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FIRST STEPS

My first live radio interview was for Radio Derby in 1987.  I’ve never been able to go back and listen to it again!  I had to tell the audience what ‘sustainable development’ meant in a sound bite, which I did rather ineptly.  Even worse though was when I tried to explain that environmentalists had moved into the mainstream.  I said that they were no longer ‘long-haired hippies with open-toed sandwiches’ – of course I meant sandals.

Not long after this, the original Green Consumer Guide was published, and I spent a lot of time in TV and radio studios appearing breakfast TV, the Today Programme, Women’s Hour – even ITV and BBC News.   And in 1989 I presented a regular slot called Green Matters on ITV’s This Morning Programme, with Richard & Judy.

MORE RECENTLY

I haven’t done much television in the last few years – just a few fleeting appearances, such as being a judge for ITV News – Eco Heroes nominations, alongside Anita Roddick and Jeremy Leggett (Solar Century).  I’d like to do more – I have a particular yearning to appear on Question Time or the radio equivalent Any Questions.  This was compounded by a Question Time style event, I participated in at the Royal Geographic Society, alongside David Miliband, who was at the time, Minister for the Environment, and Fiona Reynolds, Director of the National Trust.

In the last few years I’ve appeared on lots of radio programmes debating green issues, including a series of interviews on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2 and the Anita Annand Show on Radio 5, as well as numerous regional programmes

RECENT RADIO

I’m often asked to appear on radio programmes debating topical environmental issues.  Here are some that I’ve done in 2007-2009.

Jeremy Vine Show  - Radio 2   Jun09

Click here to listen to the fierce debate about food waste and the merits of ‘slop bins’ or garbage pages as I prefer to call them.  I’m being challenged by a chap who didn’t impress me much with with his views on food waste, recycling and climate change. 

Regional Radio blitz  Apr09

Helping to find Britain’s greenest school children, I spent the best part of a day doing a series of regional radio programmes across the country.  I was helping Generation Green recruit members of Britain’s first green youth think tank. 

Steve Rhodes Show - BBC 3 Counties Radio  Jun09

Talking about M&S decision to start charging for carrier bags.

 The Anita Anand Show

 Steve Wright – Radio 5 Live

Somerset Sound Morning Programme

Talking about bottled water….

Woman’s Hour    2007 – 2008

At the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008 Woman’s Hour ran a series of interviews with me about greening your home.  Click on the links below if you want to listen to them.


• Recycling
• Green Fashion
• Water
• Lighting
• Laundry
• Electricity

Radio Solent  Aug08

Radio 5 Live  Jul08

Talking to Kay Adams about how to stop wasting food

Radio 5 Live  Feb08 & Nov07

Richard Bacon Show talking about bottled water and plastic bags.

Radio 5 Live  May07 & Jun07

Anita Anand Show as panellist on the the programme.  See Blog on the show.
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