Wilderness Tracks // Timber Festival
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BBC Radio 4's Geoff Bird presents the Wilderness Tracks; an hour long discussion with a selection of guests asking them to choose six tracks which soundtrack their relationship with nature.

Gavin Esler

Broadcast journalist Gavin Esler discusses his politically charged book How Britain Ends - how he travelled across the devolved four nations of Britai...
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Simon Armitage

After a brilliant 2021 Timber Festival, we're back with another episode from this year's celebration in the National Forest. Poet Laureate, ...
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Julie Hesmondhalgh

Beloved Lancashire actor, known for playing Hayley Cropper on Coronation Street, Julie Hesmondhalgh joins us for Wilderness Tracks recorded live at Ti...
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Dame Evelyn Glennie

Dame Evelyn Glennie, arguably the world's premier percussionist talks us through creating the sound of icicles, growing up in remote Scotland, th...
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Cal Major

Cal Major: ocean advocate, veterinary surgeon,adventure-seeker and proper paddleboarder sits down with Geoff Bird to discuss her six nature related tr...
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Melissa Harrison

Novelist and nature writer, Melissa Harrison takes Goeff Bird on a walk around her rural Suffolk locale to discuss her six nature related tracks. Her ...
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Baroness Floella Benjamin

The beloved actress and childrens tv presenter, Baroness Floelle Benjamin talks of nurturing her family garden, the velvety qualities of Sarah Vaughan...
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Max Porter

The author of 'Grief is the Thing with Feathers' and 'Lanny', Max Porter,  walks with Geoff through a woodland near Bath, talks ab...
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Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock

The space scientist and BBC presenter of The Sky at Night, joins Geoff Bird to discuss her obsession with the moon, viewing the lights of London from ...
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Phill Jupitus

Geoff sits down with one of our best-loved comedians; sometime artist and Never Mind the Buzzcocks veteran Phill Jupitus. They talk travelling, the ph...
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