Ellie Goulding Guest Edits Today
Best of Today
BBC
4.0 • 837 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The singer and UN environment ambassador Ellie Goulding is the latest Today programme Christmas guest editor.
Ellie uses her programme to explore her twin passions of music and nature, including looking at rewilding projects
She tells Today's Martha Kearney that nature has helped her through difficult times in her life, including postnatal depression.
Ellie interviews fellow musicians Brian Eno and Chris Martin about the music industry's environmental impact.
And she goes back to her sixth form college in Hereford and answers students questions, including about whether the music industry has changed for the better since the Me Too movement began.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello and welcome to this morning's highlights from the Today program. |
| 0:09.4 | Now, you may know Ellie Golding, our guest editor, best for hits like this. |
| 0:14.3 | My hair's been in around. |
| 0:17.7 | I can't see clear no more. |
| 0:22.0 | What are you waiting for? |
| 0:28.2 | Ellie Golding has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, |
| 0:32.5 | and she's decided to use that platform to champion her love of the natural world, |
| 0:37.1 | which was first kindled when she was growing up in a village in Herefordshire. |
| 0:40.7 | As an ambassador for the UN Environment Programme, Ellie feels strongly that we need to make more space for nature in the way that we live and farm today. |
| 0:49.3 | But the term rewilding means many things to many people. It's not uncontroversial. |
| 0:55.1 | Ellie Golding and I spoke to Tony Juniper, long-time environmentalist, now chair of the government agency in Natural England. |
| 1:01.8 | And I began by asking him what he understood by the term rewilding. |
| 1:06.3 | It could mean a very broad range of ideas, which is why I prefer to talk about nature recovery, |
| 1:11.9 | which can embrace the most intensively farmed arable landscapes, |
| 1:16.8 | where you can bring pollinating insects back to encourage breeding birds |
| 1:21.6 | and do that at the same time as producing a lot of food. |
| 1:25.2 | Right through then to the more ambitious rewilding projects, |
| 1:28.2 | where human intervention is minimised in order to restore more self-willed nature. |
| 1:34.1 | And all of these things are valuable, and all of them are essential. |
| 1:37.8 | But I think if you just talk about rewilding, sometimes you give the impression that it's only that |
| 1:42.0 | and everything else doesn't quite count. |
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