Broadly Speaking

Broads National Park
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  • NATURAL SCIENCES

Funded by Defra, the Broads Authority is building a peatland community to confront one of the region’s most urgent climate challenges: reducing greenhouse gas emissions from 2,000 hectares of drained peat soils. Through the Broads Peat Partnership, action is underway across the Broads, and this podcast forms a key part of that engagement work. In each episode, Andrea Kelly—who has worked in the Broads for over 30 years—speaks with farmers, landowners, water managers and authors to capture diverse perspectives and explore real-world solutions.

Episodes

  1. Farming and Feeling Wetlands

    13 JAN

    Farming and Feeling Wetlands

    In this final episode of Broadly Speaking, the focus turns to how we relate to wetlands: emotionally, culturally, and practically. Through stories of species recovery, farming adaptation and landscape history, Andrea Kelly explores what it really means to live with water in a place shaped by centuries of human intervention. From swallowtail butterflies and bitterns, to farmers managing peat grazing marshes, to writers helping us see wetlands differently, this episode reflects on the hopes of those who's daily lives are embedded in this special landscape.   You can read more information about the Broads Peat Partnership by clicking here. Music is from mobygratis Produced with SOUNDYARD Funded by Defra and the Environment Agency Created by the Broads Authority in association with SoundYard

    22 min
  2. How we Manage Water

    13 JAN

    How we Manage Water

    In the Broads, water is everything — and increasingly, it’s unpredictable. This episode of Broadly Speaking focuses on how water is managed in a low-lying, climate-exposed landscape where flooding, drought, food production and nature all compete for the same resource. Andrea Kelly speaks with people working on drainage, catchment-scale planning and farming to explore whether our water systems are fit for demand. You can read more information about the Broads Peat Partnership by clicking ⁠here⁠. Music is from ⁠mobygratis⁠ Produced with ⁠SOUNDYARD⁠

    23 min
  3. The Science of Peat

    13 JAN

    The Science of Peat

    The ground beneath the broads holds one of our greatest climate opportunities — and one of our biggest risks. In this episode of Broadly Speaking, Andrea Kelly explores lowland peat: what it is, why it matters, and how centuries of drainage have turned it from a carbon store into a carbon source. With insight from ecology, land management and policy, the conversation looks at why peatlands are central to the UK’s Net Zero ambitions — and why rewetting them is both urgent and complex. You can read more information about the Broads Peat Partnership by clicking ⁠here⁠. Music is from ⁠mobygratis⁠ Produced with ⁠SOUNDYARD⁠

    20 min
  4. Broadly Speaking: Trailer

    SEASON 1, EPISODE 1 TRAILER

    Broadly Speaking: Trailer

    Peatlands may be the UK’s biggest untapped solution to Net Zero. Drained lowlands that once supported livelihoods now sit at the heart of a climate dilemma. In three episodes, natural history writers Patrick Barkham and Helen Baczkowska, alongside those who manage and own the Broads National Park, explore a landscape on the edge of change.

    3 min

Trailer

About

Funded by Defra, the Broads Authority is building a peatland community to confront one of the region’s most urgent climate challenges: reducing greenhouse gas emissions from 2,000 hectares of drained peat soils. Through the Broads Peat Partnership, action is underway across the Broads, and this podcast forms a key part of that engagement work. In each episode, Andrea Kelly—who has worked in the Broads for over 30 years—speaks with farmers, landowners, water managers and authors to capture diverse perspectives and explore real-world solutions.

Information

  • Creator
    Broads National Park
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Broads National Park
  • Show Website
    Broadly Speaking