THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST

Sol-stice Sun stands still. The longest day. The shortest night. here’s an Earth Sessions mix from me inspired by dancing at sunrise and sunsets. or as Bucky Fuller put it… Sun-sight and sun-eclipse As the sun isn’t moving But we of course are on Spaceship Earth. Gratitude to all the artists and producers for creating these tracks. Full tracklist on https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast Listen on...

This episode was a live panel recording from the We Are Avon community gathering in May.  If you're a regular listener, you'll know about place-based initiative and bioregional project, We Are Avon , based in the Avon Valley in the West of England, where I live. A movement working to regenerate the landscapes, rivers, and communities of the Avon catchment. This conversation is an exploration aroun...

In this solo offering nested with the Hazels on Ghostwood Down - I’m rambling on: * Relationality, mystery, place and local participation. * Spaces for sanctuary and falling apart. * Regeneration through transformation and the deeper shifts required in times of unraveling and overwhelm. This is not reflections about fixing the world through better ideas, but about changing the way we relate - to o...

A new Earth Sessions mix from me: Springing To mark the light returning, the sun rising, warmth, blossoms popping, life coming back, possibility… love. A mix of vinyl and digital spanning 30 years - deep, housey, organic, trippy, vibey, and lively. I hope it makes you move wherever you are. With gratitude to the wonderful artists, producers and labels for these creations Tracklist via the Spaceshi...

We are kicking the podcast off this year with a warm spring offering from Dan and a few Willow trees up at Ghostwood Down. ‘Ghostwood Down?’ You may be wondering - where is that… what is that? Well, we welcome you friend Up into the hills surrounding Bath. There rests a magical Ghostwood - a land which was once the place of a great forest A land riddled with scars, gold dust, earnest joy and deep...

I originally recorded this episode with Chris Hines, EP 17, seven years ago in 2019. I’ve decided to repost it now. This week in the UK we had the launch of the Channel 4 real life drama series - Dirty Business A three part doc-drama based on a decade-long investigation into England’s water companies, it follows the story of two unlikely citizen detectives who notice that the fish in their local r...

In the last few years I’ve been recording DJ mixes at particular moments in the Earth cycle and putting them out on the podcast - Earth sessions - they are a way for me to mark the season, the moment in the year and how it makes me feel and how it makes me want to move through electronic and dance music. This is a new one. A live mix to honour this darker time of the year, and the darker times unf...

Right then, this is our final episode of this year. But first up to say a big hearty thank you to all who have listened, shared and supported the podcast this year. To all the guests who’ve joined the rambling - respect for your time, wisdom and open-ness. And to my podcast crew who help make this a reality - Charlie Shread, Seemah Nahome-Burgess and Fin Burgess. And a massive shout out to those w...

This is a short share about a winter learning journey we are hosting for the 4th year- Into the Dark It begins on the evening of 20th January 2026, registration is open until 9th January. Into the dark invites us to enter a container over five weeks, to co-create our orientation and intentionality for the year ahead in community - human and more-than-human. It's a deep, gentle, experiential  journ...

This Episode is a live panel recording. If you’re a regular listener you may know about a bio-regional regeneration project called We Are Avon - in the Avon River Valley in the West of England where I live. EP 98 and EP 102 have both featured the project. In the last few years I’ve been putting more intention, time and energy into projects rooted into the lands around me where I live. A big part o...

What if music isn’t just entertainment, but a remembering? A returning. A way back into the felt sense of being part of nature, not apart from nature. In this intuitive, playful, open and wide-ranging conversation, I sit down with Sophia Shnapp - an impact producer working with organisations like EarthPercent - the Music Industry’s Climate and Nature Foundation alongside the Wisdom Keepers Delegat...

What does it mean to be a man - alive, tender and creative - in these unravelling times? In this meandering, vulnerable and playful conversation, I sit down with Mark De’Lisser - poet, artist, youth mentor, and nature-based guide. Mark is a friend and collaborator, part of the Becoming Crew action learning collective, guiding people through deep connection experiences and rites of passage on the l...

