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Episode 6
Lizzie Harper is a freelance natural history and botanical illustrator with a keen love of nature. Her favourite subjects are grasses, beetles, and wild flowers. Her scientific training as a zoologist helps complement her illustrations.
She works in watercolour, pencil, and pen. With over 25 years’ experience as a free-lance illustrator, she has a broad range of clients.
Publishers, environmental charities, postage stamp designers, packaging firms, design companies, and private individuals have all commissioned her illustrations. She’s illustrated The Hedgerow Handbook, The Garden Forager, and Foraging with Kids by Adele Nozedar. Her work is in the HarperCollins Flower Guide by Streeter, and The Bumper Book of Nature by Stephen Moss. Her illustrations appear in National geographic and BBC Countryfile Magazine.
Lizzie loves nothing more than spending a day immersed in the beautiful landscape round her home in Wales; where she investigates slugs and mosses, and does sketchbook studies of the wild flowers she finds. She works from her garden studio in Hay on Wye where she lives very happily with a long-suffering husband and two lively children.
Find Lizzie here:
https://lizzieharper.co.uk/
Referenced in this episode:
Collins Wild Flower Guide by David Streeter (Illustrated by Lizzie)
New flora of the British Isles by Clive Stace
Drawings of British plants by Stella Ross-Craig
Understanding the Flowering Plants: A Practical Guide for Botanical Illustrators by Anne Bebbington
Large piece of turf by Albrecht Dürer
Young Hare by Albrecht Dürer
The Wild Flowers of the British Isles by David Streeter and Ian Garrard
Illuminated manuscripts
Franz Bauer
Sketch of a Blue Swimmer crab by Ferdinand Bauer
Roses (1817-1821) and Lillies (1802-1815) by Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Metamorphosis of the insects of Suriname by Maria Sibylla Merian
Clutius Botanical Watercolours collected by Theodorus Clutius
Fruit portraits by William Hooker
Ernst Haeckel
Fungus and spider illustrations by Beatrix Potter
Margaret Mee
A Life on our Planet: My Witness Statement and Vision for the Future by David Attenborough and illustrated by Lizzie Harper
The Birds of America by John James Audubon
Winsor and Newton Series 7, #1 brush
Dr. Ph. Martin's Hydrus Watercolour Paints
Fluid 100 Watercolor Hot Press paper
Stonehenge Aqua paper
Survivors by Richard Fortey
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
Charles Dickens
Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
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Episode 5
Fergus Drennan is a wild food experimentalist and educator, he runs regular full day total immersion foraging courses for the general public and privately. He has written regularly on wild food and foraging for BBC Countryfile Magazine, The Ecologist, Country Kitchen, Bushcraft and Survival Skills Magazine, as well as contributing and/or featuring in many other magazines including most national newspapers.
Find Fergus here:
https://fergustheforager.co.uk/
Referenced in this episode:
Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief by editors Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen Landman Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder Wild Food by Roger Phillips The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram Becoming Animal by David Abram
With thanks:
Artwork by Andrew O'Carroll - instagram.com/andrew.ocarroll
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Episode 4
Dr Keith Kirby is the author of the book 'Woodland Flowers' published by Bloomsbury, and part of the British Wildlife Collection series. He is a visiting researcher at Oxford University. His research interests include: Temperate forest ecology, management and conservation; grazing in wooded systems. Now retired after more than thirty years with Natural England and its predecessors, his work is focused on issues relating to the conservation and management of British woodland.
Find Keith here: https://theoldmanofwytham.com/
Referenced in this episode: Grazing Ecology and Forest History by Franz Vera. Wytham Woods - https://www.wythamwoods.ox.ac.uk/home Roudsea Wood – Owned by Natural England.
With thanks:
Artwork by Andrew O'Carroll - instagram.com/andrew.ocarroll
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Episode 3
Mariette Manktelow is a scientist involved in the field of tropical botany and a specialist on the Linnaean cultural heritage in Sweden and other countries. She has a unique knowledge of Linnaeus' teaching methods and the extant living flowers from his garden. She has a university award in teaching skills and She was the project leader at the Municipality of Uppsala during the Linnaeus Tercentenary in 2007. In this episode we talk primarily about Linnaeus, and Women in Botany.
Find Mariette here: florahistorica.se
Referenced in this episode: Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860 - Ann B. Shteir
With thanks:
Artwork by Andrew O'Carroll - instagram.com/andrew.ocarroll
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Episode 2
In this episode I visit John Wright at his home in West Dorset. John is passionate about fungi, writing, and homebrewing. John is an expert forager, many of us will have first encountered him in the River Cottage television series. Of all the books John has written, The Naming of the Shrew is his favourite. John loves latin names, etymology, and language; fortunately for all of us, John agreed to talk about those topics for this audio recording. He encourages you to forage through his writings, forays, talks and occasionally, TV and radio appearances.
Find John here: ediblebush.com and follow him on twitter @johnmushroom
Note: Looks like vulpinus is actually 'fox-like'.
Referenced in this episode:
Composition of Scientific Words – Roland Wilbur Brown A Source-Book of Biological Names and Terms – Edmund C. Jaeger Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners - William T. Stearn Naming the Living World - Theodore Savory
With thanks:
Artwork by Andrew O'Carroll - instagram.com/andrew.ocarroll
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Episode 1
Stephen Heard is an evolutionary ecologist and entomologist at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. Before joining the University, he was on the faculty at the University of Iowa. He is particularly interested in plant-insect interactions, and is the author of the book The Scientists Guide to Writing published by Princeton University Press. Stephen is the author of the blog Scientist Sees Squirrel, this is where I first discovered Stephen. In this episode I talk to Stephen about Latin names, particularly eponymous and special names.
Find Stephen here: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com and follow him on twitter @StephenBHeard
Referenced in this episode:
The Art of Naming - Michael Ohl Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science - Carol Kaesuk Yoon
With thanks:
Artwork by Andrew O'Carroll - instagram.com/andrew.ocarroll
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