Episodes

  • De Havilland Aircraft Museum Podcast – Part 1

    De Havilland Aircraft Museum Podcast – Part 1
    Jul 27 2022
    De Havilland is an important part of our local history and the De Havilland Aircraft Museum in London Colney documenrs this wonderfully. Jonny Seabrook was welcomed by Derek Lamb, a volunteer at the museum, who guided him around the museum. Their chat is here as a two part podcast. 
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  • Why do birds fly south for the winter?

    Why do birds fly south for the winter?
    Dec 6 2021
    Local nature correspondent Rupert Evershed asks a simple seasonal question – but the answer might not be the one you expect.
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  • Winter beds project

    Winter beds project
    Nov 28 2021
    Lucy Gaygusuz, Trustee at Open Door, tells Rob Pearman about the plans to help and then keep local rough sleepers off the streets for the second Covid winter.  This year – as last year – the project involves Open Door, Centre 33, Hightown Housing, Emmaus and the District Council and this year with the additional ... Read more
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  • Local wild life under threat

    Local wild life under threat
    Nov 16 2021
    Nature correspondent Rupert Evershed calls for support in the campaign to save Tyttenhanger Gravel Pits – home to a wide range of birds and other wildlife – from potential loss if the Bowmans Cross development proposed by Hertsmere Borough Council is approved.  Consultation closes on 6th December.
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  • A perfect storm

    A perfect storm
    Oct 11 2021
    John Mulholland, Trustee and Warehouse Manager at St Albans & District Foodbank, explains to Rob Pearman how the service works, how much it has increased over recent years (it now has six distribution points), and how the combination of increasing prices, the ending of the Covid uptick to Universal Credit and of the furlough scheme, ... Read more
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  • An old friend returns

    An old friend returns
    Oct 11 2021
    It’s been thirty years since local nature observer, writer and correspondent Rupert Evershed was last visited by a Spotted Flycatcher.  They had once been annual visitors so he was delighted to see them back again – even though now as migrants rather than nesting birds and also, sadly, on the ‘red list’ as an endangered ... Read more
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  • Nature’s variety

    Nature’s variety
    Sep 27 2021
    Local naturalist and correspondent Rupert Evershed (see podcast series: Local Life – Nature Notes) believes that experiencing nature’s variety is as good as a rest.  His recent experience of land and sea birds around The Scilly Isles included discoveries about the house sparrow and the magpie, but also an encounter with the rarely seen tiny ... Read more
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  • Tales of the Weird

    Tales of the Weird
    Sep 26 2021
    One of a series of publications by the British Library, ‘Crawling Horror – Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird’ is edited by Daisy Butcher and Janette Leaf, respectively postgraduate researchers at Hertfordshire University and Birkbeck, University of London.   They have searched the archives for 19th and 20th  century tales about insects – some good, some ... Read more
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