Best Bct Podcasts (2024)

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How to get a bat licence - with Richard Crompton 41:18

5M ago41:18

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Send us a Text Message. S5E55 Sat in the entrance to a cave in Wales, hidden amongst temperate rainforest, Richard Crompton gives you his insight into the best way to go about getting your bat licence. Richard has been training ecologists for many years now with around 400 people coming to his courses over the years. In this episode you'll hear abo…

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Bats at the National Trust 25:54

5M ago25:54

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Send us a Text Message. S5E54 This week Steve sits down with Joanne Hodgkins, nature conservation advisor for the National Trust. Sitting in the hot August sunshine at The Vyne near Basingstoke, Steve finds out how the National Trust cares not just for it's special places, but for it's special wildlife. Jo explains how bats are now a day to day par…

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The sonic success of David King; Inventor of BatBox detectors 30:06

5M ago30:06

30:06

Send us a Text Message. S5E53 This week we join David King who created the BatBox III and BatBox Duet detectors amongst several others for four decades. David tells Steve of how it all came about and they delve into the history of bat detecting, how the Bat Detective book and CD was created and we get an insight into his views on the future of tech…

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Bat Tracking; the drones changing the way we can undertake research 33:24

6M ago33:24

33:24

Send us a Text Message. S5E52 Steve calls in to Canberra, Australia to chat with Dr Debbie Saunders. For over 20 years Debbie has worked as an ecologist and studied the movements of small migratory birds. This includes the Swift Parrot, one of Australia’s most endangered birds. Like many small animals, Swift Parrots could only be tracked with tiny,…

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Bats in the Channel: Jersey Bat Group 34:10

6M ago34:10

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Send us a Text Message. S5E51 Join Steve in early summer on the Island of Jersey as he sits down with a trio from the bat group. In this interview we hear about the historic work of the group and the sort of survey work being done at the moment on the Island. With 18 bat species recorded on this 46 square miles of land just off the French coast, we…

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Boathouse to Bat House 33:10

7M ago33:10

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Send us a Text Message. S5E50 On the edge of Kidderminster lies Hurcott Pool and Wood Nature Reserve. An old boathouse on the edge of the pool has been repurposed by Worcestershire Bat Group and a few minutes away lies Lea Castle Village where the street lighting has been designed with bats at the forefront of its design. We join bat group members …

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Walking with bats 33:11

7M ago33:11

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Send us a Text Message. S5E49 This week we join BCT member Mark Ferguson who has just released his latest album; Walking With Bats. What does it sound like to go bat detecting? From start to finish, this question has underpinned Walking with Bats. Mark's main goal throughout the album's development has been simple: to transport listeners directly t…

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The Lifesaving Legacy of Livingstone's Fruit Bats at Jersey Zoo 35:22

8M ago35:22

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Send us a Text Message. S5E48 Jersey Zoo in the Channel Islands is home to 90% of the world's captive population of Livingstone's fruit bats. With an estimated 1300 in the wild, this captive breeding programme is vital to the survival of the species in a disaster event. We join Dominic Wormell inside the bat enclosure as he explains how they care f…

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Gargoyle Guardians: A Bat Count at Lacock Abbey with the Wiltshire Bat Group 24:28

8M ago24:28

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Send us a Text Message. S5E47 On the edge of the Cotswolds lies Lacock Abbey, home to Professor Quirrel's classroom and the Mirror of Erised. But whilst millions of people will recognise the Cloisters of the Abbey used in the filming of the Harry Potter franchise, a rather special spectacle can be found here once the sun goes down. A soprano pipist…

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The Bechstein's of Bracketts 42:19

9M ago42:19

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Send us a Text Message. S5E46 Hidden in west Dorset is a nature reserve which holds a very special secret. A bat box scheme which was installed in the late 1990's is home to one of the most well-studied colonies of Bechstein's bats. Join Steve as he spends the day with the Vincent Wildlife Trust and Dorset Wildlife Trust as they undertake one of th…

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It's time for Series 5! 2:04

