Will Conservation Become More Mainstream? (Your Radical Questions with Chris Packham)
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Environmentalist and TV presenter Chris Packham answers your questions about wildlife conservation, consumerism and his love of punk.
Also, why does he oppose trail hunting? What support would have helped him as a child growing up with autism? And how does he make even the smallest insects interesting?
Here’s how to send us your questions for Jordan Stephens and Jamie Oliver: * WhatsApp: 0330 123 9480 * Email: radical@bbc.co.uk Amol Rajan is a presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. He is also the host of University Challenge on BBC One. Before that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor at The Independent.
Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made by Lewis Vickers with Anna Budd. Digital production was by Gabriel Purcell-Davis. Technical production was by Johnny Baker. The editor is Sam Bonham. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Before we get started with this episode, I just wanted to let you know about a last minute |
| 0:09.6 | and very, very, very exciting addition to our guest lineup, |
| 0:13.6 | because later this week, I'm going to be talking to the musician and campaigner Jordan Stevens |
| 0:19.3 | from the band Rizzle Kicks about the impact that |
| 0:22.3 | pornography is having on young men. If you want to ask him a question about that or the work he does |
| 0:28.6 | on modern masculinity, please get in touch with us with a voice note on WhatsApp. The number is |
| 0:33.6 | 03330-123-9480.0-330-123-948-0. Or you can email us on radical at |
| 0:42.9 | BBC.com. Now, here's this week's episode of Your Radical Questions with Chris Packham. |
| 0:49.9 | Hello and welcome to another edition of Your Radical Questions, where I put your questions to one of our |
| 0:55.9 | brilliant radical guests. This is your chance to engage very directly with the super smart, |
| 1:01.0 | super interesting and influential people that we have on this podcast and ask them about their |
| 1:05.8 | ideas for the future. You may know by now that we're speaking to the one and only Jamie Oliver. |
| 1:11.1 | If you've got questions for him about the health of our nation, about dyslexia, about his brilliant |
| 1:15.0 | career as a chef and TV superstar, send them in as a voice note to our WhatsApp. The number |
| 1:20.2 | is 03310-123-9480. Or you can email us on Radical at BBC.com.com. But this week, the wildlife presenter, the documentary maker, the activist, the nature |
| 1:32.3 | conservationist, the broadcast of the campaigner. |
| 1:35.3 | Chris Packham, Chris, are you ready for some questions from our listeners? |
| 1:38.5 | I am indeed. |
| 1:39.2 | 1346, Cressy, 1415, Adjincourt on my head of the game. |
| 1:44.5 | This is deep and clever. |
| 1:46.4 | No, we're not, I think I know what you're doing. |
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