In which I am interviewed for a ‘radio’ documentary.
A face for radio
Writing
All of my articles, reviews, notebook entries, and newsletters gathered in one place.
Where has all the heather gone?
The Moor is looking decidedly lacklustre this August.
Newsletter No. 14: The terror Carter’s warriors
Liverpool · chinese warriors · Ben Myers · shoes on wires · Patti Smith · Wuthering Heights · stratigraphy · astronomy · ancient DNA · storm petrels · LIMONCELLO ICE CREAM!!
Limoncello ice-cream recipe
An easy-peasy recipe that doesn’t require an ice-cream machine.
Book review: ‘Unnatural Selection’ by Katrina van Grouw
Art meets science in this stunningly illustrated book.
The Rough Patch
On the advantages of being a crap gardener.
Book review: ‘The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being’ by Alice Roberts
Evolution and the making of us.
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Backyard’ by James T Costa
How small experiments led to a big theory.
Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
Book review: ‘Victorians Undone’ by Kathryn Hughes
Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum.