4.9 • 34 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | Every year, the Wainwright Prize celebrates the best in nature writing. |
0:11.0 | In this Green Alliance episode, we are delighted to bring you an interview with two of the inspiring authors long-listed in this year's Wainwright Prize. |
0:19.0 | Ginny Reddy and Dara McNulty. Ginny Reddy, award-winning author and journalist, |
0:23.6 | shares her experience of writing Wonderland, |
0:25.6 | an account of her journey to connect with the magic of Britain's landscape. |
0:29.6 | I sometimes feel that I'm being reduced to the colour of my skin |
0:33.6 | and that I'm not being seen as a person with a natural interest or |
0:38.2 | enthusiasm for an experience of the outdoors in the way that is assumed if you're white |
0:43.4 | and doing something outdoorsy. And when I said, for the countryside, I'm always quietly asking |
0:48.0 | myself, how will I be received? Darra McNulty, a young star of the conservation movement, |
0:54.0 | talks about his book, Diary of a Young Naturalist, which walks us through Dara McNulty, a young star of the conservation movement, talks about his book, Diary of a Young Naturalist, |
0:56.7 | which walks us through Dara's vivid betrayal of the natural world. |
1:00.1 | All of these things build into a rage, |
1:04.4 | I've just decided I just need to write about it, |
1:06.9 | that I can express the things that cannot be spoken. |
1:11.3 | Tune in as both authors discuss their experiences of connecting with wildlife, |
1:15.5 | a feeling accepted in the British countryside, and their joy for nature writing. |
1:21.0 | Hello everyone, I am Belinda Gordon, the strategy director at Green Alliance. |
1:26.3 | I think I have one of the best jobs in the world, |
1:29.9 | but today I'm getting to do one of the most exciting things I think I've done in my role at |
1:35.9 | Green Alliance, and that is interview two of the authors on the long list for the Wainwright Prize |
1:42.0 | for Nature writing. And that is Ginny Reddy, who has written a |
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