Backchat prog no30 2022 Plastics

Mike Birkin from Friends of the Earth is back to talk about the ongoing problem of plastic waste. Pommy Harmar has been recording some podcasts on nature and this week we’re going to hear about the beavers which have been reintroduced into this country after 400 years of extinction.

Philomena Winn reads some poems on the theme of Rivers.

Richard Flenley takes us along the River Lune in Lancashire, a personal project of walking and recording the river from source to sea.

 The Water Vole, is now sadly extinct in Cornwall. We join Jacqueline, a nature enthusiast down In Lamorna to find out more. 

Malcolm Grieve reads an extract from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

 producer Anthea Page