Podcast appearances and mentions of Rob Davies

In episode 109 we are doing something a bit different as I'm taking you along on a big summer ghost hunt. You join me at the site of a former infectious diseases hospital, which is today the countryside centre for the vast country park in which it is located. My small team and I will be part of an organised paranormal investigation and you'll hear almost an hour of audio from that night. And trust me, it's a night that no one in attendance will forget in a hurry........as hard as they may try. So join Tom, John and I and let us find out together, just how haunted is the Scaffold Hill Hospital? Huge thanks to Spiritus Paranormal, check out their future investigations on their Facebook page www.facebook.com/SpiritusParanormalInvestigations Check out Rob Davies' YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/c/DeadAirTV Support How Haunted? by subscribing and leaving a review. In July Rob will be taking on the "most difficult" walk in the North York Moors to raise money for Cancer Research UK. If you'd wish to sponsor us you can do so at justgiving.com/page/walk4john2025 Find out more about the pod at https://www.how-haunted.com and you can email Rob at Rob@how-haunted.com You can become a Patreon for as little as £1 a month. You can choose from three tiers and get yourself early access to episodes, and exclusive monthly episodes - much like this one - where Rob will conduct ghost hunts and you'll hear the audio from the night. You can even get yourself some exclusive How Haunted? merch. To sign up, and take advantage of a free seven day trial, visit https://patreon.com/HowHauntedPod Perhaps you'd rather buy me a coffee to make a one off donation to support the pod, you can do that at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HowHauntedPod Music in this episode includes: Darren Curtis – Lurking Evil: https://youtu.be/3i0aVnpeppw " HORROR PIANO MUSIC " composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek" Music link :https://youtu.be/xbjuAGgk5lU || SUBSCRIBE us on YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/DQQmmCl8crQ || Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/33RWRtP || Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/2ImU2JV

Today, we look at three aspects of automation to give listeners a better view of its efficacy and some of its inherent challenges. First, we provide an overview, then  a look at securing applications, and finally, we give a view on threat intelligence. PART ONE: Role of Automation Jason Ralph from the Department of Labor puts the entire discussion into perspective when he states that AI should not be considered as a replacement for current efforts at automation, but as an augmentation. Further, he cautions that accelerating adoption must be tempered with a more reasonable approach where you can be assured your data is not poisoned. When not used judiciously, automation can introduce more conflicts and errors than when used at all. Context is everything in today's complex systems, and Nick Vinson suggests that using an approach called "threat modeling" can give system designers better ideas of automation's impact.  PART TWO: Application Security & Cloud Telemetry Malicious actors noticed the emphasis on data security and are now directing attacks on applications. Applications can be complex to protect when located in a public, private, and hybrid cloud maze. Rob Davies from Peraton refers to using telemetry to understand where resources are located so that we can leverage them. Telemetry can collect data from various sources, typically on a network. Monitoring this data gives you system performance. Peter Chestna from Checkmarx observes tools from cloud service providers may be too superficial and will not allow a deeper investigation of the automation process. PART THREE:  Threat Intelligence & Risk Visibility In sports, there is an adage: "ya can't tell the players without a scorecard." Eric Werner from the DoD shares with listeners the Enhanced Network Sensor and Intelligence Threat Enumeration (ENSITE). Based on insight provided by the MITRE framework, it allows for new threat vectors to be distributed and reduces duplication. David Monneir from Team CYMRU starts with a strategic observation. He notes that in the federal government, a nation-state actor will persistently attack because the goal is much more serious than an attack on a bank. All the experts agree on the concepts of knowing your vulnerabilities, learning what controls are in place, and knowing what capabilities you have.  

Rob Davies, from Wales, will be taking home a silver medal from the Paris Paralympics. He spoke to Allan Russell before taking a well deserved break. Rob with his silver medal around his neck sits in his wheelchair, whilst Allan holds up a microphone, sitting to his right. Rob has short dark hair and a bit of a stubble.

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Originally released for Patreon supporters in September 2023 I hope you enjoy this very special episode.   In the 13th Patreon bonus podcast I make the short 20 minute drive to the village of Springwell in Sunderland to investigate Bowes Railway Museum.   But what would happen when my team and I joined an organised investigation to see what would happen in this former railway once darkness fell? In this episode not only will I tell you all about the location and our investigation, but you'll hear actual audio from the night itself.   Tonight, let us ask, just how haunted is Bowes Railway Museum?   Support How Haunted? by subscribing and leaving a review.   Vote for How Haunted? in the British Podcast Awards before the 29 August 2024 at www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting   You can become a Patreon for as little as £1 a month. You can choose from three tiers and get yourself early access to episodes, and exclusive monthly episodes where Rob will conduct ghost hunts and you'll hear the audio from the night. There are eight episodes available right now. You can even get yourself some exclusive How Haunted? merch, and join me on a paranormal investigation via livestream.   To sign up visit https://patreon.com/HowHauntedPod   Perhaps you'd rather buy me a coffee to make a one off donation to support the pod, you can do that at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HowHauntedPod   Find out more about the pod at https://www.how-haunted.com and you can email Rob at Rob@how-haunted.com   Huge thanks to Spiritus Paranormal Research for inviting us to join them for the investigation. Check out their website at www.spiritusparanormal.co.uk and if they're running an event near you, why not join them and go in search of the paranormal for yourself?   You can join Rob Davies on paranormal investigations at some truly incredible locations on his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@DeadAirTV   Music in this episode includes: "Darren Curtis - Demented Nightmare" https://youtu.be/g_O4kS9FP3k   " HORROR PIANO MUSIC " composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek" Music link :https://youtu.be/xbjuAGgk5lU || SUBSCRIBE us on YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/DQQmmCl8crQ || Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/33RWRtP || Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/2ImU2JV

Join Dan Walkley and Rob Davies as they 'grill' Berks County manager Ellis Woods ahead of a historic first-ever FA Cup tie for The Swords.Episode presented by Dan Walkley and Rob Davies. The Berkshire Football Stories theme tune is 'Space Camp' but Reading-based ukulele band Rocket Kings.Find out more about Rocket Kings: https://rocketkings.bandcamp.com/ (they are a side project of our awards night 'house band' The Small Strings.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit footballinberkshire.substack.com

In this episode of Paratalk, I am joined by Rob Davies of the popular Dead Air YouTube channel. We delve into his most recent paranormal investigations, discussing the eerie encounters and his insights on these mysterious experiences.Find Rob.YouTube @DeadAirTVInstagram @deadairofficialPodcast Dead Air Clinically Dead on SpotifyFind Paratalk.https://linktr.ee/paratalkpodcastBuy Me a Coffee:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/paratalkpodChannel Promotion.401 files on YouTube @401files4

