Jean McNeil's wild encounters

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Adventurer, award-winning travel writer and Director of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Jean McNeil knows a lot about the world and our ever-more threadbare connection to it. She chats to Mickey about her latest book, Latitudes: Encounters with a Changing Planet, a front-line witness account of the impact of climate change, and about her travels to and writing about remote, inhospitable places. Which started with being raised in one. And the fact Jean trained as a walking safari guide? Well, that’s (big) catnip to our Mick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The road stretches before you, but there's trouble ahead, stationary cars.
0:04.0	You're faced with the McDonald's side mission.
0:06.7	Do you, A, join the ever-growing queue, or B, take the next exit and treat yourself to a glorious Mackey's?
0:15.0	Detouring to McDonald's.
0:16.7	Start your side mission today.
0:20.2	Rated T for Teen.
0:21.5	Each year, thousands of adults lose their shred.
0:25.2	It's an epidemic simply known as shred loss,
0:27.7	but it doesn't have to be this way,
0:29.3	because rekindling your shred is as easy as playing
0:31.4	the new Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4.
0:33.9	With new parks,
0:35.7	cross-platform multiplayer, and sick new game modes,
0:39.0	we can put an end to shred loss everywhere.
0:42.4	Let the new Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and show the world that the shred's not dead.
0:46.9	Get Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4 available now.
0:50.5	Standard issue for all women.
0:53.1	Hello there and welcome to the Tuesday interview in which I chat with Gene McNeil,
0:58.4	a stone cold Wonder Woman adventurer and award-winning travel writer.
1:03.8	And her writing about nature, the land, our connections to it and why we need to listen to it more is truly beautiful, as well as eye-opening.
1:13.2	Well, you'd expect pretty decent prose from the first ever female director of creative writing at the University of East Anglia,
1:20.5	which is yet another feather in Jean's Cap.
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