Nature Tripping

Nature Tripping Episode 34 - The Emperor Moth (Part 1)

Join Cathy and Jo on Norland Moor with moth expert Anthony Arak as we leave a moth trap out overnight and return in the morning to see who’s arrived.  This episode is Par

Nature Tripping Episode 33 - Listening to Dobarz

This episode is a departure from the usual format and is an immersive listening experience of the sounds of Dobarz.  Earlier in the year Jo and Cathy visited Eastern Pola

Nature Tripping Episode 32 - Climate as a Person

Jo and Cathy meet with Ashar Aslam, a post-doctoral climate researcher at Leeds University who studies tropical storms. They discuss Jo and Ashar’s 2025 collaboration as

Nature Tripping Episode 31 - Bryophytes and the Atlantic Rainforest

Bryophyte curious?  Join Jo and Cathy in this episode of Nature Tripping for a walk through Hardcastle Crags in Calderdale with bryologist Johnny Turner.   It might just

Nature Tripping Episode 30 - Regenerative Farming and Life in the Soil

Jo and Cathy meet Bailey for an introduction to Regenerative Farming and a discussion about the experimental field work he has been doing with the University of Oxford on

Episode 29 - Nature Tripping Goes East

In this episode Cathy and Jo travel east to Poland.  Join them along the way as they cross borders and head into the primaeval forests of Bialowieza and the vast marshlan

Nature Tripping Episode 28 - Grassland Fungi

Jo and Cathy spend this episode with National Trust project officer and ecologist Steve Hindle on the slopes of Calderdale, in what looks like an ordinary field… but isn’

Nature Tripping Episode 27 - The Curlew

If you go up to Calderdale’s rough pasture and moorland during the spring and early summer you might encounter a variety of breeding birds – small ones like meadow pipits

Nature Tripping Episode 26 - Sounds from a Hebridean Coast

It’s always a pleasure to hear from our listeners and on occasion people have asked for an episode dedicated purely to nature sounds. This is one such episode.  It’s a co

Nature Tripping Episode 25 - House Martins

A stone’s throw from the river in Hebden Bridge town centre Jill and Kathryn make a discovery under their eaves: House Martins have arrived. A summer of ups and downs fol

Nature Tripping Episode 24 - Rewilding

What does rewilding in the British Isles mean, how do you start it off, and what happens when you do? In this episode we visit the 3000 acre Broughton Hall estate in York

Nature Tripping Episode 23 - Building Resilience

In an episode centred on climate change and community resilience, Jo and Cathy stay in their local town - Todmorden - to chat with Barbara Jones, a pioneer of natural bui

Nature Tripping Episode 22- Natterjack Toads

In this episode we visit Gronant and Talacre dunes with Mandy Cartwright from the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust to investigate the only Welsh population of Nat

Nature Tripping Episode 21 - The New Forest

What does the future hold for the ancient trees of the New Forest?  Join us inside the Forest, at Denny Wood, for an in-depth discussion with ecologist Adrian Newton and

Nature Tripping Episode 20 - The Mountain Hare

Cathy and Jo join wildlife biologist and hare expert Carlos Bedson on location in the Dark Peak to find out more about the only mountain hares in England. Their ancestors

Nature Tripping Episode 19 - The Great Yellow Bumblebee

Join Jo and Cathy for a Gaelic adventure to find out more about one of Britain’s rarest bumblebees – the Great Yellow Bumblebee (Bombus distinguendus).  We meet ecologist

Nature Tripping Episode 18 - Poetry and Birds in the Industrial Revolution

“Come, summer visitant, attach to my reed roof your nest of clay”.  In this episode Jo and Cathy look back to the Victorian era with poetry scholar Clara Dawson.  Clara i

Nature Tripping Episode 17 - A Shropshire Graveyard

This episode takes Cathy and Jo to Shropshire to explore a church graveyard. Harriet Carty, from the charity Caring for God’s Acre, explains all about these oases of spec

Nature Tripping Episode 16 - Little Woolden Moss

Following on from Episode 15 Jo and Cathy make a return to the peatlands, this time to a lowland raised bog on the outskirts of Manchester and Salford.  Little Woolden Mo

Nature Tripping Episode 15 - Peat Bogs

Jo and Cathy venture into squelchy upland territory in search of sphagnum moss, a key species of the peat bog. Discovering that a third of the UK was once bog or fenland,