How can we learn to dance with complexity, contradiction, grief, beauty, uncertainty, horror and surprise without abandoning the dance-floor ? Dancing feels like an interesting invitational metaphor to me for these times It invites us into the body and out of our stuck heads. It invites us into presence and relationship with life in the moment, To be present with our bodies, with each other, with...

🎧 Listening Invitation What does it mean to practice democracy not just with people, but with rivers, forests, mountains, and the more-than-human world? In this episode, I’m in conversation with Shrishtee Bajpai —researcher, activist, and writer working on earthy governance, interspecies justice, and radical alternatives to dominant systems . Shrishtee’s work emerges from her deep relationship wi...

What does it mean to live—and act—when the dominant stories of our time are collapsing? This conversation with Jon Alexander was recorded in July on the land at Ghostwood Down, just before he set out on an overnight solo. It is raw, intimate, unplanned—full of the wild energy of two men wrestling with collapse and possibility in equal measure. Jon, author of Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everyth...

What happens when we step away from the noise of modernity and sit quietly with the land, with our dreams, with each other? In this intimate conversation, Dan speaks with Betsy Perluss —esteemed elder, Wilderness Guide with the School of Lost Borders, Jungian analyst, and psychotherapist. Betsy has spent decades guiding people into the wild, into themselves, and into the shared spaces where land a...

What does it take to reforest a country that’s forgotten its forests? In this grounded and wide-ranging conversation, I sit down with surfer, grower, and land-restorer Matt Smith —co-founder and CEO of the Hometree charity in Ireland. A lifelong wave-rider turned regenerative farmer, and landscape rewilder, Matt has poured his vision and determination into one of the most ambitious rewilding effor...

What if the maps we’ve been using to make sense of the world…are no longer capable of guiding us? What if the future no longer works ? In this immersive audio essay, I’m taking you on a spiralling journey through the unraveling terrain of modernity. Naming the deep violence coded into its dominant logics, and inviting us to compost the spoiled maps that have brought us to this moment of planetary...

What does it mean to act — not out of certainty, but out of grief and relational sensing ? In this quietly powerful episode, Dan sits on the land with Gavin Fernie-Jones, co-founder of the Re-Action Collective, to explore how deep connection to place, the loss of his father, and the visible unraveling of mountain ecologies catalysed a life of collective action. From ski lifts to community sewing t...

Greetings to the Summer Solstice Here in the Northern Hemisphere The sun is at peak power These next days are the longest Until we begin the gentle swing back towards darker times. This morning my fellow guide Mark Sears sent me this poem from Persian Poet and Mystic - Hafiz which I shared on our call. The Sun Never Says Even after all this time The sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me.” Look...

New episode 102 - this is an audio adventure featuring a live panel conversation from the launch of new bio-regional project We Are Avon and musings from a Pilgrimage along the River Avon herself in the last week. Across the UK more and more communities are engaging with the deteriorating health of their local rivers and wild waters. From cold water swimmers, fishermen to local food growers, conse...

I posted this episode two years ago on this day. I’m thinking it might have more relevance and be more helpful today to more folks around here. Context is king and all that. Maybe as more folks begin to bear witness to this old world imploding, to this civilisational story ending, perhaps we are becoming ready to figure out what work we are being called to do ‘in the ruins’ as Dougald Hine might s...

Introducing the Annual 2024 - and the official Episode 100 of the Spaceship Earth Podcast. A reflection of the year gone by with a nod to what it might be showing us about the future that is unfolding. A curation of the highlights of 2024 on the podcast, it features clips, reflections, insights and learnings from many of the episodes. It’s not exhaustive, not every guest is featured but I’ve inclu...

Two winter offerings for you. Two invitations to step into the dark. I am not ready to get back to it - whatever it is. But just beginning to find some slowness and stillness in my body. After crawling through the portal of the Winter Solstice and into the festiveness of things. The last two days actually feel like winter here. The ground is frozen. The stars shine extraordinary at night. I can fe...

Episode 99 is a shorter offering with the wise, wonderful and humble Azul Carolina Duque. Azul is a Colombian artist and educator. Her artistic practice is about relating to embodied sound as a tool for re-membering ourselves out of our collective denials. These explorations are informed by her training as a musician, a death doula and a clown. She is also on the path of relating to music as a liv...