Daily Dose: Nature
What's Up Docs?
BBC
4.4 • 659 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this Daily Dose, Chris and Xand return to their episode on nature with Professor Baroness Kathy Willis. Kathy had some excellent advice on how to bring more nature into our homes and lives.
Daily Doses of expert wisdom from previous episodes will be dropping each weekday throughout January (except Tuesdays). You'll find them in the What’s Up Docs? feed on BBC Sounds, alongside all the main episodes of the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.5 | Chris, it's a fine January morning. |
| 0:09.7 | There are no leaves on the trees. |
| 0:11.0 | There's a bit less nature in the middle of winter. |
| 0:12.8 | I mean, there's obviously not, |
| 0:13.7 | but it's all sort of not quite as manifest. |
| 0:16.8 | Do you feel like we should have a bit more nature in the studio, maybe? |
| 0:19.9 | Bring some flowers in, or do we feel bad about flowers in January? They've got to be flown in nature in the studio maybe? Bring some flowers in? |
| 0:21.0 | Or do we feel bad about flowers in January? They've got to be flown in. I mean, should you have some twigs, pine cones? What should we do? I've got holly trees. There's loads of green things. There are all these conifers. We've got these plastic plants. What about a, not a dead tree, but a hibernating, what do you call it, a tree with no leaves? |
| 0:44.1 | Hello, Chris and I are here, and we are kicking off this week with another daily dose. |
| 0:49.7 | These are packaged up expert takeaways from previous episodes of What's Up Docks. |
| 0:53.1 | January can be a bit overwhelming, and so they're just little episodes. |
| 0:54.2 | And if you want more, we can go to the big episode. What are we doing for today's daily dose, Chris? |
| 0:59.2 | We're looking back at a very special episode where they let us out of the studio for the day. |
| 1:04.8 | Much as we love the plastic plants in here, we went to the woods near your house with |
| 1:09.4 | Baroness Dame Professor Cathy Willis. |
| 1:14.1 | I hope I've got them in the right order. |
| 1:15.9 | That's right. |
| 1:16.4 | We looked at the trees. |
| 1:17.3 | We enjoyed the nature. |
| 1:18.5 | And in this clip, she's going to be explaining how we can bring nature into our lives more. |
| 1:25.8 | So if you can't get out into nature, how can you bring nature to you? |
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