The Podcast for nature nuts from wildlife cameraman Jack Perks. Jack interviews celebrities, artists, scientists and conservationists giving a light hearted look into their specialisms, stories and backgrounds seeing what drives people to become so utterly fascinated by the natural world.
Episodes
7 days ago
7 days ago
1hr 54 sec
This weeks guest is Matt Slater from the Cornwall Wildlife Trust as we talk about new species turning up in the south west due to warming seas.
Jul 14, 2026
Jul 14, 2026
48 min
This weeks guest is Scott McKenzie from the trent rivers trust as we talk about threats to the trent, how to restore it and bringing back lost species to it.
Jul 7, 2026
Jul 7, 2026
56 min
This weeks guest is Graeme Lyons a pan listing superstar as we talk about trying to record as many species as possible in the UK
Jun 30, 2026
Jun 30, 2026
47 min
This weeks guest is Paul Flint from the national wildlife crime unit as we talk about various wildlife crime.
Jun 23, 2026
Jun 23, 2026
51 min
This weeks guest is James Harding - Morris as we talk about his book on British Endemic species.
Jun 16, 2026
Jun 16, 2026
45 min
This weeks guest is Donny Midas a species hunter angler as talk about catch different species of fish in the UK.
Jun 9, 2026
Jun 9, 2026
47 min
This weeks guest is James Buckley a River keeper on the River Test as we talk all about river keeping!
Jun 2, 2026
Jun 2, 2026
49 min
This weeks guest is Derek Gow as we chat about the wolf in Britain, when we lost them and if they may return one day.
May 26, 2026
May 26, 2026
35 min
This weeks guest is James Lowen as we chat all things moth!
May 19, 2026
May 19, 2026
44 min
This week I speak to Frankie Hobro all about marine turtles in British waters.
May 12, 2026
May 12, 2026
50 min
This week I have Sarah Burhouse on the podcast to talk all about the Taxidermy!
May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
41 min
This week I have Jack Ashby on the podcast to talk all about the Thylacine!
Apr 28, 2026
Apr 28, 2026
49 min
This week I have Simon Cooper on the podcast as we chat about his latest book on buying a mill!
Apr 21, 2026
Apr 21, 2026
58 min
This week I have Matt Ford on the podcast as we chat about european rivers, fish and working for the IUCN.
Apr 14, 2026
Apr 14, 2026
53 min
This week I have Jeremy Wade back on the podcast as we chat about UK rivers and have a walk along the Avon.
Apr 7, 2026
Apr 7, 2026
1hr 29 min
This week I have Carl Smith from "Fish with Carl" on the podcast as we cover all kinds of topics in angling and youtube!
Mar 31, 2026
Mar 31, 2026
54 min
This week I speak to Kevin Parr all about the weird and wonderful creatures that have ended up in the UK from wallabies, scorpions and snakes all the way up to big cats!
Mar 3, 2026
Mar 3, 2026
43 min
This week I talk to Ellie Bee who rescues and rehomes snakes as we chat about why people fear them, what happens when people can't keep them anymore and much more!
Feb 3, 2026
Feb 3, 2026
40 min
I speak with Jonathan Green this week about fish parenting from the best to some of the maybe the worst fishy parents.
Jan 13, 2026
Jan 13, 2026
1hr 18 sec
This week I'm joined by Marine consultant Simon Thomas as we chat about the high numbers of octopus appearing of the south west coast of england.
Dec 16, 2025
Dec 16, 2025
1hr 3 min
This week I'm chatting to Harvey Tweats about three frogs that are about to make a return to Britain.
Oct 28, 2025
Oct 28, 2025
40 min
This week I'm chatting to David Sexton about the 50th anniversity of the reintroduction of white tailed eagles to Britain.
Sep 2, 2025
Sep 2, 2025
45 min
This week I'm looking for fossils with Eli Wait as well as chatting to Mark Everard about his work raising money for Prostate Cancer UK.
Aug 12, 2025
Aug 12, 2025
34 min
This week I'm live at Global Birdfair in Rutland as I talk to Tom Mason a professional wildlife photographer, Nikon Ambassador and Youtuber as we chat about how he got into it, how to do photography on a budget and more!
Jul 8, 2025
Jul 8, 2025
18 min
This week I'm in Estonia as I talk to jeff Tuhtan from Taltech University about how AI is being used to record fish numbers
Jun 17, 2025
Jun 17, 2025
22 min
This week I'm in Victoria, Australia as I head to Healesville Sanctuary to chat to Platypus expert Jessica Thomas all about them!
May 20, 2025
May 20, 2025
39 min
This week I've Colin Bean to talk about European Whitefish, Pollan and Vendace the UK's rarest freshwater fish!
May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025
17 min
May 6, 2025
May 6, 2025
38 min
This week I have Tom Lathan on the podcast as we chat about his latest book "Lost Wonders" In Lost Wonders Tom Lathan tells ten powerful stories of species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century.
