The Paul Kirtley Podcast

By Paul Kirtley: Professional Outdoorsman

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Your number one podcast resource for all things related to wilderness bushcraft, survival skills and outdoor life. Interviews, discussions, reviews, advice, tips and tricks.

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The Paul Kirtley Podcast episodes:

01.25.2024
PK Podcast 55: John Rhyder – Woodsman, Naturalist, Educator and Senior Tracker
This podcast is long overdue. My guest is John Rhyder, naturalist, writer and highly experienced bushcraft educator. Indeed he was the instructor on the first formal bushcraft course I took many, many years ago. John is an innovator in the...
12.22.2022
PK Podcast 54: Dave Holder, Wilderness Living Skills Instructor and TV Survival Consultant
Dave Holder is a wilderness living skills instructor and wilderness guide based in Canada. He is also a TV survival consultant, being the lead survival and safety consultant on the Alone show on The History Channel. In this conversation we...
07.30.2021
PK Podcast 53: Theresa Emmerich Kamper On Traditional Tanning
Theresa Emmerich Kamper, PhD., Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and author of Determining Prehistoric Skin Processing Technologies, has over 25 years of experience in prehistoric skin tanning and clothing construction.
04.17.2021
PK Podcast 52: John Boe On PTSD, Finding Solace In Nature And A New Career In Bushcraft Instruction
John Boe is a British military veteran with PTSD. In this podcast episode we have a candid discussion about John’s condition, how it manifested itself and how he came to realise he found solace in time spent in nature, especially...
02.25.2020
PK Podcast 51: Cliff Jacobson – Skills Are More Important Than Things
Cliff Jacobson is one of North America’s most respected outdoors writers and wilderness canoe guides. He is an outdoor skills instructor and a professional outfitter and guide, a canoeing and camping consultant, and the author of more than a...
02.14.2020
PK Podcast 50: Les Hiddins, The Bush Tucker Man
Les Hiddins became well known through his ABC TV series “The Bush Tucker Man”. In 1980 Les had received a Defence Fellowship to research survival in northern Australia and looked heavily into traditional bush foods, with the help and...
01.15.2020
PK Podcast 49: Gordon Dedman On Australian Bushcraft And Survival
In this podcast episode Gordon Dedman and I talk bushcraft and survival in Australia. Gordon is a survival instructor in NORFORCE, an Australian Army unit conducting patrols in remote wilderness areas of northern Australia. He provides civilian training via...
10.22.2019
PK Podcast 48: Bruce Zawalsky On Canadian Wilderness Survival
Bruce Zawalsky is a professional wilderness survival instructor and author, with over 25 years of experience as an outdoor educator. He teaches survival courses, wildlife and bear awareness courses as well as wilderness navigation. Here in Podcast 48, Bruce talks...
09.22.2019
PK Podcast 47: Tom Lutyens, Mors Kochanski, Lars Fält, Johan Skullman
In 1995 Lars Fält organised a seminal survival instructors conference in northern Sweden. Tom Lutyens and Mors Kochanski were among the instructors. Johan Skullman was one of the students. Here they discuss the importance of that event....
08.31.2019
PK Podcast 46: Kevin Callan, The Nicest Man On The Meanest Journey
Canadian outdoor educator and author Kevin Callan joins me to talk about nature connection, preserving wilderness, healing yourself with time outdoors as well as undertaking the Meanest Link…
08.15.2019
PK Podcast 45: Tristan Gooley On Unlocking Nature’s Clues & Signs
Tristan Gooley, natural navigator and author, returns to the Paul Kirtley Podcast for a conversation centred on on becoming more attuned to the clues and signs surrounding you in nature, and finding the keys that help unlock these secrets...
07.28.2019
PK Podcast 044: John Hudson, UK Military’s Chief Survival Instructor
