The Community Show – repeat

Our Earth Week 10^th – 16^th November

During Our Earth Week, community radio stations all over the UK come together to talk the climate crisis and to celebrate life on earth.  Timed to coincide with the COP talks, it’s an opportunity to have conversations about how the climate crisis is affecting our communities and what we can do to try and stop it.

“Michael Branfield’s Great Ride” Michael had always had a plan to ride around the entire coast of the UK on his motorbike and it wasn’t until this August and September that he started his journey.  Today, he talks about his route, his impressions of   parts of the country he had never visited and also the weather!

“Stargazing above Somerset”  Harold Mead talks about the  skies above us in November

“River Being” – The final episode delves into our human  relationship to waters and river. If rivers are indeed alive, can  they be seen as persons, or are they sacred beings? How might we belong to a river? Fiona Macdonald ponders on the life of a river and how we need to treat water as sacred and not just a commodity

A convent of Mexican nuns is helping to save the one of the world’s most endangered and most remarkable amphibians: the axolotl, a truly bizarre creature of serious scientific interest worldwide and an animal of deep-rooted  cultural significance in Mexico. The Sisters of Immaculate Health rarely venture out of their monastery in the central Mexican town of Patzcuaro. Yet they have become the most adept and successful breeders of their local species of this aquatic salamander working with biologists including some from Chester Zoo. As a BBC Radio producer for much of his working life, and now a local resident, Andrew Luck-Baker talks about probably the most amazing and unusual conservation project he had ever made for the BBC.