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 entirely new career? Well, it worked for Tom Leonard, who, in a matter if months went from knowing nothing about plants to professional garden design and appearing at Chelsea Flower Show as his alter ego, Daisy Desire, aka The Drag Queen Gardener.
Join Tom now for a sunny stroll round Birmingham Botanical Gardens, where they learnt their trade, saw how beneficial gardening could be for mental health… and worked out the one single thing without which, a garden isn’t really a garden at all.
A Life More Wild is an 18Sixty production, brought to you by Canopy & Stars. Production and sound recording by Clarissa Maycock. Our theme music is by Billie Marten.
Sarah Wilson on her favourite hike and nature as a coping mechanism
Hamza Yassin on watching the same eagles for eight years and how Strictly changed his life
Mike Duxbury on life as a blind farmer, pig coughs and goose cuddles
Dr Becky Smethurst on stargazing, Saturn and what nature and the night sky have in common
Author Freya Bromley on tidal pools, grief and screaming underwater
Katherine May on disappearing shipwrecks, the rhythm of walking and why we should all love winter
Jack Harries on meeting Obama, seeing climate change first-hand and his second favourite place in Hackney
Liv Little on creativity, loss and grounding herself by the sea
Banjo Beale on drunk botanists, interior design and carrying an antique apothecary cabinet up a coast path
Nick Hayes on the Right to Roam, silt witches and getting arrested
Charlotte Church on woodlands, waterfalls and listening to nature
Series three... coming soon
Bonus episode: George Clarke on utopian towns and secret projects
Bonus episode: 24 hours in 24 minutes, a sensory nature meditation experience
Resetting, reinventing and growing - Sophie Morgan and Alice Vincent
214 peaks and an 830km swim - Russ Moorhouse and Lisa Shaw
Richie Norton and Gail Muller - Movement, calm and massive hikes
Poppy Okotcha and Tom Hunt - Seeds, hens and seasonality
Fearne Cotton & Kris Hallenga - Tears, ideas and Neighbours
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