John Hudson, Chief Instructor at the UK military’s Defence SERE Training Organisation, joins me in conversation on the Paul Kirtley Podcast. Originally an RAF helicopter pilot and now the survival instructor responsible for training all the survival instructors in the...
07.10.2019
PK Podcast 043: North American Titans Of Bushcraft
David Wescott, Dave Holladay, André-François Bourbeau and Mors Kochanski come together in a panel discussion chaired by Les Stroud (a.k.a. Survivorman) at the 2019 Global Bushcraft Symposium, Alberta, Canada. Recorded June 11th 2019. Listen now...
06.29.2019
PK Podcast 042: Mors Kochanski, Northern Bushcraft Legend
Mors Kochanski joins me for a conversation about wilderness living skills, bushcraft and survival. Mors explains his background in these subjects, going right back to his school days, along with learning from his mentor Tom Roycraft, through Mors's own unique...
06.26.2019
PK Podcast 041: Dave Canterbury On Re-enactment, Bushcraft And Survival
Dave Canterbury of the Pathfinder School joins me to talk about his perspective on bushcraft, particularly the contrasts he sees between bushcraft in the UK and USA. We use his popular concept of the 5C’s of survivability as well...
05.15.2019
PK Podcast 040: Miles Irving On Wild Foods, Foraging, Health And Connecting With Nature
Miles Irving, is one of the foremost professional foragers in the UK, author of The Forager Handbook, founder and director of Forager Ltd and host of the WorldWild podcast. Miles’s interest in foraging goes back to his childhood but...
05.11.2019
PK Podcast 039: How Many Knives? Alternatives To Birch Bark; Sharpening Spoon Knives; Plant Toxins In Water; Bushcraft Benefits To Woodland.
In this Paul Kirtley Podcast I return to Q&A, answering listener questions on a range of topics - Is there an issue with collecting water from streams or ponds containing poisonous plant species such as hemlock water dropwort, Oenanthe crocata?...
03.11.2019
PK Podcast 038: Justin Barbour On Exploring The Wilderness Of Newfoundland And Labrador
In the Spring of 2017 Justin and his dog Saku set off on a a traverse of Newfoundland. Starting on snowshoes and hauling a sled, Justin switched to backpacking and pakrafting once the conditions allowed. 68 days and...
02.13.2019
PK Podcast 037: Dan Hume On His Quest For Traditional Fire Skills
Dan Hume, bushcraft instructor and author of The Art Of Fire: The Joy Of Tinder, Spark And Ember guests on The Paul Kirtley Podcast to discuss his travels to remote places in search of traditional fire techniques being applied and...
02.03.2019
PK Podcast 036: Mors Kochanski And Jon McArthur On The Global Bushcraft Symposium
Mors Kochanski and Jon McArthur join The Paul Kirtley Podcast to discuss the motivations behind, and the aims of, the Global Bushcraft Symposium. Along the way, Mors shares a few anecdotes too...
12.01.2018
PK Podcast 035: Anna Lewington On Adventures In Ethnobotany And The Bounty Of Birches
Anna Lewington, ethnobotanist and author, joins me to talk about adventures in the Peruvian Amazon, writing the seminal book Plants For People, being an inspiration for the Eden Project, being part of the BBC’s Rough Science series, reviving traditional rush...
11.19.2018
PK Podcast 034: Lou Rudd On The Motivation To Traverse Antarctica Solo, Unsupported and Unaided
In this episode I am joined by Louis Rudd, MBE. This interview with Lou was recorded in late October 2018, shortly before he departed for Chile and then onto Antarctica to attempt a solo, unsupported and unaided crossing...
11.10.2018
PK Podcast 033: Kevin Brownlee on Indigenous Archaeology and Highlighting Native Heritage
Kevin Brownlee, Curator of Archaeology at the renowned Manitoba Museum, joins me to discuss indigenous archaeology and working with indigenous communities to raise awareness of ancient heritage and archaeology of the boreal forest and sub-arctic...
10.10.2018
PK Podcast 032: Lars Fält, Julia Kalthoff, Juha Rankinen and Jonas Als
Back in Sweden again. This podcast brings you interviews from the wonderful Bushcraftfestivalen, with Lars Fält, Julia Kalthoff, Juha Rankinen and Jonas Als. I also briefly catch up with Rupert Brown of Brown's Bushcraft to get his impressions of...
09.21.2018
