A Life More Wild
Episodes
Quick Strolls: Challenging Nature
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Quick Strolls, shorter walks with the guests from A Life More Wild. In episode ten, we talk to three guests who have taken on incredible c...
Quick Strolls: Natural Design
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Quick Strolls, shorter walks with the guests from A Life More Wild. In episode nine, we examine how design and architecture have been insp...
Luke Adam Hawker on etching under a poncho in the rain
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Adam Hawker, once a designer and architect, is now a full-time artist, whose work is a deeply emotive exploration of nature, our relationship to ...
Quick Strolls: Coping with Loss
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Quick Strolls, shorter walks with the guests from A Life More Wild. In episode eight, we talk to guests who’ve leant on nature to help t...
Mark Diacono on grounding, growing and momentous soup
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Diacono has always grown, cooked and written about food. But despite a life lived in and around nature, he felt disconnected. A simple weekly dia...
Quick Strolls: A Space for Everyone
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Quick Strolls, shorter walks with the guests from A Life More Wild. In episode seven, we look back on the responsibility that many of our ...
Lia Leendertz on the joy of watching the seasons change
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lia Leendertz has revived the tradition of the almanac, charting nature for the coming year. As she walks through Ashton Court, in Bristol, she thinks...
Quick Strolls: Creativity in Nature
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Quick Strolls, shorter walks with the guests from A Life More Wild. In episode six, we meet a musician and two writers who use nature to g...
Adrienne Adhami on navigating the perilous world of wellbeing
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adrienne Adhami was a trained dancer, with a keen understanding of physical fitness. But when a friend suffered a sudden illness, she began to rethink...
Quick Strolls: Small Adventures
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Quick Strolls, shorter walks with the guests from A Life More Wild. In episode five, we meet fearless adventurers and unstoppable hikers, ...
TJ Power on rebalancing your brain and going with your gut
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a young man, TJ Power developed an addiction to his phone that many of us would find familiar. Using his background in neuroscience, he managed to ...
Quick Strolls: Slowing Down
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Quick Strolls, shorter walks with the guests from A Life More Wild. In episode four, we stop and take a breath, as so many of our guests h...
Sophie Pavelle on symbiosis, our place in nature and confused crabs
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Pavelle spends her life travelling the British Isles, highlighting the beauty and brilliance of its wild spaces on a mission to inspire people ...
Quick Strolls: Growing Closer to Nature
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Quick Strolls, shorter walks with the guests from A Life More Wild. In episode three, we talk to a few people whose passion for growin...
Xanthe Ross on cooking, growing and connecting through food
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Xanthe Ross went to Wales to get out of London for a while. She pottered around in her parents’ walled garden, trying her hand at growing some herbs...
Quick Strolls: Mental Health
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Quick Strolls, shorter walks with guests from A Life More Wild. In this episode, we look at how nature has helped some of our guests throug...
Claudia Robalino on art, architecture and the Amazon
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artist and architect Claudia Robalino grew up in Ecuador, with volcanoes, the ocean and the Amazon giving her a powerful connection to nature. It was ...
Quick Strolls: Access to Nature
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One thing that comes up time and again on A Life More Wild is access to nature. Something that many of us take for granted was, to a lot of our guests...
Dwayne Fields on becoming Chief Scout and the misunderstanding that changed his life
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dwayne Fields moved to London from Jamaica when he was just a child. The contrast between the two places was almost too much for him to handle until a...
Series five…coming 20th March
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time to step back outside. A Life More Wild returns for season 5, when we’ll be taking a walk with more fascinating people and chatting about...
Ollie Olanipekun and Nadeem Perera on building a global movement out of a love of birds
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ollie Olanipekun first met Nadeem Parera on Instagram, where they bonded over a love of birds. Realising how rare it was to see people of colour engag...
James Wong on the full flat, ruined movies and inspiring insight that a love of plants has brought him
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When James Wong first visited Kew Gardens, he asked his mum if this was what heaven looked like. The ethnobotanist, born and raised in Singapore, can ...
Venetia La Manna on fighting the fashion industry and the power of community
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Venetia La Manna loves clothes, but knows more than most about the evils of fashion. For years, she’s been campaigning to change one of the most unr...
