Writing
Filter writing: Sidelines (blog) • Newsletters • Reviews
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A face for radio
In which I am interviewed for a ‘radio’ documentary.
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Where has all the heather gone?
The Moor is looking decidedly lacklustre this August.
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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!! • and more…
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Book review: ‘Unnatural Selection’ by Katrina van Grouw
Art meets science in this stunningly illustrated book.
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The Rough Patch
On the advantages of being a crap gardener.
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Going camera-less
Taking walks without lugging around a massive camera bag: it’ll never catch on!
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Book review: ‘The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being’ by Alice Roberts
Evolution and the making of us.
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Book review: ‘Darwin’s Backyard’ by James T Costa
How small experiments led to a big theory.
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Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
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Book review: ‘Victorians Undone’ by Kathryn Hughes
Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum.
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Newsletter No. 13: ‘Bramblings!’
Bramblings • wheatears • Mary Beard • Beaker folk • Meera Sodha • recipes • John Tyndall • Eunice Foote • religion • Ben Myers • Austin Kleon • Walter Benjamin • giant sloths • Shetland • Neil Ansell • Charles Darwin • and more…
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Book review: ‘In Patagonia’ by Bruce Chatwin
Wandering about Patagonia with no clear plan in mind.