For our final episode, we’re peering into the depths of some mysterious local ponds with a hydrophone, discovering how the ghosts of wetlands past can lead us towards a more hopeful trajectory for living with water. 

With nearly all of our wetlands gone since the Roman times, we hear the story of how they disappeared so drastically, reaching back to a time when Britain was a wild, wet landscape and King Alfred hid from Vikings in the Somerset marshes. Holding onto the little that remains, we ask, what is the radical potential of wetlands today? 

Featuring: Jack Greenhalgh (Bristol University PhD), John Chamberlayne (of Hill Farm Longley) and Geoff Hilton (Chief Scientist and Head of Research, WWT). Presented by Roxy Furman. 

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Waterlands is a series brought to you by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. It’s an 18Sixty production, and the producer is Eliza Lomas.