A Field Guide to the Brecks

Walking and talking through the Norfolk and Suffolk Brecks to find out what makes it one of the most unusual landscapes in the UK from the people who live and work with the land.

A Field Guide to the Brecks is a science podcast hosted by Brecks Landscape Partnership, with 14 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Brecks Landscape Partnership hosts A Field Guide to the Brecks, a science show with 14 episodes published.

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  Episode #13

  Episode 13 - A Tour Around the Brecks with the Landscape Partnership

  Feb 10, 20261h 2mS1

  <p>This week, in the final episode of the series, Timo talks to Landscape Partnership founder, and Suffolk County Council’s Natural Environment Manager, Nick Dickson, and current Project Manager of the Landscape Partnership, Nicole Wade.</p><p>In this episode, they explore three different places in the Brecks:</p>the Great Eastern Pingo Trail across Thompson Common, a Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserve distinctive for hundreds of ice age pingo pondsWarren Lodge, outside of Thetford, where rabbits were historically farmed – even supplying fur to Catherine of Aragonthe Anglo-Saxon village in the Country Park at West Stow.<p>Timo, Nick and Nico...

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  Episode #12

  Episode 12 - Archaeological Play and Experimentation

  Feb 3, 202634 minS1

  <p>This week, Timo talks to Lance and Alfred from West Stow Country Park and Anglo-Saxon Village. Their exploration of the park starts with Æppel and Æcern, two wild-boar-mix pigs rootling beneath the trees, then wanders through the Anglo-Saxon village to the river where the team have created a log-boat or dug-out canoe and used cleared materials as resources for living history projects. </p><p>On their way, they discuss:</p>what can two pigs today teach us about ancient historythe evident 10,000 years of human history on the site and how the river Lark is keyhow the team’s work with...

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  Episode #11

  Episode 11 - Art for Community Resilience

  Jan 27, 202649 minS1

  <p>This week, Timo talks to Maddie Exton, Artist and Creative Producer at MarketPlace Arts, an Arts Council funded Creative People and Places (CPP) charity. They discuss:</p>Maddie’s working-class, rural Suffolk background and how it has influenced her artistic practice and work in social engagementexploring heritage and the environment through art and the interplay between research, nature, storytelling and creativityshould we explain our art or leave the audience to attribute their own meaning?what rural creativity looks like compared to creativity in urban settingsthe lack of working-class backgrounds in the arts and how to identify and overcome the ba...

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  Episode #10

  Episode 10 - Farming in Partnership for Biodiversity

  Jan 20, 202642 minS1

  <p>This week, Timo talks to Richard Evans, co-founder of the Breckland Farmers Wildlife Network (BFWN). They discuss:</p>the ingredients that formed the BFWN, from Richard’s background and network, to the Breckland Biodiversity Audit in 2010, evidencing nearly 13,000 species, around 2,000 of which are priority species, in the Breckshow working collaboratively for ecology improvements has brought together otherwise isolated and competitive farms and businessesthe importance of facts and science when talking to farmers and how the standard advice for improving ecology is often a bad fit for the Brecksthe nitty-gritty of what farmers in the BFWN are doing on their la...

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  Episode #9

  Episode 9 – Collaborative Working for River Health

  Jan 13, 202638 minS1

  <p>This week, Timo talks to Becky Carter, Catchment Engagement Manager and Martin Bowes, Strategy Manager for Anglian Water. They discuss:</p>how the word “heritage” applies naturally to water in the Brecks because it is the reason humans have lived in the area for so longhow being part of the Landscape Partnership was fundamental to Anglian Water creating the concept for their current way of collaborative workingthe power of a network when balancing corporate business, innovation, and meeting regulation, with environmental improvements and community engagement the importance of a hub-based structure for delivering large and complex projects how Anglian Wate...

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