In this episode, I’m talking to Juliana Adelman, who’s assistant professor of history at Dublin City University. Juliana’s recent book, Civilised by Beasts: Animals and Urban Change in Nineteenth-Century Dublin,… Read More
After a three-month hiatus, the Hedgehog and the Fox is back with a new spring season. To get it under way, in this latest podcast we explore the role of… Read More
This week, Georgian London as you’ve never experienced it before: populated with animals, pullulating with animals – pigs snuffling in the dirt recycling the city’s waste; herds of sheep and… Read More
This week, the Hedgehog and the Fox investigate the origins of human musicality by looking for musical ability and perception in other animals, including rhesus macaques, zebra finches, a cockatoo… Read More
This week The Hedgehog & the Fox go looking for those much-despised denizens of our urban landscape, gulls, in the company of writer, birdwatcher and radio producer Tim Dee. Gulls… Read More
This is a lightly edited transcript of my recent interview with Tessa Laird, which you can find here: Tessa Laird, who teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts, University… Read More
In this the first programme in the new autumn season, the Hedgehog and the Fox go in search of bats, in the company of Tessa Laird. Tessa, who teaches at… Read More
This programme from the archive features a conversation I had back in 2010 with Robert Irwin about the extraordinary world of the camel. Robert is a true polymath: Arabist, historian,… Read More
I was lucky enough to have the chance to talk to James Serpell earlier this year about the new edition of his book, The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behavior… Read More
‘What do we mean when we say an animal performs?’ My guests on this programme are Karen Raber, professor of English at the University of Mississippi, and Monica Mattfeld, assistant… Read More