Kenneth Meshoe was born in Pretoria and is the fourth of seven children.  He completed his Matric Certificate in 1972.  In 1975 he graduated from the University of the North with a Secondary Teachers Diploma.  In 1976, he married Lydia and they have three children, Olga, Esther and Joshua.  In 1983, Kenneth went to Shekinah Bible Institute in Kingsport, Tennessee in the US, where he did the first year of his Theological Diploma.  He later returned to Kingsport in January 1987 to complete his 2nd year Diploma. In 1988, Kenneth and Lydia started a non-denominational, praying church in Vosloorus, Gauteng, called Hope of Glory Tabernacle that is involved in running a number of community projects in the area.  The church strongly advocates the power of prayer and actively mobilises Christians to pray for the nation of South Africa. Kenneth and Lydia are both international speakers, who travel extensively, speaking at conferences in many parts of world. In December 1993, they started a political party based on biblical principles called the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), and Kenneth became it's first President and has remained thus to date.  He also has also served as a Member of Parliament for the ACDP since 1994. In 2006, Kenneth completed a one-year programme in Economics and Public Finance with the Department of Economics at the University of South Africa. In 2008, Kenneth Meshoe completed his Advanced Diploma in Economic Policy (ADEP) with the University of the Western Cape. Notable Achievements Between 1994 and 1996, Kenneth was the only Evangelical Christian represented in the Constitutional Assembly's Management Committee. The Committee was made up of around six to eight Members of Parliament. The rest of its contingent (12 in all) were officials. The Committee was tasked with the organisation and management of the overall Constitution-making process. One of its major responsibilities was to ensure that the Constitutional Assembly worked according to an agreed schedule in order to meet its two-year target in which to complete the drafting of our new South African Constitution by 8 May 1996. This was achieved. During the Constitution-making process, the ANC had made it very clear that it wished to see South Africa declared a secular state, which aimed to separate Church and State. Kenneth Meshoe, however, championed a backlash against this, both in Theme Committee 1 (Character of the State) that dealt with this particular clause  and by raising his concerns over the implications such a status with as many Christians who would listen. As a result, in 1995, a protest march under the banner of the “Christian Voice' was organised which saw Christians in their thousands march to Parliament against the proposed secular state clause as well as other concerning clauses in the draft Constitution, including the right to life and anti-discrimination clauses on the grounds of sexual orientation, all of which undermined our Biblical values. As a result, the Constitution today states that South Africa is a Constitutional Democracy, and churches can, to this day, fellowship in state-owned school classrooms and halls, civic centres and can still pitch a tent in which to meet or hold crusades on state-owned land. In addition, faith-based political parties are able to exist and work to defend their the values and principles of their faith in all levels of government and religious leaders are able to serve as Members of Parliament. Also notable is that South Africa is the only African country to have a Christian Party serving in its Parliament. “The ACDP would like to see a Constitution that is the supreme law of the land, a Constitution that protects not only the rights of individuals but also those of unborn children. The ACDP wishes to see a Constitution that will be legitimate, enduring and that upholds biblical, family and traditional values.” Rev KRJ Meshoe, MP - Constitutional Assembly, 24 January 1995. Kenneth and the ACDP continues to be a voice for Christians at Parliament and other levels of government where attacks on our faith often creep in. One such example is that of proposals made to remove Christian Holy Days such as Easter and Christmas as official public holidays, as had been done with Ascension Day. The overwhelming majority of South Africans claim to be Christian and such a move was unthinkable. Kenneth arranged protest marches aptly branded “Hands Off Christmas and Good Friday!” His call was then reiterated in the ACDP's submission which he handed over to the then Minister of Home Affairs, Ms Naledi Pandor. Through continued awareness campaigns and protests, sufficient pressure was placed on government to ensure the matter went no further. In 2012, Kenneth organised a protest march in defence of Israel after the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies, gazetted General Notice 370 or 2012 that required Israel to label its products as originating from “Occupied Palestinian Territories”. In June 2013, Kenneth established a non-profit organisation called DEISI International, with a mandate to challenge the ignorance of many about the true facts regarding the right of Israel to exist within safe and secure borders, and to dispel the lie that Israel is an apartheid state. DEISI is an acronym for Defend, Embrace, Invest, Support Israel. In 2020, after South Africans were placed under a severe, prolonged lockdowns and had many of their Constitutional freedoms undermined as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kenneth was extremely concerned, particularly given its potential threat to our economy and job security. He was also outraged that churches were not allowed to meet in person, except under excessively strict regulations, and that mandatory vaccination was being introduced by some universities and businesses. Kenneth was at the forefront of fighting for our right to ‘choose' whether or not to be vaccinated. He did not want to see anyone being forced to do so, as “even God gives us the choice of whether or not to choose salvation,” he said. Through the ACDP, he was able to be a voice for workers who had been given an ultimatum by their employers to ‘get vaccinated or lose your job'. He encouraged them to stand their ground and not be pressurised into violating the dictates of their consciences. Some lost their jobs as a result but Kenneth remained resolute and ensured that the ACDP fought for them at the CCMA, a fight that saw a number of these unfair dismissals rightly overturned.  Kenneth led also a similar campaign at various universities that were refusing access to students who chose not to be vaccinated.   Awards On the 18th December 1994, Kenneth Meshoe was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Humane Letters, abbreviated L.H.D.), by Bethel Christian College in Riverside, California, USA, and was also appointed to serve as an Associate Member on the Board of Regents of Bethel College. In 1998, Kenneth was awarded the ‘International Leadership Award' for outstanding leadership in the church and nation by the Australian Federation of Festival of Light Community Standards Organisation at the New South Wales Parliament House. He was awarded a second Honorary Doctorate (L.H.D.) in 2007 by Logos Graduate School, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. In November 2013, the international organisation, Stand With Us, in Michigan, USA, presented Kenneth Meshoe with the ‘Star of David' award. In 2014, Kenneth was honoured with the ‘Jerusalem Award 2014' conferred on him by the World Zionist Organisation. In September 2015, Israel Today Nigeria, in conjunction with the Embassy of Israel in Abuja, gave Kenneth the “Jerusalem Ambassador” award. On this episode of The One Way Ticket Show, Reverend Meshoe (affectionately known as The Rev) shares his one way ticket to a peaceful and prosperous South Africa that is a very close friend of Israel. Given South Africa's national and provincial elections on May 29th, 2024, The Rev provides an assessment of South Africa today, and weighs in on the country's poorly performing economy, high employment and crime and regular power cuts. He shares why people are looking for answers outside of the ANC which has ruled South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994. He also highlights how South Africa can learn from Israel's water management, science and technological advancements and economic development to create a successful South Africa. Moreover, he shares why it's factually incorrect to call Israel an apartheid state and how those that do, trivialise  the pain and suffering South Africans experienced during those dark years. And when asked what Nelson Mandela would make of South Africa today, The Rev responded: “A heart break which might lead to a heart attack. He would faint.”

In this special episode we feature two guests from a new production of Oliver! Starring as Fagin, we meet Rob Davies, and keeping everyone in order is producer Rebecca Green. Both come from Eccleshall Community Amateur Dramatics (ECAD). We talk about how the production is going, how the society was formed, and what the audience can expect, as well as talking about the importance of local community theatre. There's the usual features such as Claim to Fame and, of course, Coffee Time.  If you like what you hear, and you can afford it, you can make a one-off donation to us via:Ko-Fi.com You can buy us a coffee by going to Buy Me A Coffee! We like coffee! (It's a coffee-based podcast

Slough Town are on the cusp of the Vanarama National League South play-offs. Rob Davies and Neil Maskell discuss what Scott Davies is getting right on and off the pitch. Elsewhere, Virginia Water's hunt for a new home goes to the planners. Listen to the full Berkshire Football Stories episode of the podcast at https://footballinberkshire.co.uk/how... Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinbe... Get more Berkshire Football in your life. Subscribe for free at: https://footballinberkshire.co.uk/con... Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission

Rob Davies is joined by Neil Maskell and the Maidenhead Advertisers Joshua Browne on the latest Berkshire Football Stories podcast from Football in Berkshire. The panel discuss Wokingham & Emmbrook vs Holyport, cover off Maidenhead United and Slough Town's continued progress and try to unpick Bracknell Town's home and away form. Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/ #podcast #nonleague #berkshire 

In the electrifying first episode of 2024, Pace and Shane invite Larry Fisher, head of content at Power Play, and Rob Davies, chief operating officer at Power Play on to the show for an enlightening discussion on what makes a sportsbook tick; from limiting players, how sharp bettors are (or aren't) welcome on their platform to how a sportsbook ought to run, and other topics. Rob faces some tough and pointed questions from Shane and Pace about some of the practices on the Power Play site with Pace offering some solutions on how those problems might be addressed. From voiding bets to overcoming the challenges that sportsbooks face pose to bettors, this episode provides an insightful peek behind the curtain for sports bettors and enthusiasts alike, with more conversations like this to come for 2024!If you want to join our community - use coupon code BEHINDTHELINES for a discount on your quarterly plan here:https://courses.inplaylive.com/p/plansAlso, FREE WEBINAR TRAINING TODAY (from one of the world's top live sports wagering experts): https://event.webinarjam.com/register/4/9p7x3c2`In today's webinar: how to wager on sports successfully — Andrew's favorite live sports strategies, value wagering tips, and advice on how to wager on sports, so you can make money over the long term.