9M ago2:04

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Send us a Text Message. BatChat Series 5 is set to kick off on Wednesday November 1st, with an exciting lineup of guests and fascinating interviews. Stay tuned for more great content and enriching conversations. Don't forget to check out the accompanying video on YouTube for more batty content. Mark your calendars, set your reminders and get ready …

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A new exhibition of wildlife sound at the British Library 29:01

1y ago29:01

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Send us a Text Message. S4E45 - Bonus! This summer, in a major new exhibition, you can see how documenting the animal world has resulted in some of humankind’s most awe-inspiring art, science and sound recordings: Animals: Art, Science and Sound is now open at the British Library Part of the exhibition is dedicated to darkness and Steve got to have…

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Wild Isles 38:38

1+ y ago38:38

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Send us a Text Message. S4E44 - Bonus! The landmark nature documentary series Wild Isles, presented by Sir David Attenborough is currently transmitting on Sunday's at 7pm on BBC One. The fourth episode "Freshwater" features a fabulous bat sequence, recorded in Yorkshire of the phenomenon of autumn swarming. Back in November as the series had entere…

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The History of Bat Conservation with Dr Bob Stebbings 46:47

1+ y ago46:47

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Send us a Text Message. S4E43 As series four comes to a close, Steve sits down with a titan of bat conservation. Dr Robert (Bob) Stebbings is one of the original bat workers in the UK and in this episode we hear about some of the major bat conservation work undertaken by Bob over the last half century. Make sure you follow the show so you get notif…

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Winged passions: The bat basement of Cliveden House 22:40

1+ y ago22:40

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Send us a Text Message. S4E42 This week Steve joins Chris Damant in the grounds of Cliveden House on the banks of the River Thames. As fine dining takes place in the hotel above them, Chris and his team have set up traps to catch bats as they arrive to mate in the middle of the night. Underneath the south terrace are a number of rooms which mimic u…

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Tony Hutson & the greater mouse-eared bat 37:18

1+ y ago37:18

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Send us a Text Message. S4E41 Tony Hutson has been shouting about bats since the 1960's and has changed the bat conservation landscape in that time. He was a founding member of the bat groups of Britain, the precursor to the Bat Conservation Trust. His survey work on the lonely greater mouse-eared bat inspired a play and he's been on expedition to …

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How the Western Link could affect the Western barbastelle 38:31

1+ y ago38:31

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Send us a Text Message. S4E40 In this interview recorded right at the end of August 2022, Steve is sat in a Norfolk woodland with Dr Charlotte Packman. We learn what potential impacts a new road in the area might have on the local bat populations and as Lotty explains it could have a significant impact on a nationally significant barbastelle bat po…

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The bat man of Mexico 28:11

1+ y ago28:11

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Send us a Text Message. S4E39 Rodrigo Medellín is Mexico's very own 'Bat Man'. Since he first kept vampire bats in his bathroom as a child, Rodrigo has dedicated his life to saving them. On the evening of the 2022 UK National Bat Conference, Steve sits down with Rodrigo and asks him what it felt like to succeed in taking the lesser long nosed bat o…

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Bat flies with Dr Erica McAlister 35:43

1+ y ago35:43

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Send us a Text Message. S4E38 We return to London's Natural History Museum. This time however, we're in the bowels of the Diptera collection with flygirl herself, Dr Erica McAlister. If you think you recognise that name it's because Erica has graced the airwaves several times before including BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage and The Life Scie…

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Haddon Hall 24:14

1+ y ago24:14

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Send us a Text Message. S4E37 Haddon Hall, the private residence of Lord and Lady Edward Manners, is set in the Peak District in the valley of the River Wye. With nine hundred years of history, it is one of the oldest houses in the country and moreover one of the only houses in England to have remained in one family’s ownership for its entire exist…

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The find of the century 35:12

1+ y ago35:12

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Send us a Text Message. S4E36 You join us in a secret location this week. Back in 2019, Scotty Dodd from the Sussex Bat Group made the most significant discovery in the history of the bat group...the first maternity roost of greater horseshoe bats in Sussex for one hundred years. Truly the find of the century! In a small dry valley surrounded by be…