PK Podcast 031: Will Lord On His Passion For The Prehistoric
Will Lord grew up on the land that holds Grimes Graves, a prehistoric flint mine in Norfolk. Will's parents were custodians of the land, which is an English Heritage site. During his formative years, Will was surrounded by flint-knapping and...
04.18.2018
PK Podcast 030: Dr Cassandra Quave On Studying Medicinal Uses Of Plants & The Treatment Of Infectious Disease
Dr Cassandra Quave joins me to discuss her work as a medical ethnobotanist, teaching about medicinal plant use and researching botanical remedies used in the traditional treatment of infectious disease....
04.05.2018
PK Podcast 029: Leon McCarron On Walking The Land Beyond
Leon McCarron FRGS is an adventurer and storyteller, who has used both the mediums of video and text to vividly convey aspects of his journeys and a tangible sense of the places and people he has encountered along the way....
02.09.2018
PK Podcast 028: Joe Robinet On His Love Of Camping, Bushcraft & Making A Living On YouTube
Joe Robinet is known for making videos documenting his bushcraft and camping adventures, as well as having appeared on the first season of History Channel series Alone. I’ve been intrigued by the proliferation of outdoor video blogs and specifically...
01.03.2018
PK Podcast 027: Colin Skeath On What It Takes To Canoe Around Britain
On 30th April 2017 Colin Skeath and his nephew Davis Gould-Duff set off from Loch Sunart on the West Coast of Scotland in an open canoe, aiming to circumnavigate Britain. 86 days later they completed this epic undertaking. Colin...
12.08.2017
PK Podcast 026: Kevin Callan On The Joys Of Winter Camping
Kevin Callan is well known as a paddler and author of many canoe-route guidebooks for his native province of Ontario, Canada. He's also known as the Happy Camper, and he certainly has always been happy when I've camped or...
11.23.2017
PK Podcast 025: Andy Chadderton Q&A – Deer Stalking, Ethics, Land Management, Rewilding, Advice To Beginners & More
Professional deer stalker and firearms instructor Andy Chadderton returns to The Paul Kirtley Podcast. The conversation Andy and I have in this podcast is based on questions submitted by listeners. In the wide-ranging discussion, we talk deer stalking, land...
11.06.2017
PK Podcast 024: Why Your Bow-Drill Time Obsession Is Important
Why does it matter how long it takes you to light fire by friction when practising? From the perspective of sports psychology there are solid reasons why measuring performance in bushcraft activities can be beneficial. My colleague Iain Gair, who...
10.11.2017
PK Podcast 023: Rupert Brown, Water Filter Bag Man
Rupert Brown joins me to talk about water purification and the nifty solution he provided to the bushcraft world and wider community of outdoors people in manufacturing the Brown Filter Bag. In the course of the conversation Rupert also...
09.06.2017
PK Podcast 022: Conversations From Bushcraftfestivalen
Episode 22 is made up from some of my conversations at the 2017 Bushcraftfestivalen in Sweden. Guests include Lisa Fenton, Harry Sepp, Jonas Landolsi, Tobias Karlsson, Kevin Warrington, Jonas Als and Mikael Akerman...
08.02.2017
PK Podcast 021: Sarita Robinson On The Wellbeing Benefits Of Outdoor Life
Sarita Robinson, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at UCLAN joins me to talk about her recent work, researching and quantifying various benefits to our wellbeing of spending time outdoors, undertaking bushcraft and other activities. Along the way, our discussion takes in...
07.02.2017
PK Podcast 020: James Raffan – Explorer, Scholar and Author
James Raffan, scholar, outdoorsman and celebrated Canadian author joins me to discuss adventure, risk, failure, teaching, wilderness journeying, lifelong learning, personal development, human potential and journal keeping, along with characters such as Kirk Whipper, Bill Mason and Sir George Simpson...
11.16.2016
PK Podcast 019: Post-Trip Post-Script With Kevin Callan, Justine Curgenven and Ray Goodwin