A bumper panel on the first Berkshire Football Stories podcast of 2024 with Tom Canning hosting panelists Neil Graham, Neil Maskell, Dan Walkley and Rob Davies. This week the team cover the thorny issue of postponements and when they should happen, answer 'can Binfield stay up' and throw the spotlight on upwardly mobile Maidenhead United Women. Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/

Berkshire Football Stories returns to the airwaves with Rob Davies hosting alongside guests Tom Canning and Alicia Povey. The team discuss Tuesday night's County Cup results, go through what's next in the Women's FA Cup Second Round, touch on a brand new beer for local football fans AND Berkshire footballs success in the Cricket World Cup. Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/you

Berkshire Football Stories is hosted by Rob Davies and this week he is joined by Tom Canning and Neil Maskell. The team discuss the FA Cup heroics of Slough Town, Bracknell Town and Maidenhead United as well as England call ups for a current Royal and several former Reading FC Women players while we have voice notes from Alicia Povey on her England Beach Soccer debut and Neil Graham who was at the Slough game on Tuesday night. Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 You can also listen to the latest episode in podcast form at https://footballinberkshire.co.uk/how-to-listen-to-the-berkshire-football-stories-podcast/ Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast is also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/

Rob Davies makes a welcome return to Paratalk. Rob tells me about his recent investigations, Including a very haunted shopping mall.Find Rob on the link below.https://www.paranormalhub.com/deadairMore Paratalk below.https://linktr.ee/paratalkpodcastMake a donation.https://www.buymeacoffee.com/paratalkpod

Cape Cod isn't exactly known as a landscape photography destination, at least not in the circles I run in; however, I do think that it has incredible photographic potential. This potential is best tapped into by a local expert; someone with extensive knowledge of place with a real connection to the area. Today's guest on the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen Podcast, Betty Wiley is perhaps the single photographer people think of when it comes to being an expert on Cape Cod. She has been photographing it extensively since 2006 when she moved there and hasn't looked back. Her images are used by several local publications, where she has found a great deal of success. On this week's episode, we discuss: How Betty got into photography and how her love affair with Cape Cod developed. Including man-made objects and people in our landscape photographs. Why Betty has become so in love with photographing lighthouses. How and why editing is important in our landscape photography. Managing expectations in the field. Planning tools for making better photographs on the coast. The challenges with criticism. Editing tools and how to use them. And a lot more! Other topics/links discussed on the podcast this week: Support the podcast on Patreon. My article about honesty in photography. Landscape Photography server on Discord. The Natural Landscape Photography Awards. Watch podcast episodes on YouTube, where we overlay photos with our conversation via video. Here is who Betty recommended on the podcast this week: Rob Davies. Joanna Steidle. I love hearing from the podcast listeners! Reach out to me via Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter if you'd like to be on the podcast or if you have an idea of a topic we can talk about. We also have an Instagram page, a Facebook Page, and a Facebook Group - so don't be shy! We also have a searchable transcript of every episode! Thanks for stopping in, collaborating with us, and listening. See you next week. P.S. you can also support the podcast by purchasing items through our B+H affiliate link.

Berkshire Football Stories is back with a weekly chat podcast covering Tuesday night's FA Cup replay between Winchester City and Reading City, Clodagh Farrell's inclusion in the England Deaf World Cup squad and the big question is asked - are we worried about Maidenhead United? Rob Davies hosts with panellists Tom Canning and Dan Walkley. Questions? Email podcast@footballinberkshire.co.uk Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/

Berkshire Football Stories is back with a weekly chat podcast covering Tuesday night's big derby between Holyport and Virginia Water, the weekends FA Trophy and Women's FA Cup fallout and the team are joined by Damian Scurr of Frilsham & Yattendon for a catchup. Rob Davies hosts with panellists Tom Canning and Bob Bacon. Questions? Email podcast@footballinberkshire.co.uk Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/

Berkshire Football Stories is back with a weekly chat podcast covering both FA Cup's, Jemel Johnson's move to join his brother at Windsor & Eton and just why Finchampstead were named our team of the month. Rob Davies hosts with panelists Abi Ticehurst and Bob Bacon. Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/