Lise Wortley on walking in the footsteps and clothing of historic female adventurers
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When she was 16, Lise Wortley read a book by the explorer Alexandra David-Neel, who had undertaken a 14-year journey through Asia. The idea of it stay...
Gaz Oakley on growing food and rediscovering his love of the land
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gaz Oakley was an intensely energetic, sporty person, who pursued fitness by loading up on carbs and protein, and hitting the gym. He was also a chef,...
Hiker Athena Mellor on introducing the fourth generation of her family to the Lake District
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Athena Mellor never dreamed of writing a guidebook, but the knowledge of a lifetime hiking, a passion handed down by her father and grandfather was ju...
Conservationist Sacha Dench on tracking swans 7,000km across 11 countries
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When she dropped out of the sky in front of Russian hunters in the Arctic, Sasha Dench wasn't quite sure how she'd be received. She was on a mission t...
Julius Roberts on nature-first farming and looking his food in the eye
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Julius Roberts was exhausted and overworked, as chefs often are. He couldn’t help but compare himself to the happy, healthy-looking farmers who deli...
Writer and broadcaster Emma Gannon on the regenerative value of doing nothing
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emma Gannon had been writing books for ten years, almost solidly. She hosted podcasts, spoke at numerous events and maintained one of the most popular...
Activist Mikaela Loach on finding the power to fight global corporations
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mikaela Loach remembers the moment her grandmother told her that their local beach had disappeared. Years later, she would place that emotional conver...
Lira Valencia on barriers to inclusivity, common terns and “London dolphins”
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lira Valencia grew up in Croydon, surrounded by the kind of urban sprawl that keeps the natural world at a distance. However, thanks mostly to the sna...
Alastair Humphreys on building adventure into your life wherever you live
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alastair Humphreys spent four years cycling round the world. He’s rowed across the Atlantic, run a marathon in the Sahara and taken part in an exped...
Series four... starts 6 June
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time to get outdoors again… In season 4 of ALMW you’ll walk with more fascinating people as they take you to some of their favourite spots...
Bonus Episode - Chatabix meets Canopy & Stars
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While we were working on series 4 of A Life More Wild, which launches in June, Joe Wilkinson and David Earl shamelessly name-dropped us on their podca...
Sarah Wilson on her favourite hike and nature as a coping mechanism
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Wilson is always on the move. Her work as an author, presenter and speaker takes her all over the world. In the course of her wandering, she’s...
Hamza Yassin on watching the same eagles for eight years and how Strictly changed his life
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Being a wildlife cameraman wasn’t something Hamza Yassin wanted to do. It was THE ONLY thing he wanted to do. Inspired by the attenborough documenta...
Mike Duxbury on life as a blind farmer, pig coughs and goose cuddles
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Despite having a passion for animals and farming, Mike Duxbury received only one offer from all the agricultural colleges he applied to. The rest dism...
Dr Becky Smethurst on stargazing, Saturn and what nature and the night sky have in common
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You often hear people talk about how getting out into nature gives them a change of perspective. But what happens when your profession is nature on th...
Author Freya Bromley on tidal pools, grief and screaming underwater
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Freya Bromley first discovered tidal pools, she was dealing with the turmoil of grief. Those patches of calm water, surrounded by volatile seas, ...
Katherine May on disappearing shipwrecks, the rhythm of walking and why we should all love winter
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A few years ago, a walk on the south west coastal path opened Katharine May up to a whole new world. She began to think about reconnecting with nat...
Jack Harries on meeting Obama, seeing climate change first-hand and his second favourite place in Hackney
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On a trip to Greenland, Jack Harries saw a huge chunk of ice break off a glacier and crash into the sea. Already a keen film maker with an interest in...
The Drag Queen Gardener on allotments, break-ups and the benefits of gardening
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the best thing to do when you’re going through a bad breakup? How about get an allotment, develop a love of gardening and find yourself an ...
Liv Little on creativity, loss and grounding herself by the sea
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Liv Little often found herself asked to speak on behalf of all marginalised voices, as the only person of colour in the room… so she decided to buil...
Banjo Beale on drunk botanists, interior design and carrying an antique apothecary cabinet up a coast path
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us probably feel pretty proud of ourselves if we manage to put up a shelf that's reasonably straight. So imagine how great it would feel to re...
