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West of England Combined Authority, Mayoral election hustings.

Hear a brief recording from each candidate in the race to become the next Mayor of the West of England combined authority, before the election on 1st May 2025.

Eating dogs and petting cows.

How we relate to other animals...Nature, 'wildlife', animal companions, animals who are farmed. What are the stories we are told and tell ourselves about other animals?

An interview with Paul Hoggett, discussing climate distress and denial, and how to help yourself with them.

This is an interview with Paul Hoggett, who recently wrote a book called Paradise Lost? The Climate Crisis and the Human Condition. He describes climate distress and disavowal, which is when you know about the climate crisis but do not think about it, so you both know about and ignore it. He also discusses climate denial and how some politicians are pushing it.  Finally, he discusses how we can help ourselves with climate distress.    As a bonus - we also hear an example of Paul's relaxing music.   

Our Earth Week Special - the one with Benji Bower talking to Anneka Rice about Terra Coda

Featuring composer Benji Bower talking to Anneka Sutcliffe about his album Terra Coda - a Symphonic Love Letter to the Earth.  
‘Terra Coda’ has been a lifelong project for Benji, intertwining exceptional musical depth with his unwavering commitment to pivotal environmental concerns. Conceptually rich, it explores musical, political and environmental dimensions, reflecting Benji’s journey and meticulous attention to detail. The Terra Collective Orchestra boasts an impressive array of experience, having worked for, produced, engineered or toured with renowned artists such as The Heritage Orchestra, Portishead, Bonobo, PJ Harvey, Massive Attack, This Is The Kit, Alice Russell, Anoushka Shankar, Peter Gabriel, Elbow, Madness, John Rutter, Sam Cooke, John Williams, Cinematic Orchestra, Paraorchestra and many more. The collective debuted in May 2022 with a three-night residency in Bristol at “The Mount Without”, part of the Mayfest Arts Festival. This residency, featuring 50 orchestra members, sold out every night with 200-250 attendees. Following this success, they performed at the Falmouth Arts Festival, delivering two sold-out shows for 300 people each night, again with 50 performers.
https://benjibower.bandcamp.com/album/terra-coda
MUSIC:
Extracts from Terra Coda performed by the Terra Coda Collective Orchestra
7'13" Leviathan featuring Harriet Riley
17'50 Descent featuring Melanie Marshall
27'44 Sylvan
 

Our Earth Week Special - the one with Sangeeta Dewan and Penny Southgate talking about ways to cut our emissions

Our Earth Week Special - How can we as individuals contribute to reducing carbon emissions?  Sangeeta Dewan and Penny Southgate talk about the different levels of action we can take, from making small practical changes, to bigger levers such as voting and where we put our money, and finally to the more fundamental shifts in the way we think about the world. 
Music: Rainy Eyes - produced by Tom Southgate

Our Earth Week 2024 Special - the one with Saturday Edition and composer David Adams

As part of this year's Our Earth Week, Charlie Morris from BCfm's Saturday Edition show talks to composer David Adams about the Bozarts World's End Poetry Competition 2024, inviting people to craft climate change-inspired poetry to one of two iconic melodies. 
 
David Adams creates, produces and manages projects under the Bozarts umbrella.  Based in Bristol UK, Bozarts is a collective of leading live performance and creative artists assembled and directed by David.  The Bozarts team is available for performances and concerts, education workshops and sessions, outreach programmes, concert programme and event design.
Poetry Competition: https://www.bozarts.co.uk/worldsendpoetrycompetition
Music: extracts from Holst's The Planets Jupiter (I Vow To Thee My Country), performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, and the Third Mode Melody by Thomas Tallis. 
Saturday Edition: https://www.bcfmradio.com/show/saturday-edition
 
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Bristol Airport is big enough - No more expansion.

Bristol Airport plans to increase its passenger numbers to 15 Million a year. 
It has been less than two years since the airport gained approval to expand from 10 million to 12 million passengers annually. Residents and Bristol Airport Action Network (BAAN) campaign group are gearing up for another battle against the airport as they now want to expand to 15M passengers annually.  Keep up to date with this story at  https://bristolairportactionnetwork.wordpress.com/ 
Nigel (One Love One Planet radio host) and Richard Baxter from BAAN discuss: 
The impact of aircraft on the climate emergency. 
Can commercial aircraft become sustainable within the foreseeable future? 
What is the airports' on the communities that live near by, such as pollution and noise, and traffic congestion?
The story of how the local community took on the airport and persuaded North Somerset Council to turn down their initial expansion plans, and how ultimately Michael Gove reversed that decision. 
Finally, what are BAAN's plans to challenge Bristol Airport again as they apply for permission to further expand passenger numbers, and how you can join their campaign. 
 

Our Earth Week Special - The one with Christina Wheeler talking to Roma Widger about the Green Pledge Project.

OUR EARTH WEEK 2024 - featuring highlights from BCfm's contribution to this national event on community radio, which broadcast in November. 
This episode features the Roma Widger Show featuring Christina Wheeler talking about the Green Pledge Project.
Christina is the Project Manager of the Green Pledge Project at Gloucestershire Archives. The project delves into the rich seam of environmentally significant records held at the archives and shares them through events, exhibitions and podcasts. Comparing historic records around climate change and biodiversity loss with contemporary records is illuminating and helps us to understand what the local area was like in a time before living memory.
Christina talks to Roma about one of their series of podcasts about two dawn choruses, recorded in the same place and month, but seventy years apart. In 1950s Wotton, Harry Grimes took his Grundig reel to reel recorder to the edge of the woods and recorded the cacophony of the early morning birdsong. In the background you can hear the steam train and the 5am church bells. Christina and Harry’s son Hugo took this 1950s and 2024 recordings to bird expert Ed Drewitt, to discuss the changes that Ed can hear.
To find out more about the project and listen to the podcasts visit : The Green Pledge Project | Gloucestershire ArchivesThis project made possible thanks to National Lottery Heritage Funding. 
Music: Spice Garden by Drill Run.  Licenced from Audiio. 
 

Gleaning, Food Security, and Pumpkins - with Laura Bottin from the Avon Gleaning Network

We talk to Laura Bottin from the Avon Gleaning Network all about the ancient practice of gleaning, which is seeing a resurgence, and how this benefits our mental health while also tackling food poverty and food waste. We even get into the details of different types of pumpkins and which ones are best for cooking!
 
You can find out more about them here, including about volunteering: https://avongleaning.org.uk/
 
This is Shona's last episode with One Love One Planet as she is expecting a baby later this year and taking some time out for that! Remember, if you're missing your regular dose of One Love One Planet, you can go back through all our previous podcasts to catch up on the interviews you missed!

Protecting Local Biodiversity - with Chris Kinchin-Smith and Maurice Tennenhaus from Friends of Lyncombe Hill Fields

Chris and Maurice, founders and co-directors of the Friends of Lyncombe Hill Fields, tell us all about the volunteer project to preserve wild space in the centre of Bath - and different mowing techniques, and how local schools have been able to get involved!
 
https://friendsoflyncombehillfields.co.uk/