Discover the fascinating ancient art of coppicing as we visit Priory Grove in Wales' Wye Valley, where the technique is still practised on a small scale to benefit both people and wildlife. We meet site manager Rob and contractor Joe to learn more about the coppicing carried out here, and how this interaction between people and nature has enabled the two to develop and evolve in tandem. Also in this episode, find out how an unfortunate end for ash trees resulted in a fantastic sea of wild garlic, the team's efforts to encourage dormice, bats, pine martens and other wildlife and which tree to identify by likening the trunk to elephants' feet!  Don't forget to rate us and subscribe! Learn more about the Woodland Trust at woodlandtrust.org.uk Transcript You are listening to Woodland Walks, a podcast for the Woodland Trust presented by Adam Shaw. We protect and plant trees for people, for wildlife.  Adam: Well, today I am off to Priory Grove, which is next door really to the River Wye near Monmouth in Wales to meet the site manager Rob there who's gonna give me a bit of a tour. It's predominantly made up of ancient woodland and provides a wide range of habitats for wildlife. Things like roe, fallow deer, they're known to forage throughout the area, and a wide variety of bird species, including the tawny owl, sparrowhawk, and the great spotted woodpecker, which can all be seen on the wing here. All very exciting and I've just got to find it and find Rob.  Rob: Hello, I'm Rob Davies, site manager, South East Wales.  Adam: So tell me a little bit about where we are and why this is significant.  Rob: This is Priory Grove woodland. It's quite a large site on the outskirts of Monmouth, but nobody really knows what its history is. It's it's called Priory Grove, presumably because it was attached to one of the monastic estates round here. And that probably accounts for its survival as one of the one of the largest ancient woodlands next to Monmouth. And it did retain a lot of its coppice woodland, which is quite important for biodiversity.  Adam: Right. And what we're, I mean, we're standing by some felled, are these oak?  Rob: These are oak. Yes, oak, oak in length.  Adam: So why why have these been felled?  Rob: This is part of the coppice restoration programme, so coppicing on this site has been a management tool that's been used for hundreds if not thousands of years in this area and it's used to produce products like this, this oak that will go into timber framing and furniture and all those good things. And also, firewood is part of the underwood and the the the hazel and the the the understory coppice. So products for people and in the past it was used for all kinds of things before we had plastic. But it's still very useful, and so because it didn't cease until recently on this site, the animals and plants and the fauna that relies upon this method that have evolved with it essentially in the last 10,000 years or so since we've been managing woods in this way, still are present here on this site or in the local area. So if you continue the cycle you continue this interaction with the wildlife and you can help to reverse the biodiversity declines. So it's very holistic, really this management technique. But it does mean that to make space for the coppice regrowth, because trees don't grow under trees, you know it needs the light. The light needs to be there for the coppice to come up again. You have to take out some of these mature oaks that were planted 150, 200 years ago, with the intention of being used in the future. So we're planting things and we're carrying out the plans, we're bringing them to fruition, what people enacted a couple of hundred years ago.  Adam: It it's interesting, isn't it, because it it it is an ancient woodland, but that doesn't mean it's an untouched woodland, because for hundreds of years it's it's been managed. Man has had a hand in this and not only that, commerce has had a hand in that, so often I think we think of these things as a dichotomy. You have ancient woodland, nice, pristine sort of nature, and then you have sort of horrible invasive commerce. Actually, I think what's interesting about this site is that there isn't that dichotomy. They both work in tandem, is that fair?   Rob: That's right, it's a false dichotomy. So the reason these woods have survived is because they were used for people, and because of the way they're managed, coppicing and thinning is quite a sensitive technique, it allows space for nature to be present and to develop and evolve in tandem, so they're not mutually exclusive.  Adam: Yes. So tell me about coppicing is an important part of this site, tell me a little bit about what you're doing at the moment with that.  Rob: Yeah, so we've had a grant actually from the Wye Valley AONB from, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, to to do some coppicing work on stands that were coppiced about 20 years ago. So we're continuing that cycle. And we've been working with a company called Wye Coppice Community Interest Company, Wye Coppice CIC, and they're quite developed in, in the Wye Valley area. And we formed a good relationship with them and through them we've been able to do half a hectare of coppicing up on the other slope higher up in the site there. If you like we can go up and meet Joe?  Adam: That would be wonderful. Yeah. You you lead on I will follow. Well, you can hear from this I'm a bit out of breath, we've claimed, OK, I'll be embarrassed to say it's a hill, a small incline, but we've come across this stand of of felled trees. So just tell me a bit about what's going on here.  Rob: Exactly. So all these stumps you can see scattered throughout the stand. This is the coppice, so it's cut down to just above base ground level there now and it will just regrow. So it's kind of a natural defence strategy that we're just exploiting. So it's it's been used to, it's, you know, since it evolved things like hazel especially, it‘s used to being browsed off by animals, the animals move on and then the tree just comes back. So it's like a phoenix strategy it comes back, back up again. We're just exploiting that. So we'll cut the tree to base and then we'll protect the regrowth from the browsing animals and then the tree will come again.  Adam: Right, and this is the work done by Joe?  Rob: Yeah, this yeah so this is the work done by Joe Weaver. Joe's just down the end there actually if you want to come and meet him.  Adam: OK, let's go have it let's go meet him. Ohh I've got stuck. OK, so Joe, this is all your handiwork.  Joe: It is, yes.  Adam: Tell me a bit about what what it is you do then.  Joe: So I run Wye Coppice CIC, we're a coppice contracting company and working with Woodland Trust, Natural Resource Wales and Wildlife Trusts throughout the Wye Valley and we're embarking on a project to restore areas of the Wye Valley to restore, do a coppice restoration project for for various organisations throughout the Wye Valley. The what you see, what you see here is about 1 1/2 acres of cut down trees with 7 or 8 standards.  Adam: What are standards?  Joe: The standards are the trees that we've left behind, so, so they're the large, they're the larger trees.  Adam: Oh, I see right. So you wouldn't be coppicing, these are very well established big trees, you don't coppice trees like that, you coppice quite small trees, don't you?  Joe: Yes, so all the small diameter understory trees we've cut down to ground level and and they will, they will resprout and grow back again. We can then come back in 10 years and recut them and have a healthy supply of continue, a continual healthy supply of pole wood.  Adam: And yeah, so what you're trying to get with coppicing is sort of quite it's quite small diameter wood, is that correct?  Joe: Yes, generally speaking, so this is a restoration project you can see this first cut is fairly large diameter. And so most of this will go to make charcoal but generally speaking after 10, maybe 15 years of growth, we'll have poles about sort of thumb size and maybe up to about 50 pence diameter.  Adam: Right. And that's ideal size, is it?  Joe: And that's a really good size for products like bean poles, hedging stakes and binders that go on the top of naturally laid hedging and then various other pole wood applications.  Adam: And and when you see a coppiced tree, evidence that it's been coppiced, there's, I'm trying to look over there, is is this where you see lots of different branches actually coming out from the stump in the ground? That's evidence that's been coppiced, cause it not just one thing grows, lots of them?  Joe: That's right. So you can, if you have one birch tree standing up, for example, you can cut that down to the ground, and when you come back in a few months' time, you'll notice about 5 or 6 shoots coming from that one stump at the bottom of the ground. So if we can protect that from deer browsing and rabbit browsing, then those stems, those five or six shoots will grow up into individual stems that we can then use use in pole wood products.  Adam: It's odd, isn't it that that happens, though, that you chop down one sort of main stem and you get four or five coming back, that's sort of an  odd natural thing to happen, isn't it?  Joe: It is. I think it's the tree's response to the stress of being cut down. So it sort of puts out a lot of it puts a lot of energy into regrowing new growth to try to survive because essentially these broadleaf species, trees, they're they're forever growing, you can cut them down they'll regrow, cut them down again, they'll regrow again. So it's a constant cycle of of regrowth.  Adam: Yeah it's it's like sort of, you know, thumbing their nose at you isn't it, going well, you cut me down well I'm gonna come back fivefold. You know, that's it's a sort of really funny response.  Joe: Indeed. But we can reap the benefits of that.  Adam: Yeah no, no, it's, I get, I get why that's good. And coppicing itself, that, and that's an ancient art, isn't it?  Joe: It has, certainly here in the Wye Valley it was practised at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to produce charcoal to power the Industrial Revolution until coal was iintroduced and so it happened for hundreds and hundreds of years here.  Adam: Right. So you think, do you think I mean there's no need for you to be an historical expert on the history of coppicing, but do you think that's the first big sign of it happening, sort of Industrial Revolution time?  Joe: Certainly around here it is yeah, and there's some of the coupes that we've cut, some of the coppice areas that we've cut here, we've found evidence of charcoal hearths. So you can see flat areas with bits of charcoal sort of sliding down the bank.  Adam: So that would be ancient sites in here, well, ancient, I mean, a few 100 years old of them actually making charcoal in this woodland?  Joe: Yes, in this woodland, throughout the Wye Valley all the way throughout the Wye Valley here, yes.  Adam: Amazing. Now so your company, it's not just a traditional sort of private business, it is a a different sort of form. Just explain how that works.  Joe: So we run a community interest company and that allows us to access grant funding if we need to. Essentially, we're run as a private business, but we are able to do community outreach work as well and that's part of what we do is to try to educate people about sustainable woodland management.  Adam: And how did you get involved in all of this then? Did you grow up as a boy going I want to chop down trees to make fences.  Joe: No, I didn't. I was walking in the Dolomites, I saw two stoats fighting and thought woodland life is for me *laughs*.  Adam: Ok, well, fantastic, never heard that, so inspired by the the battle between two stoats and the and and the Dolomites. That's fantastic, but a hard life, I would have thought to run a business to, I mean it's physical work anyway, but that's my perception from the outside, is it hard work?  Joe: It it can be very difficult, it does have its benefits. Obviously it keeps you fit and it gets you outside but yes, it is a hard life and and you know it's it's quite a technical job as well and the training is expensive so we're trying to introduce a training programme as well through through our through our business Wye Coppice to try to get young people interested in woodland management.  Adam: And do you find that people sometimes don't understand or or perhaps disagree with the fact that commerce and nature can be actually mutually beneficial? Do you find that an issue at all?  Joe: Yes I do. Yes, and we're we're we're always willing to stop and talk to dog walkers especially. Shortly after COP26, we had two dog walkers come past and shout at us for chopping the trees down, after sitting down with them and having a cup of tea, they bought a bag of charcoal off us.  Adam: Right ok very good there we are. You're bringing them round one by one, one by one, those customers are coming over. Well brilliant and we've had not a bad day. I thought I might have to put my wet weather gear on, but it's been it's been OK. Anyway well, that's brilliant thank you very much. That's been really interesting.  Joe: Thank you.  Adam: So we've got this stand of trees we're looking at Rob. A couple couple of oak. Did you say that was a lime?   Rob: That's a lime yeah.   Adam: That's the lime, that that one with lots of ridges in it is that the lime?  Rob: That's it, yeah.  Adam: That's the lime. So why have you left these trees? Is there particular reasons you didn't take these ones out?  Rob: Yeah. So these as you can see, these are all mature trees and so you don't take these decisions lightly. So when we coppice this sort of half a football field area here, there were thirteen of these big mature trees, trees you can barely get your hands around as they're so large, taken a couple of hundred years to grow, so you've got to be quite careful and quite selective, although you need the light. There's an old adage about oak trees, it goes something like this that to fell an oak tree you need three things. You need a good eye, a sharp axe and a cold heart because these trees, you know they've been grown and nurtured and developed, and they're impressive life forms. And so it's not something you do without considering it very carefully so so you can see a couple of trees in here which are a couple of oaks, good size, but they're full of ivy, very dense ivy and that's very good for wintering bats. For hibernation, or for potentially summer roosting.  Adam: So the bats would live just amongst the Ivy, they'd sleep amongst the ivy?  Rob: Yeah when it gets as dense as this, when it's really all knotted, entwined, there's lots of gaps behind it. You could stick your hand in and find little cavities and several species of bat, especially pipistrelle, they they will hibernate over winter in this kind of growth. So you really don't want to be disturbing this.  Adam:  Right. And and what what's, is there something specific about lime that wildlife like is there any particular wildlife?  Rob: Well, it's good for bees. It's good good good pollen.  Adam: You get beehives in there? Oh I see, the pollen itself is good.  Rob: They like the flowers. Yeah yeah it produces lots of the small leaved lime it produces lots of good flowers and and it will attract aphids which is actually a food source for for dormice in the summer. So they they feed on the feed on the lime sap, you know if you park your car under a lime tree, you'll get this very sticky kind of substance coming off it.  Adam: Yes, yeah, yeah. Of course it does. Yes. Yeah, yeah.  Rob: So that attracts aphids, attracts the dormice, it's good for insects who like nectar as well. So it's a it's a very valuable tree and and you know  Adam: So interesting it's it's not valuable commercially, it's valuable for nature.  Rob: Yeah, absolutely. And it's quite it's quite a special tree in the in the Wye Valley, it doesn't occur much outside this area naturally, and it's kind of an ancient woodland indicator in this part of the world, perhaps not officially, but it's a.  Adam: OK. Any other trees we've got here?  Rob: Yeah. The rest of the trees, then are beech.  Adam: Right and you've kept those why?  Rob: Yeah, because you can see if you look at this one here, it's got quite a few cavities in it at the base at the top, beech tends to do that. It tends to take, form little cavities, rot holes and ways in, and that's ways in for fungus and then they eat out and hollow the tree. So the potential for harbouring bats again is very high in these trees. Without sort of going into them, doing some invasive exploration, you can't tell, but it's it's very high potential for bats. So again, bats, all species of bats in this country are protected under law because they've had massive declines like a lot of woodland species. And so we'll do everything we can to retain that habitat.  