The Beauty and Challenge of Diversity
2022-03-09
Recently I had the pleasure of recording a conversation with longstanding forestry colleague, Jez Ralph, for his inspirational podcast series at Tree Radicals.Continue Reading
Ash dieback paper kindles national interest
2019-05-07
Today, the media picked up on the importance of the scientific paper which I revealed yesterday, which calculates the economic cost of ash dieback in Britain to total £15 billion.Continue Reading
Brave botanist who fell off the edge of the world
2019-05-03
It was great to see my book Green Gold featured in The Daily Mail’s book section today, and a celebration of John Jeffrey as an ‘astronaut of the age’.Continue Reading
BBC Costing the Earth
2017-05-23
The Future of Forestry is the theme of today’s Radio 4 environmental programme Costing the Earth. I was interviewed by . . .Continue Reading
Talking resilient woods on BBC Radio
2015-09-11
I was interviewed recently about work I am helping lead on the British Woodlands Survey with the Sylva Foundation— this year exploring adaptation to environmental change. The piece was featured this morning BBC Radio 4 Farming Today.Continue Reading
Featured in Books of the Year list by Mail on Sunday
2014-12-01
The New Sylva features in Top Books of the Year by the Mail on Sunday. The New Sylva – A Discourse of Forest and Orchard Trees for the 21st Century by Gabriel Hemery and Sarah Simblet (Bloomsbury). An unparalleled understanding of our trees, updating John Evelyn’s 17th-century Sylva, the first comprehensiveContinue Reading
Interview with Will Gompertz on BBC Radio
2014-10-26
I’m looking forward to being interviewed this morning by BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz on BBC Radio Oxford. I will be talking about forests and the work of the Sylva Foundation — the Oxfordshire-based charity I co-founded five years ago — and The New Sylva which was released in the USContinue Reading
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking: Wood and Trees – War and Remembrance
2014-07-01
I joined Paul Gough and Gail Ritchie to discuss the meaning of trees and wood in war and peacetime for BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking.Continue Reading
BBC Radio Oxford interview
2011-05-08
An interview on BBC Radio Oxford today about the Sylva Foundation’s new initiative TreeWatch and other projects.Continue Reading
Interview on BBC Radio this morning
2011-02-20
I am being interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford this morning: http://wp.me/pRuGn-zSContinue Reading
Deutsche Welle Radio interview
2011-02-17
I was interviewed for a programme on Deutsche Welle Radio to discuss the UK Government’s proposals to sell England’s publicly-owned forests.Continue Reading
Film interview for BBC Newsnight
2011-01-26
A filmed interview for a BBC TV Newsnight programme – part of a featured debate on the Government’s plans to dispose of the public forest estate in England. Listen to my full interview.Continue Reading
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