Our Earth Week Special - The one with Christina Wheeler talking to Roma Widger about the Green Pledge Project.

OUR EARTH WEEK 2024 - featuring highlights from BCfm's contribution to this national event on community radio, which broadcast in November. 

This episode features the Roma Widger Show featuring Christina Wheeler talking about the Green Pledge Project.

Christina is the Project Manager of the Green Pledge Project at Gloucestershire Archives. The project delves into the rich seam of environmentally significant records held at the archives and shares them through events, exhibitions and podcasts. Comparing historic records around climate change and biodiversity loss with contemporary records is illuminating and helps us to understand what the local area was like in a time before living memory.

Christina talks to Roma about one of their series of podcasts about two dawn choruses, recorded in the same place and month, but seventy years apart. In 1950s Wotton, Harry Grimes took his Grundig reel to reel recorder to the edge of the woods and recorded the cacophony of the early morning birdsong. In the background you can hear the steam train and the 5am church bells. Christina and Harry’s son Hugo took this 1950s and 2024 recordings to bird expert Ed Drewitt, to discuss the changes that Ed can hear.

To find out more about the project and listen to the podcasts visit : The Green Pledge Project | Gloucestershire Archives

This project made possible thanks to National Lottery Heritage Funding. 

Music: Spice Garden by Drill Run.  Licenced from Audiio.