Adam: It's it's the Field of Dreams, philosophy. You you build it and they will come.  Rob: Yeah, yeah. This as long as it stays there, it'll always be valuable as habitat and so at least then, there are future sort of veteran trees within this stand.  Adam: It is interesting you you've already, I mean, we've only done a short part of this walk so far, but you talked about whoever was managing this woodland 100 years ago knew what they were talking about. And I think that's fascinating that we don't know who that person is or who who they, who those people were. And in 100 years time, people won't know who you were p.sumably, but the the evidence of your work will be here. They'll go yeah, that was a good bloke who did all this and left us with something.  Rob: That's it, you you don't plant trees for yourself, you plant trees for the future generation so you know, I won't see the oaks I plant develop. I'll be dead long before they mature and it's the same for the person who did this. But you can see the ones we took out, the ones I took out and selected were tall and straight. And that means that the coppice is well managed, because there was enough light for the hazel in the understory to come up straight away. If you cut hazel to the ground and you protect it, in a couple of years, it'll be way above six, eight foot and it'll just continue to get higher and higher over the next few years. And what that does is it shades the stem of the oak and it prevents side branching. So you get this very tall initial first stem. And that's what you're looking for. And that's what these trees had. So this would have clearly been cared for and these trees have been selected, they were on a journey from the moment they were planted.  Adam: OK. And just on my journey of education about trees, how do, what, they're beech, I wouldn't be able to spot that myself, what tells you they're beech?  Rob: It's a smooth trunk. If you look at this one here now you can see I always think of them as sort of elephant legs. They're grey and they're tall and they're smooth and they quite often have sort of knobbly bits on the base like an elephant's foot. And if you go through a stand of pure beech, it looks like it looks like a stand of elephants' feet, really tall, grey stems and these big huge buttress roots.  Adam: Fantastic. I am never going to forget that and I will always think of elephants when I look at a beech, a brilliant brilliant clue. Thank you. Right. So where we off to now?  Rob: We'll walk around so you can see the top of the coupe and just see the extent of it and and then we'll walk back down perhaps and have a look at this oak.   Adam: Brilliant. Well we've come to the, over the brow of the hill and along this path, there's a tiny little path for me to walk, and on either side there's a carpet of green. And I think I know what this carpet of green is. Rob, what is it tell me?  Rob: This is wild garlic.   Adam: Yeah. This is the time of year, is it?  Rob: Yep, you can see the flower heads. Ramsons it's also called, it's just about coming into flower now.  Adam: Sorry they're called what?  Rob: Ramson.  Adam: Ramson. Is that the flower itself is called ramson, or is that?  Rob: Well, just the plant.  Adam: We call it wild garlic but it's it's real name is ramson?  Rob: Well some people call it ramson too.  Adam: Right OK. And I never, I mean I have never picked and eaten anything from a forest because I am sure I will kill myself, but all of this, I mean, I've seen loads of people do that, pick wild garlic and it's, I mean there's there's acres of the stuff here.  Rob: It can it can yeah any kind of wild plant comes with the caveats that you need to know what you're doing.  Adam: Yes, which which I don't.  Rob: Yeah, absolutely. It's funny yeah, this site is quite well known for its ramsons, for its wild garlic carpets. This this is in response to something here, quite a sad thing actually. We're right next, you can probably hear the road noise there, we're right next to the main road from Monmouth into the Forest of Dean, Staunton Road there, and unfortunately, a lot of the trees along the road edge were big, big, mature ash trees. And they all had dieback and they were all dropping limbs and about to crush a car. And so, you know, we take that very seriously in terms of health and safety so the trees just along the road edge, we left the ones in the wood, just the road edge trees we had to do something about them, so they've either been reduced or felled and what that's done in this woodland where in the last 60 years, you have had very little management, like most woods, post war, very little has happened. So it becomes very high, very closed canopy, very dense. And what's happened, because of the ash felling is, you've got this pocket of light here and the ramsons have immediately responded to that. So this wasn't here last year. This carpet like this.  Adam: What so this is this is brand new?  Rob: This is brand new. It was the odd plant coming up every year, patches of it.  Adam: I'm shocked because this looks like something from the Wizard, if this was yellow, this would be we'd be in the middle of the Wizard of Oz set here, the yellow brick road. It just I mean it it's just a beautiful, winding, lush, dense path of wild garlic. It looks like it's been here forever.  Rob: And in a sense it it was. It was just waiting for the opportunity, waiting for that temporary disturbance caused by the ash felling. And so like with the coppicing, that's what we're trying to recreate essentially, is these temporary pockets of disturbance where you you break up the canopy, you get this flush of greenery and then until the trees recover it and regrow again. So you don't want this homogeneous block of woodland really. You want, you want variation, because that's the key to success for, for wildlife and biodiversity, different niches, different ages. If you look closely, you can see it's not just the garlic either. You can see wood anemone, you can see greater wood vetch, you can see little violets. So, you know, quite quite a lot of species are now taking advantage of this temporary light that the ash felling's produced.  Adam: It is a nice positive message, isn't it? Because ash dieback has been a real tragedy. But even in the midst of problems there are opportunities which nature comes back with, it's an optimistic sign.  Rob: There is and so this as I say, you know these these trees would have coppiced without us because you know when animals browse them, they they they they come back after that so all we're doing is sort of recreating these natural processes through the management of the woodland. A once in a lifetime storm might have knocked these ash out or a hurricane, something like that, could have felled the whole area and then temporary open space, the plants capitalise and then the wood comes back again, so we're just just mimicking what nature does anyway.  Adam: I'm going to take a photo of this, put it on my Twitter feed. It's fantastic. So we've just taken a little stop on this path of wild garlic. So over to the right is well, I thought it was a bird box, it's a large bird box. You tell me it's actually something very specific.   Rob: Yeah, this is a pine marten nest box cause there was there has been a big release of pine marten. Pine martens are native to this country. It's kind of like a large weasel that lives in the trees. That's a really bad way of describing it, but it's a it's a mustelid. It's a large, impressive, intelligent animal and they were sort of pressed to persecute, to extinction, with persecution in the past. But they're very important in these woods for regulating, you know, the biodiversity, they, they prey on the grey squirrel especially, and they'll regulate bird numbers like any predator does. So it's it's great to see them coming back and it's a success story actually, because a couple of years ago now there was a release programme where captive animals were put into the Forest of Dean which is just over that direction. And so we put up some boxes and monitored them and pine martens are moving back into this area now. Whether they're using the boxes or not, we're not entirely sure, but they are moving in, so it's a, it's a really good story. So we'll do whatever we can to sort of encourage them because we've we've lost a lot of this old growth woodland that we're trying to protect and so they haven't got the nest cavities, so temporarily we'll provide this habitat.  Adam: And over the other side of the little dip, there's another pathway and it looks like the bank has been cut away and it's very black so that it doesn't look quite natural. What's going on there?  Rob: Well the the track that's been put in there is exposed, an earlier industry, so that's that's a charcoal platform. See what is it about five, five metres in diameter. Sort of sort of circular and very, very thick layer of charcoal. A huge fire has been there, but that's that's lots and lots of fires, one on top of the other.  Adam: So this is this is not current, this is probably a couple of hundred years old?  Rob: I think the last burn in this woodland would have been before the Second World War.  Adam: Oh right, so not that old.  Rob: Well, I mean, if they were still burning, they would have had the odd one, but this probably dates to sort of the the height of the the periods of the the late 19th century. So this here, it's been buried and forgotten about. But it shows you as Joe was saying earlier, at one point this was a managed wood and quite a few woods in Wales if you look on the maps you'll see things like coed poeth, which probably roughly translates as sort of hot wood or or burning woods, very roughly, probably, which gives you, may may give you an indication that these woods were worked and if you came here, you would have probably seen people living in the woods with the charcoal, tinner and charcoal workers, especially in the the 19th century, would have moved in in the summer to do the charcoal production with their families.  Adam: Just living in a tent or something?  Rob: Living in on site yeah, because then you know you don't want to move products, move things twice. You know, it's it's an economic, so you bring your family in, you produce your product, and then you come out with it at the end of the season so it's very peaceful here today. You can hear the birds. It's great for wildlife, but it would have been a managed landscape and we're trying to introduce a little bit of that. Obviously not people living in the woodlands anymore, but there's space for both here within this woodland, a bit a bit of coppicing a bit of management and reserve areas.  Adam: And I mean, I I hadn't quite noticed it while we were walking, but now we're we're standing here on this green carpet, there is an overpowering smell of garlic, it's quite extraordinary. It's very fresh, you know, sometimes when you're in the kitchen and the garlic it's it's, it's not fresh, it's pungent, but this is, you know, it's mixed with the sort of cool air, it's a really lovely smell.  Rob: It's making me hungry, actually.  Adam: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Well I was thinking whether I should pick some for dinner.  Rob: Chop some up. Pasta sauce. It's lovely with that.  Adam: Yeah, yeah, yeah, lovely. And and there's another one amongst this wild garlic, it's clock, what was it?  Rob: Yeah, this one here, it's the town hall clock or moschatel as it's known.  Adam: Town hall clock that's it. So just, what's the what's its proper name?  Rob: Moschatel. Well, that, that's it's another acronym, ah pseudonym really it's moschatel.  Adam: Moschatel.  Rob: Or town hall clock. I forget the Latin actually, to my shame.  Adam: Is moschatel the Welsh word for it, or it's not  Rob: No, it's not. It's a general general word, just a colloquial local term.  Adam: And why is it called the town hall clock?  Rob: Look you can see these four, the flowers have four sides to them, like an old town hall clock would.  Adam: Right, lovely. It's really quite, quite a rich path we're wandering down.  Rob: You see the the bluebells are out look just now, if you look up into the wood there you can see them. In Welsh they're called clychau'r gog, which is the cuckoo bell.  Adam: Wow. Cuckoo bell.  Rob: Because it comes out when the cuckoo comes. Apparently, the grant paid for like a fence, contractors to fence off that, this boundary here, stop the deer coming in from the Dean. To stop the wild pigs actually, pigs are a  Adam: You get wild pigs here?  Rob: They're a nuisance round here, yeah.  Adam: Wild pigs?  Rob: They call them, they're not really boar, because a boar will produce like, I don't know, maybe a litter of six, and these pigs will do 22.   Adam: Right. Blimey. And how big are they?  Rob: They look like boar.  Adam: So and boar can be quite violent, can't they, quite aggressive.  Rob: Yeah, they're sort of half breed, half pig, half boar. They're big animals, got a cute little stripey piglets, just like a boar does. But they, you know, they're exponential in their reproduction, so they're  Adam: And and they're around this wood?  Rob: They're here.  Adam: So do they cause a problem with eating or do they nibble on the new trees and stuff?  Rob: Yeah, yeah, well, they sort of rootle, I mean you want boar, because they were here originally. You want boar, like the deer, you want them in sustainable numbers, they're all sleeping now.  Adam: Do they come out at night?  Rob: They only come out at night yeah.  Adam: I'll have to return.  Rob: Yeah. I mean you'd see them if you went up to the top path up there.  Adam: We haven't done a night podcast. I think we should do some bats and.  Rob: You can do bats, if you wait, while you're waiting for the badgers to come out, you can do the bats. There's a few sites around here where you can watch them.  Adam: OK, well maybe  Rob: I'm sure there's other Trust sites where people know.  Adam: Maybe I'll come back.  Rob: One summer when I was doing my bachelor's degree, I was working in Llanelli in like a, just a café just to get some money. I was working with the local girls there, I'd been out surfing in Llangennith on the Gower the day before and I was like just telling her how the seals came in because they chased the mackerel in just beyond the surf line and I was sitting there and the water just boiled with the stench of of fish and mackerel and I looked around and two seals popped up and they were driving the mackerel into the back of the waves to hunt them. I was telling her this and she was like, what, you're telling me there's seals in the water here, in Llanelli, where? I said just in the Gower. Seals? Like seals seals, like live in water? I said there's seals there, yeah, they've always been there, we just don't value what's around us.  Adam: We don't notice it.  Rob: We don't notice because you can't see it, you don't see it, yeah.  Adam: It's interesting, isn't it, Attenborough has done a series recently on the UK and you go, you don't have to go to Africa or Latin America to see these things.  Rob: There you go. I was in West Wales last week in Aberaeron, and you can see bottlenose dolphins. Increasingly under threat there's that number of point but yeah, but they're there. You can see the seals, you can see them all around us, yeah. This is doing well.  Adam: Well, I'm going to have to leave our little trip down the Wye Valley with some rather unexpected chat about seals and bottlenose dolphins and a promise to return one dark night to meet some bats. Until next time, happy wandering.  Thank you for listening to the Woodland Trust Woodland Walks with Adam Shaw. 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Berkshire Football Stories is hosted by Rob Davies and guests this week are Tom Canning and the Maidenhead Advertiser's Josh Browne. The trio discuss some impressive crowds over the FA Cup weekend - not least at Windsor & Eton at Step 7 in the football pyramid. Also covered is a round up of the FA Cup action, Maidenhead United's solid start to the season and a look ahead to the FA Vase weekend. Questions and comments for the panel? Email podcast@footballinberkshire.co.uk Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/

