YouTube video: Part of my Radio 4 interview on Montserrat
YouTube video: Falling in love with the Grand Canyon
Montserrat after the volcano: true resilience
Hunting for Montserrat’s national bird: the oriole
YouTube video: Part of my Radio 4 interview on Montserrat
Just a few weeks after my return trip to Montserrat, I got a call from Harry Parker, the producer of Radio 4s travel programme ‘Excess Baggage‘. He seemed interested in the idea of having me on the programme. He spent 45 minutes grilling me to get a feel for me and if I had anything interesting to say. The next day (Thursday) I got a call: “You’re on this Saturday”.
YouTube video: Falling in love with the Grand Canyon
I have a confession to make. I didn’t want to work as a ranger at the Grand Canyon National Park. I put it right at the bottom of my choices on the application form. Too busy, too commercial, too well known…it seemed a world away from the remote places I like. But boy, was I wrong.
Montserrat after the volcano: true resilience
I’ve just had the very great pleasure of being a guest on Rose Willock’s Saturday morning cultural show on ZJB Radio Montserrat. Rose was the calming, cheerful voice that helped inform and support the community through difficult times. After the show she explained how Montserratians had shown true resilience in the face of the volcano.
Hunting for Montserrat’s national bird: the oriole
I was up at 5.30 ready to be guided up Katy Hill by a Montserratian legend, James ‘Scriber’ Daley. A forester and nature guide, he’s the person every research project employs when they come to Montserrat and want to work in the forest. He is an expert on Montserrat’s wildlife.