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Bat roost visit service 35:55

1+ y ago35:55

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Send us a Text Message. S4E35 We're back with a brand new series! This week Steve joins a volunteer roost visitor, Chris Smith from Staffordshire Bat Group, on a roost visit requested by the Bat Conservation Trust. Chris discusses the value of the free service, how he got into volunteering for the visits and why he thinks it provides such a great p…

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Series 4 is nearly here! 3:24

1+ y ago3:24

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Send us a Text Message. BatChat is returning on 9th November 2022 with series 4 and we want to hear from you! Yes that's right; you guys, your voices, on this show. We want you to get in touch with your favourite bat experience. Maybe you discovered bats living in your house, you went on a bat walk for the first time or you saw bats somewhere you w…

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E40 - Building Linkedin Profile With Karen Tisdell, LinkedIn Profile Writer and Trainer 56:24

2y ago56:24

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Despite LinkedIn being the need of the hour, this episode is unique in its own right. This week's guest is one of the early users of LinkedIn, who has not only built her career through LinkedIn but has also helped a lot of people do the same. From being an account manager to HR recruiting to becoming LinkedIn's top voice in 2021, Karen Tisdell foll…

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E39 - Using Technologies To Impact Human Lives With Jaya Vaidhyanathan, CEO, BCT Digital 1:00:15

2y ago1:00:15

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The less traversed path comes with unique challenges that change the way we think. The guest of this week, Jaya Vaidhyanathan, has stretched her boundaries to show that we can accomplish whatever we set our minds to. Jaya was listed in the top 10 most influential women in tech and has also been named India's most trustworthy CEO. She started her ca…

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Knepp Rewilding Estate 38:04

2+ y ago38:04

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Send us a Text Message. S3E34 Hidden amongst the boughs of an Oak tree, Steve & his guests look down over the Knepp Castle Rewilding Estate; former farmland which has been allowed to return to nature by the owners Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell. In this episode, as the sun sets the light turns golden. Below us red deer begin to bellow at the start…

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E38 - From Door-to-Door Sales to Building a Technology Platform With Tinesh Chhaya, Founder, Decipher Cyber 48:15

2+ y ago48:15

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Do you want to start a side hustle? Do you want to shift from corporate to entrepreneurship? Then this episode is the answer to your questions. From finance to sales, From banking to cybersecurity, Tinesh Chhaya has experienced it all. He started his journey in finance but soon realized he needed to switch. He moved to sales, where he sold address …

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The National Bat Monitoring Programme 41:57

2+ y ago41:57

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Send us a Text Message. S3E33 Discover the amazing work taking place in the dead of night each year by hoards of volunteers. This episode starts with Steve joining a team of these volunteers who are counting out a brown long-eared bat roost in the Derbyshire Dales at dusk as a nearby rookery gathers. We then sit down in Battersea Park, London with …

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E37 - From a Programmer to Global Innovation Leader & CEO of a Startup Incubator/Accelerator, Malik Irfan 50:28

2+ y ago50:28

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Starting as a programmer, Malik Irfan has evolved into a Serial Entrepreneur and Innovation thought leader. Today, he runs a Start-up Accelerator as well as a successful IT Consulting Company. He is also the president of AIBC (Australia India Business Council – a 30+ years old non-profit organisation). There is a lot to learn from Malik’s experienc…

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Angela Mills; Bobby the brown long-eared bat 28:09

2+ y ago28:09

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Send us a Text Message. S3E32 Join Steve on the Welcombe Hills overlooking Stratford-upon-Avon as he sits down with the author of Bobby the brown long-eared bat, a children's book which follows the adventure of a baby brown long-eared bat who lives in the attic of a farmyard. Sitting in the autumn sunshine on a wooden bench watching the world go by…

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E36 - From The Study of Medicines to Tutoring Neurodivergent Kids and NLP Trainer With Fatema Kudrati, Director, Kip McGrath Education Centre Ringwood 30:23