Join Berkshire Football Stories host Rob Davies as this week he is joined by Robbie Stelling of the Newbury Weekly News to discuss the verdict on Bracknell Town vs Hungerford Town and a look ahead to the weekends FA Cup action. Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/

Berkshire Football Stories is back with Rob Davies at the helm, joined as ever by Abi Ticehurst and Tom Canning as they chart the waters of the Royal County's grassroots football scene. In the first 'Chat' episode of the new season, the trio look at the teams they are excited about, their concerns and amongst other things make some wild predictions for 2023/24. Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/

In the latest Baggies Broadcast summer guest episode Jonny Drury sat down with former midfielder Rob Davies. In episode four of the summer series, Davies discussed his football journey from a Mid Wales seaside town to Albion, with the Baggies forking out £50k for the Wrexham youngster. He also talked car rides with Jeremy Peace, friendships with senior players, Cyrille Regis as an agent, a failed move to Spain, advice for young professionals and life after football. This episode is sponsored by the Kettle & Toaster Man. Title Track: 'King Cyrille' by The King Dukes. (M.Griffiths) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Berkshire Football Stories returns with Rob Davies at the helm, joined by Abi Ticehurst and Tom Canning.  The team dissect the weeks football action across Berkshire including heartbreak for Bracknell Town in the Southern League play-off Final, the Combined Counties League Division One play-offs, a cup win for Ascot United Ladies and a rundown of the teams who'll be playing at a lower level next season. Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 You can also listen to the episode as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Or head here: https://footballinberkshire.co.uk/how-to-listen-to-the-berkshire-football-stories-podcast/ Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/

Join Berkshire Football Stories host Rob Davies as he charts the Royal County's footballing waters with Tom Canning and Abi Ticehurst. This week we start with two statements, one from the FA and one from the Combined Counties League on what an earth is going to happen with the end of the season. We look at who will win the CCL Division One and just when Ascot United and Bracknell Town will win their respective divisions. In part two the team cover those relegation-threatened sides and look ahead to the weekend fixtures. If you enjoyed this video please subscribe to the Football in Berkshire YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 You can listen to this episode and our entire archive on your favourite podcast app here: https://footballinberkshire.co.uk/how-to-listen-to-the-berkshire-football-stories-podcast/ You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/ KEY MOMENTS 0:00 Intro 1:00 Combined Counties League and when the season will end 15:08 Who will win the CCL 1 (*cough* Berks County) 20:00 When Ascot United will win the title 24:45 When Bracknell Town will win the Southern League title 28:40 Thames Valley Counties Women's Football League title race is wide open 32:47 Hungerford Town are fighting for survival.. 36:06 ..so are Windsor 41:15 Maidenhead United Women have just about done enough 44:19 Maidenhead United aren't safe.. yet.. 47:20 Pick of the weekend games #podcast #nonleague #berkshire

