“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf”, Aldo Leopold.
Prejudices, storytelling, popular culture and medieval demonisation populate the landscape we have created for the wolf; one that often bears little resemblance to the harsh and diverse landscapes they actually call home.
However, it is as a non-human creature that can seem all too human in its habits, that we humans seem to struggle the most. In this podcast we ponder the history of our relationship with wolves, the detail of how they live and where, the motifs we have created and how they live alongside us, and increasingly so. What is our future alongside wolves? What is the wolf’s future alongside us?
MUSIC BY COLIN WILLIAMS
Some of the ideas and references we make in this podcast can be found here:
Yellowstone National Park
Theodore Roosevelt
Aldo Leopold
David Mech
Doug Smith
Jim Halfpenny
Dan Hartman
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Rudyard Kipling
Nunamiut Inupiat of Alaska
Blackfoot Confederacy
Pawnee
Zuni
Fenrir
Lupa romana
Little Red Riding Hood
Aesop’s Fables
Three Little Pigs
Big Bad Wolf
Of Wolves and Men - Barry Lopez
The Great American Wolf - Bruce Hampton
The Grey - Liam Neeson
Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
The Colour of Money
Sasquatch
An American Werewolf in London
Rietschen
Trophic cascade
E O Wilson
Ed Bangs
35. Tide ~ time & tidings
34. Extinction ~ loss, hope and redemption
33. Sense of scent ~ second nature, beyond words
32. Sam Lee. The Nightingale ~ totem, identity and hope
31. Black Shuck ~ and the hounds of the liminal lands
30. Ed Parnell. Ghostland ~ In Search of a Haunted Country
29. Ed O’Brien. Earth ~ the album and in nature
28. Gillian Burke ~ storytelling & the light and shade of being alive
26. Karen Parry. Wild Swimming ~ held by water
25. Eva Gunnare. Wild Food ~ tradition & knowledge
23. Interspecies ~ a language between us?
22. The River ~ all things merge into one
21. Roger Hardy, Rhett Griffiths. Sea Voices ~ Siren voices
20. Owl ~ mythology, motif and mastery
19. Wilderness ~ is it beyond our reach?
18. The Sea ~ a prelude
17. Dan Richards. Outpost ~ wilderness and the other
16. Pilgrimage ~ endurance, faith and the 'other'
15. Julian Hoffman. Irreplaceable ~ the fight to save wild places
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