Stories

22nd February 2022

Explore Your Boundaries - New documentary by Mark Beaumont & Markus Stitz explores gravel routes along four Scottish council boundaries

Explore Your Boundaries - New documentary by Mark Beaumont & Markus Stitz explores gravel routes along four Scottish council boundaries.

8th August 2021

Adventures with micro-plants: a walking interview with botanist Brad Scott

Around the country, botanists are exploring their local landscapes while gathering species data to inform conservation efforts and land use. One such botanist is Brad Scott. His daughter, Anna Scott, joined him for a walking meditation on the botanical perspective.

8th July 2021

Life behind the scenes of a BBC wildlife documentary

Mary Melville has helped produce some iconic wildlife documentaries in recent years, including Natural World and Dynasties. In other words, she does what many would consider a dream job. We spoke with her to learn more about life behind the scenes.

8th July 2021

A chat with the UK's most high-profile guerrilla gardener

Richard Reynolds is arguably the UK's highest profile guerrilla gardener, and author of On Guerrilla Gardening. We spoke with him about the state and adventure of guerrilla gardening today.

Authors

Adventure Uncovered

Adventure Uncovered influences social and environmental change through responsible adventure.

Sheila Kanani

Dr. Sheila Kanani is a British astronomer and the Education, Outreach and Diversity Officer at the Royal Astronomical Society. She has presented programmes for the BBC, and is dedicated to improving the representation of girls and women in physics and identifying new ways to take astronomy and physics to underrepresented communities. Her children's book, How To Be An Astronaut and Other Space Jobs, written with illustrator and graphic designer Sol Linero, was published in 2019 by Nosy Crow and was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award.

Dr. Megan Argo

Dr. Megan Argo is a Lecturer in Astronomy at the University of Central Lancashire and a Vice President of the Royal Astronomical Society. After studying at the University of Manchester, she worked in Western Australia and the Netherlands, before returning to the UK in 2013. She has been lucky enough to observe with some of the best radio telescopes around the world, in Europe, India, the USA and Australia. Her passion for sharing the wonders of the universe with children of all ages has taken her from northern Scotland to outback Western Australia, via rural India, the mountains of Columbia, and cosmopolitan South Africa.

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