Join Berkshire Football Stories host Rob Davies as he charts the Royal County's footballing waters with Tom Canning and Abi Ticehurst. This week the team discusses Berks County topping the Combined Counties League Division One table with Lee Simpson and Ellis Woods, as well as casting an eye over Windsor's revival with Joshua Browne of the Maidenhead Advertiser. In part two we look at Georgia Graham stepping down at Caversham United and Woodley United reaching a cup final, plus.. is it disaster for Reading FC Women? You can listen to this episode and our entire archive on your favourite podcast app here: https://footballinberkshire.co.uk/how-to-listen-to-the-berkshire-football-stories-podcast/ If you enjoyed this video please subscribe to the Football in Berkshire YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/ KEY MOMENTS 0:00 Intro #podcast #nonleague #berkshire #favase

A first ever 'Reaction Podcast' as Ascot United become the third Berkshire side to reach the FA Vase Final at Wembley Stadium. The Yellas sensationally beat Corsham Town 5-4 on penalties in a tense semi-final and will face holders Newport Pagnell Town in the final on Sunday 21st May 2023. Today's pod is hosted by Tom Canning with guests Rob Davies, Abi Ticehurst and Bob Bacon as well as a cameo from Ascot's Director of Football Neil Richards. Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinberkshire Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/ KEY MOMENTS 0:00 Intro 0:44 Neil Richards reflects 11:26 Rob Davies on the game and commentating live 14:52 Bob Bacon on what happens next for the Yellas 21:24 Abi Ticehurst on the Yellas celebrations #favase #podcast #nonleague #berkshire

Join Berkshire Football Stories host Rob Davies as he charts the Royal County's footballing waters with Tom Canning and Abi Ticehurst. This week the team discusses Bracknell Town's Cup Final and title chances, some tidy results in the Combined Counties League promotion race and what's happening at the bottom of the Premier Division with Windsor and Wokingham & Emmbrook in trouble. Meanwhile there's a quick look at the #FAWSL comeback Queens Reading FC Women and of course a discussion around the FA Vase Semi Finals on Saturday. Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinbe... Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission You can also find us at www.footballinberkshire.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiberkshire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/footballinbe... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiberkshire/ KEY MOMENTS 0:00 Intro 2:06 Part 1 - Bracknell Town final and Ben Harris 12:15 Reading City, Binfield and  20:50 Windsor & Wokingham & Emmbrook 25:27 Berks County title chase and Sandhurst's fixture backlog 32:53 Reading FC Women comeback Queens 38:24 Part 2 - Ascot United in the FA Vase Semi's 45:25 County Cup Finals 48:18 Pick of the Weekend fixtures

Join Berkshire Football Stories host Rob Davies as he charts the Royal County's footballing waters with Tom Canning and Dan Walkley. This week the team cover Bracknell Town's brilliant win at Weston-super-Mare and possible title challenge, Hungerford Town's sensational win at Weymouth as well as of course plenty of FA Vase and Ascot United discussion as the Yellas sit 90 minutes from Wembley. There's also discussion around Reading FC Women, Ascot United Women and Woodley United plus arguably the tightest and most exciting promotion race for Berkshire this season - Combined Counties League Division One. Finally, we take a moment to cover the events over the weekend at Tadley Calleva that but for some timely intervention, could have had a far more tragic outcome. Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission

Join Berkshire Football Stories host Rob Davies as he charts the Royal County's footballing waters with Abi Ticehurst, Bob Bacon and special guest Robbie Stelling of Newbury Today. This week the team discusses Bucks & Berks Quarter finals as for Bracknell Town and Hungerford Town, Hungerford's improvement and Vanarama National League relegation battle, Reading FC Women in FA Cup Quarter Finals, Thatcham unbeaten since 2nd January, Maidenhead United winning 3 on the bounce, Maidenhead Women's improvement, Newbury FC flying high in Hellenic League Division Two East, Yateley United winning the Thames Valley Premier League with 100% record and the pick of next weekend's games. Watch the podcast by subscribing to our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@footballinberkshire?sub_confirmation=1 Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission

Join Berkshire Football Stories host Rob Davies as he charts the Royal County's footballing waters with Tom Canning and Bob Bacon. This week the team discusses Ascot United's FA Vase progress, FA Trophy disappointments, Woodley United have lift off with a league title, trouble at Windsor and Tadley Calleva have a massive carrot if they can beat AFC Bournemouth. Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission

Channel Islands. German Underground Hospital Guernsey Rob Davies Investigation.This episode of Paratalk I am joined by a returning guest. Paranormal investigator Rob Davies of Dead Air. A UK based YouTube paranormal investigation channel. Rod has undertaken many investigations around the UK and Europe.In this episode we discuss his most recent investigation at the WW2 German Underground Hospital in Guernsey.Dead Air YouTube channel:www.youtube.com/c/DeadAirTVDead Air Instagram: @DeadAirOfficial•The Paratalk Podcast is also available on the following platforms:Spotify, Apple Podcast, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Public Radio.•Follow Paratalk:Official Website: www.paratalkpodcast.comParatalk YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/c/ParatalkPodcastTwitter: @Paratalk1Instagram: @_parartalkpodcast_#paranormal #hauntings #ghosts #unexplained #occult #mystery #terror #paratalkpodcast #folklaw #stories #poltergeists #podcastsing #deadair #iparanormalnvestigations

Join Berkshire Football Stories host Rob Davies as he charts the Royal County's footballing waters with Abi Ticehurst and Tom Canning. This week the team discusses Reading FC Women's omnious run, the chances of Bracknell Town, Maidenhead United and Hungerford Town in the FA Trophy and possibly one of the best kits you'll see this season in the Woodley United Ladies vs Long Crendon fixture. Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ The podcast also supported by our friends at TicketPass, the ethical ticketing company that donates 50% of its booking fee to charity to empower the people that matter: event organisers and attendees. Find out more at: https://ticketpass.org/our-mission 

Join Berkshire Football Stories host Rob Davies as he charts the Royal County's footballing waters with Abi Ticehurst and Tom Canning. This week the team returns after the Christmas break with a mid-season review that looks at the promotion chasers and relegation-threatened sides across the county. Berkshire Football Stories is supported by The Curious Academy: A skills hub running a Sales Academy, Digital Skills Bootcamp and Data Analytics training in Reading. Find out more at https://www.thecuriousacademy.co.uk/ You can watch this episode on our YouTube Channel here: https://youtu.be/ddCKIQ_Sn6o

It's been a few weeks without a podcast so we tried something different and had a number of guests dial in, along with Tom Canning and Alicia Povey, the latter you'll hear plenty of interesting bits about the future of Futsal in the country. Includes guests Dan Walkley, Rob Davies, Andrew Batt and Steve Jinman. Find out more and subscribe at https://www.footballinbracknell.co.uk/how-to-listen-to-the-berkshire-football-stories-podcast/

WE'VE GONE AND DONE IT! EIGHT HOURS LATER, THE MONSANTO SEASON IS COMPLETE! This episode goes over Bayer's disastrous acquisition of Monsanto, how the antitrust division of the US government is simply set up to fail, and we have a look back on all of the hee-hees and haw-haws of the Monsanto season. After sitting in that studio for hours on end with Bluid and Amy, I think we deserve a little retrospective as a treat. I hope you're all feeling emotionally ok after this season. Drink some water. Hug your besties. I hope to see as many of you at the live show as possible this Saturday, and if not, I'll catch you in Season 4! Should be out by the end of 2022. Kissies! Follow @BlenderBluid and @HelloAmyDo LIVE SHOW TICKET LINK OCTOBER 1 PLEASE COME! PATREON LINK SOURCES: https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/1066656/download Bayer Tightens Control Over the World’s Food Supply, Carin Smaller, International Institute for Sustainable Development 2016. Bayer raises Monsanto cash takeover offer to $65bn, Rob Davies, The Guardian 2016 Justice Department approves Bayer-Monsanto merger in landmark settlement, Brian Fung and Caitlin Dewey, WP 2018 How Bayer-Monsanto Became One of the Worst Corporate Deals—in 12 Charts, Ruth Bender, WSJ Aug 2019 Bayer Investor Sues Top Officials for ‘Disastrous’ Monsanto Deal, Chris Dolmetsch, Claims Journal 2020 Seed monopolies: Who controls the world's food supply?, Charli Shield, DW 2021

