Hope Springs with Annabel Heseltine
In Hope Springs, a Resurgence Podcast hosted by Annabel Heseltine, we hear from people working on the frontline of the environmental crisis and explore what compels them to achieve extraordinary things for the natural world. Think of Hope Springs as a guide to recovery - and to discovering a sense of optimism and purpose, even in the midst of grave challenges. Hope Springs is an offering from The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity and global community that connects, inspires and informs positive change for people and planet.
Episodes
Galahad Clark
Galahad Clark is a cobbler by birth and trade who is on a mission to change the way we connect with the earth through a shoe inspired by the sand bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. In this episode of Hope Springs, the co-founder of Vivo Barefoot talks about what he learned from indigenous people, about his Quaker roots grounded in the Clark shoes legacy an
Roger Tempest & Paris Ackrill
Roger Tempest and Paris Ackrill, who are shortly to be married, have spent eleven years creating a truly transformative retreat centre at Broughton Sanctuary. Previously Broughton Hall, the stately with no less than 56 chimneys was home to the Roger’s recusant Catholic family for a thousand years. But now it's time for change, say the couple, who descri
Jim Murray
The observant amongst us might have noticed Jim Murray at last’s year’s 2024 March for Clean Water carrying a very large fish named Sally. Best known for roles in Primeval and The Crown, the actor, artist and activist had his life turned upside down in 2009 when he and his wife the actress Sarah Parish lost their baby daughter to a congenital heart dise
Merlin and Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Robin and his son Merlin Hanbury Tenison have dedicated their lives to rainforests and the people living amongst them, whether in South America and Borneo or on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall where they live.
Author Robin Hanbury Tennyson OBE is ‘an explorer with a conscience’ who has lead over 30 scientific expeditions and founded Survival International, camp
Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax is better known as a comedian and broadcaster with a reputation for interviewing celebrities and deviant politicians but her life changed in 2008 when she found herself in a psychiatric hospital. Today she's a mental health campaigner with a master's in “Mindfulness based cognitive therapy” from Oxford University, an OBE for her work campaignin
Andy Cato
Andy Cato is one half of the electric music duo Groove Armada, who in 2007 sold his music rights and ploughed the profits into a piece of land in the Pyrenees. His inspiration? A sobering article on the environmental consequences of food production, at the end of which it said. “If you don’t like it, don’t depend upon it.” Taking those words literally,
Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar is a global peace activist who in 1962 made an 8,000 mile pilgrimage from Gandhi’s grave in Delhi to Washington without food or money in protest against nuclear weapons. He has been inspiring change ever since as Editor and then Editor Emeritus of Resurgence, the magazine described by the Guardian as the 'spiritual and ecological flagship o
Mya-Rose Craig
Dr Mya-Rose Craig is a twenty-two-year-old British-Bangladeshi diversity activist and author better known as Bird Girl for the blog she started aged just eleven. In her travel memoir, she reveals the inspiration; how birdwatching kept her family together when her mother was struggling with an undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Aged 14, Mya-Rose founded Black
Christiana Figueres
Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres is widely recognized as the driving force behind the 2015 Paris Agreement, where 196 countries pledged to keep climate warming levels below 2°C. What is less known is that during this pivotal moment, she was grappling with deep personal trauma, including the emotional toll of a marriage breakdown. In the midst of
Ben Goldsmith
Ben Goldsmith is an author and rewilding activist who has poured his passion and resources into the land. Raised in the wilderness, nature has always been in his blood, but after the tragic death of his 15-year-old daughter Iris in a farm accident, his connection to the environment deepened.
In his poignant book God is an Octopus, he shares how he found
Hope Springs with Annabel Heseltine Trailer
Annabel Heseltine talks to people working on the frontline of the environmental crisis and explores how their own personal stories drove them on to achieve extraordinary things in the name of the natural world.
