Trees A Crowd
En podcast av David Oakes
139 Avsnitt
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Elder: The people’s purple medicine chest lined with pariahs, period pop-guns & poo
Publicerades: 2021-12-07 -
Wild Privet: Your country needs Spitfires, stick-insects and an untrimmed bush!
Publicerades: 2021-11-30 -
Ash: Unlocking dieback with firelight, hurley sticks & Heiðrún the Viking goat
Publicerades: 2021-11-23 -
Strawberry Tree: No, not that kind... rather, a god-sent Irish oddity with several subterranean secrets
Publicerades: 2021-11-16 -
Dogwood: Victorian dating & rodent reanimating; the secrets of the bloody whippletree
Publicerades: 2021-11-09 -
Brigit Strawbridge Howard: As busy as a bee, whilst remaining humble as a bumble
Publicerades: 2021-11-05 -
The Limes: Bast-ardly BIG trees smothered in glamrock moths & decapitated bees
Publicerades: 2021-11-02 -
Sycamore: The mucilage & mysteries stuck upon our misunderstood martyr maple
Publicerades: 2021-10-26 -
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!
Publicerades: 2021-10-19 -
Hornbeam: Hardwood for smelting Boy Scouts & yoking chariots to hunt Ben Hur!
Publicerades: 2021-10-12 -
Hazel: "Monsieur, with your mellow fruitfulness, Dormice and ancient epigenetic poetical-pescatarianism, you are really spoiling us!"
Publicerades: 2021-10-05 -
The Birches: Magic Shrooms to Witches Brooms, the A to Z of the Birch nurtured
Publicerades: 2021-09-28 -
Alder: Swamp thing! You make my heart (-sized root nodules) sing / fix nitrogen with a symbiotic bacterium!
Publicerades: 2021-09-21 -
Sweet Chestnut: Legendarily tasty, but as prickly and trustworthy as a Borgia
Publicerades: 2021-09-14 -
The Oaks: From two tiny acorns grow Viking Gods, Druidic ritual sacrifice, Nazis and... Mr Darcy?!
Publicerades: 2021-09-07 -
Peter Wohlleben: The hidden life of the ‘Green Sheep’ who wanted to become an Ent
Publicerades: 2021-09-03 -
Beech: Never judge a ‘buche’ by its leaf-cover - (Buchen sollst du suchen-ish!)
Publicerades: 2021-08-31 -
Wych Elm: Which wonky wych is the survivor; our world's first wood woman?
Publicerades: 2021-08-24 -
English Elms: Dreams in Crystal Palaces, but coffins by Cathedrals
Publicerades: 2021-08-17 -
Sea Buckthorn: Fuelling flying horses & fixing sand dunes - the tree that started it all?
Publicerades: 2021-08-10
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/ Why not become a "Subscription Squirrel" on our Patreon, and help support the production of this podcast? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.