Sitting down around a table in a wooden chalet in Scotland, Kevin Callan, Ray Goodwin, Justine Curgenven and I talk about the canoe trip down the river Spey we'd just finished the very same day. This is an enjoyable yet...
09.21.2016
PK Podcast 018: Mark Hines, Methodical Man Of Endurance Adventure
Mark Hines, professional adventurer, endurance athlete, exercise physiologist and biomechanics researcher, author and lecturer joins me for a wide-ranging and fascinating discussion on adventure, endurance, diet and health...
07.06.2016
PK Podcast 017: Al Humphreys On Adventures Great And Small
Al Humphries is best known for the concept of microadventures and his book of the same name, following his Year of Microadventure. He's no stranger to big adventures either, though. Al joins me on this podcast to talk...
06.01.2016
PK Podcast 016: Lisa Fenton On Bushcraft And Indigenous Knowledge Transmissions
Lisa Fenton joins me to talk about her academic research in the realms of anthropology and ethnobotany, in particular her research into the relationship between bushcraft and indigenous knowledge, which formed the basis of her doctoral thesis...
05.05.2016
PK Podcast 015: John Rensten On Urban Foraging
I'm joined by John Rensten of Forage London to talk about urban foraging in the city and the advantages of learning about tree and plant identification in urban spaces. We meet in a London park and take a look at...
04.20.2016
PK Podcast 014: Mark Kalch On Epic Source To Sea River Descents
Mark Kalch has made it his mission to paddle the longest river on each of the seven continents - seven rivers on seven continents. He has already completed descents of the Amazon, Volga and the Missouri-Mississippi River. These journeys have...
04.06.2016
PK Podcast 013: Ray Goodwin On Continually Evolving Adventures By Canoe
Ray Goodwin returns for round two on my podcast to discuss his continuing journey in coaching and adventuring by canoe and how this feeds into his new book as well as his teaching, leadership and guiding...
01.07.2016
PK Podcast 012: Lou Rudd On Unsupported Polar Journeys and Retracing Amundsen’s Route To The South Pole
Lou Rudd joins me to discuss making unsupported journeys to the South Pole including retracing Amundsen's route. Along the way he provides insights on physical training, food, nutrition, personal admin and winter camping routines...
11.04.2015
PK Podcast 011: Andy Chadderton On Life As A Professional Deer Stalker
Professional deer stalker and firearms instructor Andy Chadderton joins me to talk about his work in deer stalking, deer management and education about deer…
08.05.2015
PK Podcast 010: Alyssa Crittenden On The Hadza, Honey And The Human Diet
Alyssa Crittenden, Lincy assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada joins me to talk about her work amongst the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania, evolution of the human diet and the importance of honey...
06.03.2015
PK Podcast 009: Leon McCarron & Tom Allen On Making Meaningful Journeys, Off The Beaten Track
In this podcast episode, adventurers Tom Allen and Leon McCarron join me to talk about making independent, long distance, human powered journeys off the beaten track. Both are Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society. Both have made seriously long human...
05.09.2015
PK Podcast 008: Chris Townsend, Backpacking Legend
Chris Townsend is something of a hero to me. When I was first looking to undertake multi-day backpacking trips more than 20 years ago, it was Chris's book, The Backpacker's Handbook that I referred to for information and advice....
04.01.2015
PK Podcast 007: Jules Pretty, Travels With Enduring People In Vanishing Lands
Jules Pretty OBE, Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex joins me to discuss his book The Edge Of Extinction: Travels With Enduring People In Vanishing Lands, the powerful messages it contains and his work in general...
03.13.2015
PK Podcast 006: Winter Outdoor Life Tips, Thoughts And Perspectives
In episode 6 of my podcast I travel to northern Sweden for a winter camping trip and along the way pass on some advice for winter outdoor life, build a special survival fire and meet a Sami man who provides...

