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Bats at RHS Wisley
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This week Steve is in Surrey at RHS Garden Wisley with Principal Entomologist Dr Andrew Salisbury. Andrew sits down with Steve in the brand new wildlife garden outside their new laboratory building to tell us about the work the RHS do and how we can improve our gardens for wildlife including bats.
This week we also have a piece of nature writing by James Gilbert. James creates 'thumbnail' pieces and tweets them out and he's created a longer piece especially for BatChat called "Made with Echoes".
- RHS Garden Wisley website, twitter and Instagram
- Andrew Salisbury is on twitter and Instagram and his RHS profile is here
- Info on how to garden for bats can be found on our website
- James Gilbert is on twitter
- Morgan Brind who narrated Made with Echoes is on twitter and Instagram
If you have a piece of nature writing or poetry about bats that you'd like to share with us, drop us an email to [email protected] and your piece may end up on the show!
Competition Time!
Children’s authors Angela Mills and Emma Reynolds have kindly donated prizes. Angela has donated a copy of Bobby the brown long-eared bat signed by both Angela and Chris Packham and Emma has donated a copy of her newly released book Amara and the bats (see above episode!). To enter the competition to win one of these brilliant books, all you have to do is write us a review about the show and the two winners will be picked at random at the end of this series. Not all podcast apps allow you to leave reviews, so if you’re an Apple device user, leave us a review on the Apple podcasts app which is already installed on your device. If you’re an Android user, you can leave us a review on the Podcast Addict app and if you don’t listen to the show on a mobile device you can write your review on the Podchaser website. Instructions of how to leave your review in each of these places can be found here. Remember, we need to be able to contact you if you win so when you leave your review, make sure you give us your twitter or Instagram handle in the review. If you don’t use these, drop us an email to [email protected] with a copy of your review. We’re only able to post the prizes to addresses in the United Kingdom.
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