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Ever wondered what happens when you fill a cello with bees? Or how robins have successfully colonised the outer-reaches of our universe? Or why the world is destined to be populated purely by female turtles? This podcast celebrates nature and the stories of those who care deeply for it. Join artist, actor and Woodland Trust & Wildlife Trusts ambassador David Oakes, for a series of informal, relaxed conversations with artists, scientists, creatives and environmentalists as they celebrate the ...
Video of police beating Tyre Nichols is released, Israeli police say 13-year-old Palestinian boy shot Israeli father and son and Former President Trump hits the campaign trail.By NBC News
Memphis braces as video showing police beating of Tyre Nichols is released; Body camera footage of Paul Pelosi attack released; At least seven people shot dead near Jerusalem synagogue; and more on tonight’s broadcast.By NBC News
Five ex-officers charged with murder in Tyre Nichols’ death; Police officers testify in Alex Murdaugh murder trial; Southwest CEO: Airline ‘almost cannot apologize enough’ for holiday travel chaos; and more on tonight’s broadcast.By NBC News
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NBC News Special Report: Officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death
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Lester Holt anchors an NBC News Special Report as officials announce that five former Memphis police officers have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols.By NBC News
Alex Murdaugh’s alibi contradicts evidence, state contends; Newport News teacher’s lawyer alleges school missed warnings in 6-year-old shooting; Biden announces U.S. will send 31 tanks to Ukraine; and more on tonight’s broadcast.By NBC News
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NBC News Special Report: Biden announces tanks for Ukraine
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Lester Holt anchors an NBC News Special report as President Biden announces that the United States will supply Ukraine with 31 Abrams tanks.By NBC News
Classified documents found in Pence’s Indiana home; Suspect arrested in Half Moon Bay shooting that left 7 dead; Monterey Park community shattered after mass shooting; and more on tonight’s broadcast.By NBC News
New details about suspected Monterey Park shooter revealed; FBI finds additional classified documents at Biden’s Delaware home; Alex Murdaugh murder trial underway; and more on tonight’s broadcast.By NBC News
SWAT teams close in on van sought in connection with Monterey Park mass shooting, Police nationwide ramp up security after mass shooting and Fourth discovery of classified items revealed at President Biden’s home.By NBC News
Former Walmart employee opens fire in Indiana store, injuring one; Small plane crash outside of New York City kills two; Two paramedics charged with first-degree murder in hospital transport; and more on tonight’s broadcast.By NBC News
Alec Baldwin to be charged with involuntary manslaughter in ‘Rust’ shooting; 12 million people under winter alerts amid cross-country storm; Family of 6-year-old shooter speaks out; and more on tonight’s broadcast.By NBC News
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NBC News Special Report: Alec Baldwin to be charged in ‘Rust’ film set shooting
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Lester Holt anchors an NBC News Special Report after prosecutors announced that actor Alec Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the movie “Rust.”By NBC News
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Dr Trevor Dines (Part Two): Mapping “The Trevor Dines Effect” with North Wales’ Meadow Maker
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In this, the second part of David Oakes’ interview with botanist Dr Trevor Dines, Trevor goes into detail about the sheer power of community science when documenting our nation’s flowers. Our understanding of British Flora - and indeed that of the BSBI (Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland) - would be nowhere without keen amateur volunteers. Sp…
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Dr Trevor Dines (Part One): Nobody ties themselves to buttercups (unless you’re born a botanist!)
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Despite being raised in the fields of England and having slept upon the Rainforest Canopies of Cameroon, Dr Trevor Dines’ heart is intertwined with the flora of Wales. Recorded in his own personal Wildflower Meadow in North Wales’ Conwy Valley, this interview charts Trevor’s journey from the youngest member of the Wessex Orchid Society (when still …
Outside of singing, Jewel is on a mission “helping people want to live.” She tells NBC News’ Kate Snow about the Not Alone Challenge, a mental health campaign that reminds people they are not alone during the holidays.By NBC News
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NBC News Special: Epidemic of Hate – Antisemitism in America
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Jacob Soboroff hosts an NBC News NOW special exploring the resurgence of hate against Jews in America and what’s being done to combat extremism.By NBC News
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Sarah Gillespie: Of Moths and Mezzotints - an Artist’s Metamorphosis
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Working from her Devonshire studio and the surrounding natural habitats, artist and printmaker Sarah Gillespie, in looking carefully at our wild world, can’t help but sense the sentience of nature looking right back at her. Raised by two artist parents, and having been blessed with at least one truly inspirational teacher, it’s perhaps not surprisi…
The objective of Bill Nye’s popular children’s show was to “change the world.” He tells NBC News’ Kate Snow how life after his science show includes public speaking engagements and leading the Planetary Society.By NBC News
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Nightly News Films: The Reckoning – An American Genocide
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NBC News’ Cynthia McFadden reports on the dark history of Native American boarding schools in the U.S. An effort is ongoing to use ground-penetrating radar to look for the unmarked graves of children who may be buried at Red Cloud Indian School in South Dakota.By NBC News
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Dan "Swampy" Hooper: The power of protest and learning to live with it (and pooing in tunnels with friends)
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In 1996, having spent 7 days living underground, Dan Hooper was forcibly evicted from a protest tunnel and thrust into the spotlight of the waiting media. From that day forward, Dan Hooper was known by most of the British population simply as “Swampy”. 26 years on from that high-profile eviction, Dan remains a committed environmental activist. In t…