2+ y ago30:23

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We often find it difficult to pursue our passions. This week's guest Fatema Kudrati shares how a medical school graduate got into child tutoring, development, and NLP training. In 2004, her son was diagnosed with ADHD, and that's when she realized it's not a learning difficulty, it's a teaching difficulty, and all brains can learn. She then started…

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E35 - Running a Portfolio Career With Founder and CEO of Wisedoc, Akash Kannegulla, Ph.D 43:52

2+ y ago43:52

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Most of us find it challenging to manage a job along with family. This week’s guest Akash Kannegulla shares how he manages a full-time job and a start-up alongwith a family. He is a perfect example of living his passion, working for a cause and perseverance. While pursuing his Phd in nano-photonics (heard of it before?), he ventured into the world …

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Bat conservation in action with Jim Mullholland 27:59

2+ y ago27:59

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Send us a Text Message. S3E31 This week Steve is on the Tortworth Estate in south Gloucestershire with Jim Mullholland. They're joined by a voluntary team of arborists who are assisting Jim with his 5 year project to create natural tree features for Bechstein's and barbastelle bats. By using chainsaws to create different crevices and cavities withi…

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Bats at RHS Wisley 22:06

2+ y ago22:06

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Send us a Text Message. S3E30 This week Steve is in Surrey at RHS Garden Wisley with Principal Entomologist Dr Andrew Salisbury. Andrew sits down with Steve in the brand new wildlife garden outside their new laboratory building to tell us about the work the RHS do and how we can improve our gardens for wildlife including bats. This week we also hav…

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A bat call library with Martyn Cooke 25:34

2+ y ago25:34

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Send us a Text Message. S3E29 This week Steve joins Martyn Cooke outside a holiday cottage in Staffordshire as they set up a matrix of bat detectors to record the sound of Brandt's bats emerging from their roost before flying into the adjacent woodland. Martyn explains why he is recording the calls, why he's travelled all the way from Surrey to rec…

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E34 - Starting Biz From Scratch in a New Country, With Naheed Khan, Founder of FuturWits 50:43

2+ y ago50:43

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Establishing your own company can be a little intimidating at times. Shifting to a new country is often challenging. Isn't it? Naheed dealt with all of it and is now a Transformational Learning and Development Consultant and a Co-Founder of Futurwits. She started her journey way back in 2004 as a Sales Trainee Manager at Bajaj Life Insurances. And …

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E33 - From Chef to Airline CEO, With Koustav Dhar, CEO At Zoom Air 56:00

2+ y ago56:00

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Success leaves clues. It's intriguing how a Chef can become CEO of an airline. Not only that, Koustab became an authority in starting full-service airlines from scratch in the Build-Operate-Transfer model. As a hotel management graduate, Koustav started as a chef and grew rapidly into leadership positions in the hospitality industry. By a twist of …

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Jon Russ 32:39

2+ y ago32:39

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Send us a Text Message. S3E28 This week Steve is joined in a Derbyshire churchyard by Jon Russ who is an expert on bat echolocation calls. They discuss how Jon got into studying bat calls, his latest book on the subject and his passion for Nathusius’ pipistrelle bats. Jon's latest book "Bat Calls of Britain and Europe" is available from Pelagic Pub…

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E32 - A Senior Marketing & Digital Innovation Professional to Mental Health Start-up With Vijay Solanki, Co-founder & CEO at ParentalEQ, TEDx Speaker 47:08

2+ y ago47:08

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Are you keen to build your career around marketing? Does psychology excite you? Are you a parent dealing with a mental health issue? This episode might be the answer to all your questions. From medical school dropout to psychology graduate, From practicing marketing and digital innovation to building his own startup on parent-child psychology, Thro…

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E31 - From HR Recruiting to Building His Own Sports Analytics Business With Nakul Pednekar, Founder, Wicky 58:27

2+ y ago58:27

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Are you considering starting your own company?? Are you ready to have a paradigm shift in the way you perceive things? This episode has the answers to your questions. From HR graduate jobs to Analytics and Data Science Recruiter, From slacking off on science tests in school to owning an analytical firm, His journey demonstrates his passion for lear…

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Bats with Altitude - Rich Flight 39:06