Apr 29, 2025
Apr 29, 2025
28 min
This week I have Tim Birkhead on the podcast as we chat about the extinct Great Auk and his latest book "The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife"
Apr 22, 2025
Apr 22, 2025
32 min
This week I have Hannah Dale from Wrendale Designs on the podcast as I visit her farm in Lincolnshire to talk about what rewildling work has been done and her latest book "A Wildling Year"
Apr 15, 2025
Apr 15, 2025
51 min
This week I have Stuart Crofts on the podcast as we talk about Riverflies on the banks of the Derbyshire Derwent.
Apr 8, 2025
Apr 8, 2025
59 min
This week I have Pete Cooper on the podcast as we talk about the Native Invertebrate Recovery Centre and its role in bringing back some lost species of inverts to Britain.
Apr 1, 2025
Apr 1, 2025
42 min
This week I'm chatting to Anna Maka at the University of Nottingham about all things spiders! Busting some of the myths, finding out fascinating facts and meeting a few!
Mar 25, 2025
Mar 25, 2025
44 min
This podcast was recorded in Plymouth while I was fishing with Josh Pickett as we chat about some of the morphological fish quadries like koi, shore clingfish and bullheads as well as one of josh's obsessions the ancient bichir.
Mar 18, 2025
Mar 18, 2025
47 min
This podcast was recorded live at Brackenhurst Campus Nottingham Trent University with special guest Ross Birnie as we talk about his incredible career in wildlife filmmaking from going to David Attenborough's house to working all over the world in the TV industry.
Mar 11, 2025
Mar 11, 2025
47 min
This week I speak to Andrew Mccoll a Professor of Evolutionary Ecology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences as we chat all things stickleback!
Mar 4, 2025
Mar 4, 2025
52 min
This week I chat with Flilip Riberio about the wels catfish and issues its causing in the Iberian peninsula.
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25, 2025
35 min
This week I'm in the Cairngorms talking about atlantic salmon
Feb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
36 min
This week I'm in a pub with Will Pender as we talk about Blennies and species hunting in angling.
Field Guide Book
Feb 11, 2025
Feb 11, 2025
41 min
This week I'm chatting to Daniel Wise about British skate!
Feb 4, 2025
Feb 4, 2025
37 min
This week I speak to Shaun Leonard from the Wild Trout trust all about brown trout!
Jan 28, 2025
Jan 28, 2025
25 min
This week I speak to Andrew Davies from B.A.S.S all about european bass! https://www.ukbass.com/
Jan 21, 2025
Jan 21, 2025
33 min
This week I speak to Catue Gutmann Roberts all about the barbel!
Jan 14, 2025
Jan 14, 2025
43 min
This week I speak to LRF angler Ben Bassett about the mine field that is british goby species and how to I.D them.
Jan 7, 2025
Jan 7, 2025
37 min
New season is back! This week I visit the norfolk countryside as I speak to carl sayer about the crucian carp.
Oct 24, 2024
Oct 24, 2024
7 min
Upcoming dates to remember!
LINK TO BUY CALENDAR & PLAYING CARDS
3rd Nov - March for clean water
20th Nov - Free Screening of Britains Hidden Fishes at Grantown - on - Spey
8th/9th Feb - British Fly Fair international
26th Feb - LIVE PODCAST at NTU Brackenhurst with How Many Geece
Jul 2, 2024
Jul 2, 2024
28 min
Today I release another special episode ahead of the general election about what to ask candidates about rivers with Emma Brisdion from the Rivers Trust.
https://theriverstrust.org/about-us/news/vote-for-rivers-general-election
Jul 2, 2024
Jul 2, 2024
35 min
This week I speak with underwater photographer and Programme Officer for Shoal Georgie Bull. We have a natter about the 1000 fishes project looking to conserve and project some of the worlds rarest and least known fish.
Jun 25, 2024
Jun 25, 2024
40 min
Last year I went to Shetland and saw some incredible wildlife including searching for orca! See how I go on in this weeks episode.
Mar 19, 2024
Mar 19, 2024
37 min
This the final episode of this season I talk to paelobiologist Jack Cooper about the Megalodon!
Buy Me a Coffee
Mar 12, 2024
Mar 12, 2024
41 min
This week I have Ben Rowson on who is the senior curator of terrestrial molluscs from the National Museum of Wales to talk about everything slug related!
Mar 5, 2024
Mar 5, 2024
37 min
This week I've got guest Chantal Lyons on as we talk about her book Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar finding out if boar are dangerous, what locals think of them in the Forest of Dean and if they could make a return to other parts of Britain.
Feb 27, 2024
Feb 27, 2024
30 min
This week I'm talking about how to break into wildlife presenting, camera ops and photography!
Buy Me a Coffee
Feb 20, 2024
Feb 20, 2024
33 min
This week I speak to Rob Collins from The Rivers Trust about the subject of forever chemicals in rivers, what they are, what we can do about them and how they got there.