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Nightly News Films: Aging out of foster care
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NBC News’ Antonia Hylton meets Christina Abraham in the months surrounding her 21st birthday as she ages out of the foster care system and needs to find her own place to live in New York City.By NBC News
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Leigh Morris: Sexy carrots & feral wallabies - the adventures and curiosities hidden behind Manannan’s cloak
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Midway through the Isle of Man’s Manx TT motor-racing festival lies a day (terrifyingly aptly) branded as “Mad Sunday”. David Oakes chose this bacchanalian festival, one filled with inebriated petrol-heads and super-charged exhaust eruptions, to talk with the Manx Wildlife Trust’s CEO, Leigh Morris. Recorded in perhaps the only two quiet enclaves t…
Jacob Soboroff details his months-long investigation into labor trafficking in the marijuana black market. Law enforcement tells us that the practice is growing, despite two-thirds of U.S. states legalizing marijuana.By NBC News
Walker Hayes discusses how he and his daughter’s TikTok dance to “Fancy Like” on their porch went viral. He tells NBC News’ Kate Snow how he battled challenges in his life as he built his career.By NBC News
Adorable, rainbow-beaked Atlantic puffins were once so prized that they were nearly hunted to extinction. One man is responsible for their resurgence in population: biologist Steve Kress. NBC News’ Kerry Sanders travels to Eastern Egg Rock Island in the Gulf of Maine to learn more.By NBC News
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Dr Amy-Jane Beer: The 3 R’s of Nature Writing - Reading, Roaming and the Radial symmetry of Sea Urchin larvae
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Upon Salisbury Plain - nestled amongst exploding ordnance and dim-witted Tawny Owl fledgelings - the child that would become Dr Amy-Jane Beer found both a love for nature and a love for adventure. Training originally as a biologist, Amy grew into one of Britain’s best loved nature writers. Whether articles in British Wildlife, diary entires for the…
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Nightly News Films: Colorado River and Western Megadrought
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The Colorado River is a 1,400-mile, life-sustaining artery for the American West – supplying water for seven states while generating hydroelectric power for millions. But experts tell NBC News’ Steve Patterson that the river’s power is shrinking. Steve gets exclusive access inside the Glen Canyon Dam as the crisis leads to historic water rationing,…
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Dr Gavin Broad: Broadening horizons with Darwin's wasps and other tales of cannibalism, incest and zombies
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Dr Gavin Broad’s love of nature was initially inspired by the birdlife of the Wirral. However, the summer lull in avian activity lead the 15-year-old Broad towards an interest in moths, and from there it was only a zombie caterpillar away from the creatures that were to inspire his professional identity and take him as far afield as Chile; Parasito…
Cody Rigsby discusses how he went from growing up in North Carolina to becoming a popular Peloton instructor in New York City. He tells NBC News’ Kate Snow how he uses his platform to help others discover themselves through movement.By NBC News
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Lost on Lundy: The hidden treasures of a wildlife landmark; aka, “David adventures to Puffin Island!”
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Since the late 1960s, Lundy Island - just off the north coast of Devon and measuring only half a mile wide at its widest point - has been owned and operated by two British charities; the National Trust and the Landmark Trust. Prior to this, Lundy was owned by wealthy megalomaniacs, pirates, gamblers, revolutionaries, neolithic fisher-people, and a …
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Bonus Beatrice: Bearded Seals & Ice Flowers - further stories from the ice sheets
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Beatrice von Preussen: All the little things that inspired an artist to travel from pole to pole
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In her Brighton studio, the artist, explorer, science communicator and self-professed 'child', Beatrice von Preussen, explores her obsession with "little things". Whether tadpole, snail shell, wax-worm or fossilised prehistoric crustacean, Bea explains how it is the small things that have made her dream big. Here she discusses her journey to the ar…
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George Monbiot: Feeding our future with heaven-sent bacteria and home-brewed scrumpy!
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George Monbiot is a prolific writer and journalist, known particularly for his environmental and political activism. But, this episode - not simply about his being beaten or arrested for his political views, or indeed about the time he was stung into a coma by hornets or when he actually died (according to a Brazilian newspaper) - is about fixing o…
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American Dreaming with José Díaz-Balart: Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
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Famed Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa talks to José Díaz-Balart about his upbringing in Baja California, Mexico. Moving from migrant farmworker to Harvard Medical School, he founded the non-profit Mission: BRAIN to provide care to patients in underserved areas of the world.By NBC News
Shaun White discusses how he went from Southern California, to the top of the snowboarding world. Shaun tells Kate Snow about his new snowboard brand, Whitespace, and his hopes to still be involved in the sport.By Kate Snow, Shaun White
Lester Holt sits down with former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr in an exclusive primetime TV interview, Barr’s first since resigning as attorney general under the Trump administration.By NBC News
The Vampire Diaries star Ian Somerhalder tells Kate Snow about how a “terrible business situation” nearly crushed him, until wife Nikki Reed stepped in to negotiate a path out. Ian has now launched a bourbon called “Brother’s Bond” with on-screen brother Paul Wesley.By NBC News
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Norwegian Spruce: Our Viking Christmas Tree; aka ‘The Return of the Native’
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BONUS EPISODE: For Christmas, David Oakes explores the cultural importance of the non-native Christmas Tree, the Norwegian Spruce (Picea abies). Although native to our shores before the most recent Ice Age, it took Vikings from Scandanavia, Princes from Saxe-Coburg, Violinists from Italy and Horses from Aintree to truly root the Norwegian Spruce in…