Pablo Behrens was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and has lived in London since 1980. He is an award-winning producer, writer, and director. In 2021 he bought a boat for £1 and navigated the Thames Estuary, producing the short film 'The Crossing'. The work demonstrated the forces of nature - and the vulnerability - of the river environment. That intimate experience has motivated him to buy a bigger boat and to embark upon a more ambitious expedition to continue his mission of documenting the surviving wilderness of the Thames Estuary.

View ‘The Crossing’ here: https://vimeo.com/535981537

Pablo’s feature film ‘Adrift in Soho’ set in 1950s, and based on the novel by Colin Wilson, is available on DVD in the U.S. and UK, iTunes, and on Amazon Prime Video: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adrift-Soho-Owen-Drake/dp/B089RCQY6J/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2PGJB7BTA3AUB&keywords=adrift+in+soho&qid=1648401177&s=instant-video&sprefix=Adrift+in+Soho%2Cinstant-video%2C104&sr=1-2

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Produced by: Jonathan Kempster for Oral History Sound Recording, April 2022.

Leona Fensome is a producer and historian. Itinerant by nature, she has made St Albans her 46th home in 45 years. Her mixed-race heritage has made her inquisitive of people – always looking round the corner for an interesting story to re-tell.

Jonathan Kempster managed to catch up with her briefly, and share a walk around her current nesting site, the cathedral city of St Albans, to hear the story of Leona’s continuing journey.

(Listen to Leona's latest oral history project, 'Tape Letters', here: https://www.audiocontentfund.org.uk/projects/tape-letters/)

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Produced by: Jonathan Kempster for Oral History Sound Recording, February 2022.

Spend half an hour walking the ancient and unique landscape of Box Moor in the Chiltern Hills with life-trustee Dennis Furnell. 

In spite of the decision to drive a bypass straight through the middle of this vulnerable chalk downland on the edge of Hemel Hempstead, indefatigable 84-year-old Dennis - naturalist, writer, broadcaster, photographer, painter, and guardian of nature - will never give up his fight to protect the land.

https://www.boxmoortrust.org.uk/

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Produced by: Jonathan Kempster for Oral History Sound Recording, December 2021.

Radio Walks – The Urban Gardener, Kate Poland.  “Everyone has a right to access nature and green spaces. It should not be a privilege. Growing stuff is political and empowering: putting a seed in the ground and creating something is a rebellious act”.  

In the winter of 2010 Kate Poland set up a community garden on some disused land near her home in Hackney, east London. The garden thrived but the landowners evicted them in 2019 to develop the land. Kate wasn’t able to save that garden, but she set up the Union of Hackney Gardens, Orchards and Wild Spaces as a support network to train, share resources, and campaign for green spaces. There are now 71 gardens in the union. 

 Join Kate as she guides Jonathan Kempster through the terrifying urban landscape to find sanctuary in the ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’.  (Photograph by Zainab Hazel for the Hackney Citizen).  

https://www.cordwainersgrow.org.uk/

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Produced by: Jonathan Kempster for Oral History Sound Recording, October 2021. 

The Gaddesden Estate is a 1,900 acre farming and forestry estate in the Chiltern Hills. The Halsey family has lived and farmed there for over 500 years. Today it is run by Nicholas Halsey and his son Guy.

https://www.gaddesdenestate.co.uk/

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Produced by: Jonathan Kempster for Oral History Sound Recording, July 2021.