What's The Paul Kirtley Podcast about?

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The Paul Kirtley Podcast episodes:

PK Podcast 55: John Rhyder – Woodsman, Naturalist, Educator and Senior Tracker

PK Podcast 54: Dave Holder, Wilderness Living Skills Instructor and TV Survival Consultant

PK Podcast 53: Theresa Emmerich Kamper On Traditional Tanning

PK Podcast 52: John Boe On PTSD, Finding Solace In Nature And A New Career In Bushcraft Instruction

PK Podcast 51: Cliff Jacobson – Skills Are More Important Than Things

PK Podcast 50: Les Hiddins, The Bush Tucker Man

PK Podcast 49: Gordon Dedman On Australian Bushcraft And Survival

PK Podcast 48: Bruce Zawalsky On Canadian Wilderness Survival

PK Podcast 47: Tom Lutyens, Mors Kochanski, Lars Fält, Johan Skullman

PK Podcast 46: Kevin Callan, The Nicest Man On The Meanest Journey

PK Podcast 45: Tristan Gooley On Unlocking Nature’s Clues & Signs

PK Podcast 044: John Hudson, UK Military’s Chief Survival Instructor

PK Podcast 043: North American Titans Of Bushcraft

PK Podcast 042: Mors Kochanski, Northern Bushcraft Legend

PK Podcast 041: Dave Canterbury On Re-enactment, Bushcraft And Survival

PK Podcast 040: Miles Irving On Wild Foods, Foraging, Health And Connecting With Nature

PK Podcast 039: How Many Knives? Alternatives To Birch Bark; Sharpening Spoon Knives; Plant Toxins In Water; Bushcraft Benefits To Woodland.

PK Podcast 038: Justin Barbour On Exploring The Wilderness Of Newfoundland And Labrador

PK Podcast 037: Dan Hume On His Quest For Traditional Fire Skills

PK Podcast 036: Mors Kochanski And Jon McArthur On The Global Bushcraft Symposium

PK Podcast 035: Anna Lewington On Adventures In Ethnobotany And The Bounty Of Birches

PK Podcast 034: Lou Rudd On The Motivation To Traverse Antarctica Solo, Unsupported and Unaided

PK Podcast 033: Kevin Brownlee on Indigenous Archaeology and Highlighting Native Heritage

PK Podcast 032: Lars Fält, Julia Kalthoff, Juha Rankinen and Jonas Als

PK Podcast 031: Will Lord On His Passion For The Prehistoric

PK Podcast 030: Dr Cassandra Quave On Studying Medicinal Uses Of Plants & The Treatment Of Infectious Disease

PK Podcast 029: Leon McCarron On Walking The Land Beyond

PK Podcast 028: Joe Robinet On His Love Of Camping, Bushcraft & Making A Living On YouTube

PK Podcast 027: Colin Skeath On What It Takes To Canoe Around Britain

PK Podcast 026: Kevin Callan On The Joys Of Winter Camping

PK Podcast 025: Andy Chadderton Q&A – Deer Stalking, Ethics, Land Management, Rewilding, Advice To Beginners & More

PK Podcast 024: Why Your Bow-Drill Time Obsession Is Important

PK Podcast 023: Rupert Brown, Water Filter Bag Man

PK Podcast 022: Conversations From Bushcraftfestivalen

PK Podcast 021: Sarita Robinson On The Wellbeing Benefits Of Outdoor Life

PK Podcast 020: James Raffan – Explorer, Scholar and Author

PK Podcast 019: Post-Trip Post-Script With Kevin Callan, Justine Curgenven and Ray Goodwin

PK Podcast 018: Mark Hines, Methodical Man Of Endurance Adventure

PK Podcast 017: Al Humphreys On Adventures Great And Small

PK Podcast 016: Lisa Fenton On Bushcraft And Indigenous Knowledge Transmissions

PK Podcast 015: John Rensten On Urban Foraging

PK Podcast 014: Mark Kalch On Epic Source To Sea River Descents

PK Podcast 013: Ray Goodwin On Continually Evolving Adventures By Canoe

PK Podcast 012: Lou Rudd On Unsupported Polar Journeys and Retracing Amundsen’s Route To The South Pole

PK Podcast 011: Andy Chadderton On Life As A Professional Deer Stalker

PK Podcast 010: Alyssa Crittenden On The Hadza, Honey And The Human Diet

PK Podcast 009: Leon McCarron & Tom Allen On Making Meaningful Journeys, Off The Beaten Track

PK Podcast 008: Chris Townsend, Backpacking Legend

PK Podcast 007: Jules Pretty, Travels With Enduring People In Vanishing Lands

PK Podcast 006: Winter Outdoor Life Tips, Thoughts And Perspectives

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