Nick Hayes on the Right to Roam, silt witches and getting arrested
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This time we join Nick Hayes. He’s one of the most prominent voices of the campaign for the Right to Roam in England and author of The Book of Tres...
Charlotte Church on woodlands, waterfalls and listening to nature
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're back for series 3 and for our first wander we're in a wooded Welsh valley with Charlotte Church. Famous since the age of 11, it's a wonder she d...
Series three... coming soon
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Life More Wild is back with a whole new group of fascinating people taking you out into nature. We'll be joining Charlotte Church at her new wellnes...
Bonus episode: George Clarke on utopian towns and secret projects
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our final episode of series 2 of A Life More wild sees us chatting to George Clarke about his humble beginnings creating treehouses as a kid, and the ...
Bonus episode: 24 hours in 24 minutes, a sensory nature meditation experience
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wake to birdsong, walk in the woods, forage as you go, then dip into a stream to cool off before you head back to sit round the crackling fire. Leave ...
Resetting, reinventing and growing - Sophie Morgan and Alice Vincent
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We took a trip around Southwark Park with TV presenter and award-winning disability advocate Sophie Morgan. We talked about growing up wild, how her...
214 peaks and an 830km swim - Russ Moorhouse and Lisa Shaw
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We go for a walk in the Lake District with Russ Moorhouse, who points out a fraction of the 214 Wainwright Fells he wild camped on in an epic year-lon...
Richie Norton and Gail Muller - Movement, calm and massive hikes
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We walk in the woods with Richie Norton and hear about the long road from losing his rugby career to finding his calm as a breathing and movement coac...
Poppy Okotcha and Tom Hunt - Seeds, hens and seasonality
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re down in Poppy Okotcha’s Devon garden, helping her (by staying out of the way) as she pots some seeds and talks about finding her passion for...
Fearne Cotton & Kris Hallenga - Tears, ideas and Neighbours
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re in Richmond Park with Fearne Cotton, to talk about how the open space and tranquillity of the waters have inspired, calmed and healed her. We ...
Crystal caves, rhythm and putting down new roots - Gemma Cairney & Tom Dixon
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For episode two, we take a windy walk with radio and TV presenter Gemma Cairney, and her partner Cameron (founder of specialist coffee subscription se...
Planting, subverting and empowering - Ellen Miles & Amira, the Wanderlust Woman
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're down in Devon to plant a sapling and hear about Ellen Miles' two campaigns - lobbying the UN to make nature a human right and encouraging planti...
Series two...coming soon!
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're back very soon for a second series. Just like in series one, we’ll be getting you into nature on walks with inspiring people who weave the out...
Stomping, reflecting & whittling - Dr. Alex & Brook House Woods
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We walk in Richmond Park with Youth Mental Health Ambassador Dr Alex George and hear about his plan for community Health Hubs, his personal tragedy an...
Conservation, cultivation & relocation - Megan McCubbin & Swallowtail Hill
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We visit Megan McCubbin in the New Forest, where the idea for the Self Isolating Bird Club was hatched, to talk conservation, bird calls and the amazi...
Marshes, music & wilderness - Billie Marten & Hinterlandes
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A walk in Hackney Marshes with singer songwriter Billie Marten, who told us about finding inspiration and calm in the natural world, followed by an in...
Wild swimming and restorative retreats - Sian Lewis & Kate Humble
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We head down to the river for some wild swimming with travel journalist and author Sian Lewis, who tells us the best ways to get out into nature, even...
Mental health, breezy walks & sea air - Ruth Allen & Wilderme
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We go for a drizzly, breezy walk around the Peak District woodland which psychotherapist Ruth Allen calls her office and discuss how people respond to...
Coastal foraging and lochside cuisine - Gill Meller & Monachlye Mhor
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A fascinating and delicious nature walk in the company of River Cottage’s Gill Meller, who grazes as we walk through the woods then cooks up sea kal...
Birdwatching, equality & beavers - Mya-Rose Craig (Birdgirl) & The Keep
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re heading into the great outdoors to look for ravens and talk equal access to nature with campaigner, activist and birdwatching fanatic Mya-Rose...
Trailer - A Life More Wild
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing A Life More Wild, a podcast that will transport you into the great outdoors and help you connect with nature. In each episode we’ll be ...