This episode of Paratalk I am joined by investigator and presenter Rob of Dead Air. A UK based YouTube paranormal investigation channel. Rod has undertaken many investigations around the UK and Europe.One of Robs most unsettling investigations was Boleskine House once owned by English occultist Aleister Crowley which is located on the south-east side of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Rob recounts for us some of his most unsettling experiences. As well as his thought on the paranormal.Dead Air YouTube channel:www.youtube.com/c/DeadAirTVDead Air Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/DeadAirOfficial•The Paratalk Podcast is also available on the following platforms:Spotify, Apple Podcast, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Public Radio.•Follow Paratalk:Official Website: www.paratalkpodcast.comParatalk YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/c/ParatalkPodcastTwitter: @Paratalk1Instagram: @_parartalkpodcast_-------------------------------------------------------------#paranormal #hauntings #ghosts #unexplained #occult #mystery #terror #paratalkpodcast #folklaw #stories #poltergeists #podcastsing #deadair #iparanormalnvestigations

Mickey talks to Rob Davies, a businessman running for state senate north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rob Davies was born and raised in Philly. He graduated from St. Joseph's University with high marks and worked for 24 years at a small investment firm. To learn more visit Rob4PASenate12.com or follow him in instagram @rob4pasenate12. ► Check out Secure It Gun Storage RELATED VIDEOS: Defending the American Dream | Higher Line Podcast #176 Standing Up To the Government | Higher Line Podcast #171 What You Need to Know About Home Gun Safes | Higher Line Podcast #153   --- Music Attributions: Intro - "3rd Eye Blimp" by Otis McDonald Outro - "I Want More" by Silent Partner The Carry Trainer Higher Line Podcast is available on iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Stitcher and most importantly CarryTrainer.com.

How did Britain come to be one of the largest gambling markets in the world? Rob Davies, investigative journalist and author of Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain, talks to Nick Cohen about how technology, advertising and liberalised laws combined to target some of the most vulnerable in society, the influence of the gambling lobby in British politics, and the urgent reforms the industry needs to make. “In a world where technology was evolving rapidly, gambling regulation simply wasn't fit for purpose.” “For every person who is a gambling addict, six other people are affected by that.” “People get huge amounts of hospitality lavished on them when they can be relied on to lose thousands of pounds.” “For some people, the dopamine rush of putting their money at risk is irresistible.” “The gambling lobby has MPs in the contact book like you wouldn't believe.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Nick Cohen. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon Alexander began his career in advertising, winning the prestigious Big Creative Idea of the Year, before making a dramatic change. Driven by a deep need to understand the impact on society of 3,000 commercial messages a day, he gathered three Masters degrees, exploring consumerism and its alternatives from every angle.   In 2014, he co-founded the New Citizenship Project with Irenie Ekkeshi to bring the resulting ideas into contact with reality. Since then, they have been on a mission to figure out how to use our skills - not just to sell stuff - to Consumers, and involve people in the decisions that affect their lives as Citizens.   In this engaging conversation, Jon shares some great insights from his latest book Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us. We also explore how we can move away from being a passive consumer to being an active agent, how collective power leads to exponential results, the responsibility we have to build our own systems, and what a Citizen democracy means for the government.   A full transcript of the episode can be found on our website: boundaryless.io/podcast/jon-alexander/   Key highlights We discussed: > Defining Citizenship > The Subject and Consumer stories versus the Citizen story > How leaders of organizations can help to empower people to be Citizens > Becoming active agents of change and investing in the future   To find out more about Jon's work: > Twitter: twitter.com/jonjalex > Website: www.jonalexander.net/ > New Citizenship Project: www.newcitizenship.org.uk/ > Jon Alexander, 'Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us', 2022: www.amazon.com/Citizens-Why-Key-…ing/dp/191245484X   Other references and mentions: > Ouishare Fest: www.ouishare.net/fest > Arlie Hochschild, The Deep Stories of Our Time: onbeing.org/programs/arlie-hoch…tories-of-our-time/ > Dark Matter Labs: rethinking organizing #BeyondTheRules - with Indy Johar and Annette Dhami: boundaryless.io/podcast/dark-matter-labs/ > Gov0 in Taiwan: g0v.asia/ > Rob Davies, Phasing out Russian oil: how UK consumers can help the war effort, 2022: www.theguardian.com/environment/202…-the-war-effort > Better Reykjavik: citizens.is/portfolio_page/better_reykjavik/ > The Liège Food Belt: communitiesforfuture.org/get-inspired…elt-belgium/ > Why Blockchain should be plural: Cosmos and Inter-Blockchain Communication - with Ethan Buchman: boundaryless.io/podcast/ethan-buchman/ > Rebecca Solnit, 'A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster', 2010: www.amazon.com/Paradise-Built-He…es/dp/0143118072/   Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at boundaryless.io/resources/podcast/ Thanks for the ad-hoc music to Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: boundaryless.io/podcast-music   Recorded on 13 March 2022.

CEO of Openbet and former SG / ‘Light & Wonder' exec Jordan Levin joined us on the pod today for a look back at his career, what makes him tick as well as his plans for Openbet and his thoughts on the industry in general. In a packed news section, we wrap up the winners and losers from Cheltenham. We also discuss the fallout of Camelot's failed bid to retain the UK National Lottery License as well as their £3m+ fine for various RG and technical failings. Ontario's pending launch, and a review of ‘Jackpot' which is a new book by journalist Rob Davies on the state of the industry in the UK all get the Balagan treatment.

Another twofer, as our American cousins say; Jon and Fintan meet two guests but it's two superb guests. First they talk smack [0:00 - 9:23]. Then the brilliant Harp Edwards explains the work at Gordon Moody, where she works on the world's first ever residential treatment centre for women with gambling problems. This could be industry-changing, and it's a great listen [9:24 - 1:01:47]. And the data! Second, we have The Guardian's Rob Davies talking about his recent book, Jackpot: How Gambing Conquered Britain. It's a wide-ranging conversation with a very smart and funny man [1:01:48 - 2:18:55].

Though most acknowledge the reality of climate change, too many of us do not comprehend the science, the scale, and the urgency. The recently-released assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states, “The scale of recent changes across the climate system as a whole and the present state of many aspects of the climate system are unprecedented over many centuries to many thousands of years.” Understanding the complex issue of climate change is critical if we are to address it. Please join Dr. Robert Davies of Utah State University for an engaging presentation on the latest climate science and how it is impacting Utah and our world. Dr. Davies is a physicist and educator whose work focuses on synthesizing and communicating a broad range of earth systems science. The panel will also feature Sarah Wright who is the Executive Director of Utah Clean Energy (https://utahcleanenergy.org/), Utah's leading public interest group advancing renewable energy and energy efficiency policy in Utah and the Western Region. Dr. Rob Davies, Professor of Global Change and Critical Science Communication, Utah State University Sarah Wright, Executive Director and Founder, Utah Clean Energy

Fintan Costello and Jon Bruford talk to Jennifer Gaynor about the recovery of Las Vegas and how it's going; to Alex Barter about the status of the watch as the modern pissing contest; and to The Guardian's Rob Davies about the recent sale of William Hill's non-US estate to 888. It's a doozy.

Fintan Costello and Jon Bruford talk to Jennifer Gaynor about the recovery of Las Vegas and how it's going; to Alex Barter about the status of the watch as the modern pissing contest; and to The Guardian's Rob Davies about the recent sale of William Hill's non-US estate to 888.

Will Connors is coming for your clothes, your boots, your motorcycle, and your number seven jersey: the man known as Porridge gets lower than Lil' Jon and smashes all in front of him as Leinster march on with another win with a young team on a tough away day. Later on we take a deep dive into a hypothetical world of a CVC Capital Partners-inspired British and Irish league, as suggested by Ospreys chairman Rob Davies' mention of it this week. If this is where we're headed, what might it look like?

At a recent Climate Change Town Hall in Logan, USU physicist and climate researcher Dr. Rob Davies invited audience members to share their stories of environmental change and activism. He encouraged brainstorming possible solutions to climate change and acknowledged the power of an individual to effect change in the world, even though “often we're paralyzed, we're passive because we don't see the whole path to the finish line.”

South Africa's president Jacob Zuma is on the ropes. In recent months he's been dealt blow after blow - by the courts, by political opponents, even by erstwhile friends. Only the knee-jerk loyalty of the ANC has saved him from impeachment and disgrace. HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to South Africa's trade and industry minister Rob Davies and asks: if the president won't jump, does he need to be pushed, for the good of the country?Image: Rob Davies Minister of Trade and Industry, Credit: Michelly Rall/Getty Images