2+ y ago39:06

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Send us a Text Message. S3E27 This week Steve is in the Lake District National Park with Ecologist and Chair of south Cumbria Bat Group Rich Flight. Rich published the findings of a study called "Bats with Altitude" in the journal British Island Bats in 2021 and he sits down with Steve to tell us about what inspired the project, what bats were foun…

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E30 - From a Doer to a Thought Leader With Kshira Saagar, Chief Data Officer, Latitude Financial Services 37:29

2+ y ago37:29

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Are you feeling stuck in your job and unable to find a way to grow. Then this episode has got the answer you might be looking for. From being a doer to becoming a thought leader, From a data analyst to becoming CDO at a leading financial services organisation, Kshira Saagar demonstrates his passion to learn, his drive to apply, and his determinatio…

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E29 - Dare to Build Unconventional Career With Ashi Singhal, Linkedin Personal Branding Expert 59:02

2+ y ago59:02

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Are you interested in building a brand on LinkedIn? Whether you are a new startup or a full-fledged business, a student or professional in any field, this podcast will help you build an impressive online presence on LinkedIn. Graduating in Computer Science to becoming a Personal Branding Strategist, From self-doubt to self-discovery, Her journey il…

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Children's books with Emma Reynolds 23:20

2+ y ago23:20

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Send us a Text Message. S3E26 This week Steve is at Chorlton Water Park Nature Reserve in Manchester with author and illustrator Emma Reynolds. Emma's debut author-illustrator book "Amara and the Bats" was published here in the UK in July 2021 and she sits down with Steve to tell us how the book has been received, what she thinks the future of chil…

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E28 - First Female Senior Executive In The Family Business to Becoming an Executive Coach With Vinita Surana, Entrepreneur, Creative Director, & Performance Coach 1:16:35

2+ y ago1:16:35

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Are you feeling stuck in your career? Are you planning to become an entrepreneur? Then this episode might be the answer to your questions. From living in a conservative and protective family to being the first working woman in her family, From not choosing the traditional path to owning her business, Her journey showcases her passion to accept chal…

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E27 - From Chartered Accountant to Cyber Security with Anu Kukar, Associate Partner, IBM & Keynote Speaker 48:46

2+ y ago48:46

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Do you want to switch career? Do you want to enter into management roles? Then this episode is the answer to your questions. From being a doer to entering into management roles, From being an Executive Manager to becoming an Associate Partner at IBM, Her journey showcases her passion to learn, her purpose to implement, and her determination to achi…

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Barbastelles at Paston Great Barn 28:52

2+ y ago28:52

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Send us a Text Message. S3E25 This week Steve is on the Norfolk coastline in the East of England visiting Jane Harris from the Norfolk barbastelle study group. Paston Great Barn dates back to 1581. It’s a huge thatched barn made of flint, brick and stone measuring 50 meters in length and about 10 meters wide. Despite it’s size, driving south along …

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E26 - Discovering The Purpose of Life with Chinmay Ananda, Financial Educator, Business Storyteller & Author 1:13:45

2+ y ago1:13:45

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If you are struggling in finding the purpose of your life, then this episode might be the right place to tune in. From being a door to door salesman to becoming the operational manager of the company, From failing in 6 startup ideas to owing his full-fledged finance academy, His journey showcases his hunger to learn, his passion to explore, and his…

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E25 - Building Authority and Personal Brand with Aruna Pattam, Head of AI and Data Science, HCL 59:52

2+ y ago59:52

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If you are battling with self-doubt, This episode might help you to get out of that dilemma. From moving to Australia to spending almost 24 years there, From getting pregnant in the middle of the training period to becoming Head of AI and Data Science at HCL, Her journey showcases her passion for learning and her Determination to become better. Aru…

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Gareth Jones - A lifetime of research 42:57

2+ y ago42:57

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Send us a Text Message. S3E24 BatChat is back for a third series! Steve is on the roof of the biological sciences building with Professor Gareth Jones where he talks to Steve about just some of the research he has undertaken in his lifetime with bats. They discuss the work famously done to separate the two pipistrelle species back in the 90's, what…

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