Worm From Home

Worm From Home
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Worm From Home

Worm from Home is a podcast project that explores urban ecosystems, their participants and contradictions, in the context of the environmental history of East London. Where does ‘the natural’ in the city end, and the ‘unnatural’ begin? How do we think about organic non-human life in wholly ‘unnatural’ landscapes, in cityscapes? Why do we find these binary frames around the artificial and the natural so lacking, yet still seem to somehow need them to think about the world?

Episodes

  1. 12 DEC

    Air (Pt 1 - Smog)

    How has air pollution shaped the ecology of East London, and affected the people who live here? How did the devastating Great Smog of 1952 lead to long term change - and what is needed to secure clean air for the future? ------------------------------------ Great Tit recording by Henry Law - source ⁠xeno-canto.org⁠, under Creative Commons license

    54 min

  2. 20 OCT

    Earthworms - special episode

    Happy International Earthworm Day! ------------------------------------ Great Tit recording by Henry Law - source xeno-canto.org, under Creative Commons license

    29 min

  3. 2 AUG

    War and the Woods (Part 3)

    In the third and final instalment of this series of episodes on woodlands and warfare, we focus in on East London. How did the Blitz disrupt the urban landscape of the East End, and how have woodlands and wildlife formed a part of its post war recovery? ------------------------------------ Great Tit recording by Henry Law - source ⁠xeno-canto.org⁠, under Creative Commons license

    44 min

  4. 23 MAY

    War and the Woods (Part 2)

    In Part 2 of a series exploring woodlands and war, we look at the history of the environmental damage of war, and its impact on woodlands in particular. In France, Vietnam, and Britain, woodlands have played crucial roles as sites of, resources for, and means of recovery after warfare. How has war altered these landscapes? What pressures shape their restoration, and do human beings recover alongside them? ------------------------------------ Great Tit recording by Henry Law - source , under Creative Commons license

    51 min

  5. 1 MAY

    War and the Woods (Part 1)

    Over a series of episodes, we’ll discover how a woodland came to be growing in Bethnal Green, and use this story to trace the intertwined histories of warfare and woodlands In part 1 we dig into the history of woods in Britain, the habitats they create, and consider how changing forms of human intervention have altered the woodland landscape. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great Tit recording by Henry Law - source xeno-canto.org, under Creative Commons license

    38 min

  6. 16 APR

    Intro

    Welcome to Worm From Home

    2 min

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Worm from Home is a podcast project that explores urban ecosystems, their participants and contradictions, in the context of the environmental history of East London. Where does ‘the natural’ in the city end, and the ‘unnatural’ begin? How do we think about organic non-human life in wholly ‘unnatural’ landscapes, in cityscapes? Why do we find these binary frames around the artificial and the natural so lacking, yet still seem to somehow need them to think about the world?

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