Your Wild Streets

As we cross the threshold of the winter solstice, Alena is joined by Satish Kumar - former Jain monk, peace pilgrim, and one of the UK’s most influential ecological thinkers - for a deeply grounding conversation about how we live, what we value and how we care for the world around us. From walking 8,000 miles for peace without money, to his guiding philosophy of soil, soul and society, Satish refl...

Politics of the Pavement (Part 1) with Jack Wallington In this first half of our Politics of the Pavement two-parter, we prise up the paving slabs and look at how our streets and gardens became so obsessively neat and what we’ve lost along the way. From Victorian ideals of respectability to the post-war pesticide boom, this episode traces how control and order were built into our landscapes. We ex...

In this episode, we’re joined by the brilliant Mary Reynolds - former Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winner turned rewilding activist and founder of the We Are The ARK movement. Mary shares her powerful journey from designing pristine gardens to championing wild, messy, life-filled outdoor spaces and challenges us to stop seeing ourselves as gardeners and start seeing ourselves as guardians. Befor...

In this first episode of Your Wild Streets , we’re setting the scene from glyphosate-sprayed verges to messy, life-filled corners of our gardens. Hosts Alena and Roisin share their own journeys into campaigning, swap garden fails and introduce the growing movement calling for pesticide-free, biodiversity-rich public spaces across the UK. In this episode: A round-up of recent nature news: the good,...