting planets, explains what the movies get wrong and dodges a swan…
A Life More Wild is an 18Sixty production, brought to you by Canopy & Stars. Production by Clarissa Maycock. Our theme music is by Billie Marten.
Conservationist Sacha Dench on tracking swans 7,000km across 11 countries
Julius Roberts on nature-first farming and looking his food in the eye
Writer and broadcaster Emma Gannon on the regenerative value of doing nothing
Activist Mikaela Loach on finding the power to fight global corporations
Lira Valencia on barriers to inclusivity, common terns and “London dolphins”
Alastair Humphreys on building adventure into your life wherever you live
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Sarah Wilson on her favourite hike and nature as a coping mechanism
Hamza Yassin on watching the same eagles for eight years and how Strictly changed his life
Mike Duxbury on life as a blind farmer, pig coughs and goose cuddles
Author Freya Bromley on tidal pools, grief and screaming underwater
Katherine May on disappearing shipwrecks, the rhythm of walking and why we should all love winter
Jack Harries on meeting Obama, seeing climate change first-hand and his second favourite place in Hackney
The Drag Queen Gardener on allotments, break-ups and the benefits of gardening
Liv Little on creativity, loss and grounding herself by the sea
Banjo Beale on drunk botanists, interior design and carrying an antique apothecary cabinet up a coast path
Nick Hayes on the Right to Roam, silt witches and getting arrested
Charlotte Church on woodlands, waterfalls and listening to nature
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