The Nature Room Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:44:19 -0500 https://natureroom.buzzsprout.com en-gb © 2026 The Nature Room yes 20bb9cc7-9a2e-5a34-9c26-da76bf03fee6 Ashley Coates episodic false Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Ashley Coates https://storage.buzzsprout.com/znjmx8psifnsqbphgvh3hxemx5hk?.jpg The Nature Room How to make your garden a haven for wildlife How to make your garden a haven for wildlife Our gardens are sanctuaries for a range of plants and animals, many of them unique to their locality or endangered around the world. In this podcast, I ask the RSPB's in-house gardening expert, Adrian Thomas, for his top tips on how to best look after your garden.

Adrian is the author of RSPB Gardening for Wildlife, available in hardback and on Kindle here: https://amzn.to/39WGfmD. 

]]> Our gardens are sanctuaries for a range of plants and animals, many of them unique to their locality or endangered around the world. In this podcast, I ask the RSPB's in-house gardening expert, Adrian Thomas, for his top tips on how to best look after your garden.

Adrian is the author of RSPB Gardening for Wildlife, available in hardback and on Kindle here: https://amzn.to/39WGfmD. 

]]> Ashley Coates Buzzsprout-4847135 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0000 2736 1 6 full false Tyrannosaurs with Dr David Hone Tyrannosaurs with Dr David Hone An interview with Dr David Hone, author of The Tyrannosaur Chronicles (Bloomsbury, 2016), available on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2EYl8oA.

Dr David Hone is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Biological Sciences Programmes at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a palaeontologist, writer and science communicator who specialises in the behaviour and ecology of the dinosaurs and pterosaurs. He has named over 15 species of prehistoric animal.

In this episode, we discuss the tyrannosaurs, a family of (sometimes very large) predatory dinosaurs who lived on Earth for over 100 million years.

Davis is also the host of his own - really excellent - podcast - Terrible Lizards, which I briefly mention in the introduction. Download and subscribe! https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/

]]> An interview with Dr David Hone, author of The Tyrannosaur Chronicles (Bloomsbury, 2016), available on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2EYl8oA.

Dr David Hone is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Biological Sciences Programmes at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a palaeontologist, writer and science communicator who specialises in the behaviour and ecology of the dinosaurs and pterosaurs. He has named over 15 species of prehistoric animal.

In this episode, we discuss the tyrannosaurs, a family of (sometimes very large) predatory dinosaurs who lived on Earth for over 100 million years.

Davis is also the host of his own - really excellent - podcast - Terrible Lizards, which I briefly mention in the introduction. Download and subscribe! https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/

]]> Ashley Coates Buzzsprout-4156499 Sat, 13 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000 4253 1 5 full false How you can help the planet through citizen science projects How you can help the planet through citizen science projects If you are interested in taking a hands-on approach to protecting nature, there are loads of fascinating citizen science projects you can take part in - some don't even require you to leave your desk, others involve looking at lovely pictures of penguins...or listening to bird song. There is something for everyone so check them out!

]]> If you are interested in taking a hands-on approach to protecting nature, there are loads of fascinating citizen science projects you can take part in - some don't even require you to leave your desk, others involve looking at lovely pictures of penguins...or listening to bird song. There is something for everyone so check them out!

]]> Ashley Coates Buzzsprout-3998960 Mon, 01 Jun 2020 14:00:00 +0000 833 1 4 full false Hedgehog Awareness Week 2020 Hedgehog Awareness Week 2020 An interview with author and ecologist Hugh Warwick, recorded in the run up to Hedgehog Awareness Week, a UK-based celebration of all-things hedgehog. We discussed what it is like to get to know a hedgehog, how Hugh came to be "Mr Hedgehog" and how we can better look after these wonderful animals. 

]]> An interview with author and ecologist Hugh Warwick, recorded in the run up to Hedgehog Awareness Week, a UK-based celebration of all-things hedgehog. We discussed what it is like to get to know a hedgehog, how Hugh came to be "Mr Hedgehog" and how we can better look after these wonderful animals. 

]]> Ashley Coates Buzzsprout-3590626 Sat, 02 May 2020 13:00:00 +0000 1568 1 3 full false The Victorian women who founded the RSPB The Victorian women who founded the RSPB An interview with Tessa Boase, author of "Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism – Women's Fight for Change", which is available on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/3fgtnZv.

Few people are aware that the RSPB, Europe’s largest conservation organisation by membership, was founded by Victorian women working to end the cruelty of the feather trade.

 Established in a house in Manchester 130 years ago this year, the Society for the Protection of Birds was initiated by Emily Williamson, the wife of a middle-class solicitor. An organisation with the same aims, known as Fur, Fin and Feather Folk, was set up in London by Eliza Phillips and merged with the SPB in 1891.  

Active years before the suffragette movement, Emily Williamson, Eliza Phillips and the fastidious campaigner Etta Lemon, were fair-sighted activists who utilised all the tools of communication available at the time, successfully capturing society’s hearts and minds and helping to bring about a change in consumer behaviour as well as some of the first laws to protect wildlife. 

]]> An interview with Tessa Boase, author of "Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism – Women's Fight for Change", which is available on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/3fgtnZv.

Few people are aware that the RSPB, Europe’s largest conservation organisation by membership, was founded by Victorian women working to end the cruelty of the feather trade.

 Established in a house in Manchester 130 years ago this year, the Society for the Protection of Birds was initiated by Emily Williamson, the wife of a middle-class solicitor. An organisation with the same aims, known as Fur, Fin and Feather Folk, was set up in London by Eliza Phillips and merged with the SPB in 1891.  

Active years before the suffragette movement, Emily Williamson, Eliza Phillips and the fastidious campaigner Etta Lemon, were fair-sighted activists who utilised all the tools of communication available at the time, successfully capturing society’s hearts and minds and helping to bring about a change in consumer behaviour as well as some of the first laws to protect wildlife. 

]]> Ashley Coates Buzzsprout-3554746 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:00:00 +0000 2432 1 2 full false Pilot Episode - World Curlew Day 2020 Pilot Episode - World Curlew Day 2020 The first episode of All Things Green, looking at the state of the world's eight curlew species on World Curlew Day. 


]]> The first episode of All Things Green, looking at the state of the world's eight curlew species on World Curlew Day. 


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