| KEW MAGAZINE - Summer 2023 | |
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"Last Word" in which I talk about the importance of engaging children with plants. Read my article here |
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| PODCAST - April 2019 | |
| Interview with Miles Irving for "forager". Listen here |
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| RADIO - March 2019 | |
| Interview with Byron Murray for "To Know The Land", University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) Listen here |
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| PODCAST - November 2018 | |
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Discussion with Paul Kirtley, specialist in wilderness bushcraft and survival skills. Listen here |
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| RADIO - February 2017 | |
| In February 2017 I travelled to India with producer David Morley of Perfectly Normal Productions, to record two programmes for the BBC's World Service about fig trees sacred to India's Buddhists and Hindus for broadcast in August 2017. They are currently available to hear by clicking the images below. | |
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"The Tree Spirits" - Episode 1 - The Bhodi Tree Believed to be descended from the tree under which the Bhudda gained enlightenment |
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"The Tree Spirits" - Episode 2 - Thimmamma Marrimanu This tree, said to be the largest in the world, stands near Kadiri in Andra Pradesh |
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| BBC Radio 5 | ‘Plants For People’ |
| BBC Radio 4 | Natural History Programme - Ancient Trees (with Edward Parker) |
| Womans' Hour - ‘On the Yacu Pato to Iquitos’ (overland travel from Guyana to Peru) | |
| BBC World Service | Rio Mazan Expedition - Ethnobotany (Latin American Service) |
| Peña Latinoamericana (traditional Andean musical instruments) |
TELEVISION
‘ROUGH SCIENCE’ BBC 2
In 1999 I was invited to take part - as ethnobotanist - in the first four programmes of the TV series 'Rough Science'. Presented by Kate Humble, the series challenged 5 scientists - each from a different discipline - who had been 'castaway' on the Italian island of Capraia, to fulfil a series of tasks, using only their ingenuity, a few tools, and the natural resources found on this Mediterranean island.
My challenges included making an insect repellent, an antiseptic, toothpaste, dyes for a home-made flag and a hair-loss treatment from ingredients extracted from plants I found growing on the island.
The series was shown on BBC2 during the Summer of 2000, ‘Rough Science’ was the result of a collaboration between the BBC and The Open University.