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Taking you into the field to discover the world of bat conservation. BatChat is for anyone who loves bats or has an interest in the conservation of these fascinating mammals. Ecologist and Bat Conservation Trust Trustee Steve Roe takes you on-location, talking to the experts as well as local heroes to bring you the latest from the world of bats. Series 6 is coming on October 31st with episodes released every other Wednesday. Bats are magical but misunderstood mammals. At the Bat Conservation ...
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Bringing Stories, Strategies and Life Lessons of inspiring Indian Expats who dared to take the leap and successfully transitioned from Employee to Entrepreneur or excelled in Corporate Career itself beyond an average 9-5.Your host Ehsan Ali moved from India to Australia in 2008 with big dreams but without realising settled into a normal job. A decade later, when he tried to escape the mediocrity trap, he couldn‘t get enough help and encouragement. Finally, he launched this podcast as an ende ...
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! Get ready for an action-packed Series 6 of BatChat! This season, we're bringing you breaking news from the bat world, and that’s just the beginning. We’ll take you on a twilight bat walk, explore a buzzing night market with a twist and head deep into Somerset’s country…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S5E55 Sat in the entrance to a cave in Wales, hidden amongst temperate rainforest, Richard Crompton gives you his insight into the best way to go about getting your bat licence. Richard has been training ecologists for many years now with around 400 people coming to hi…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S5E54 This week Steve sits down with Joanne Hodgkins, nature conservation advisor for the National Trust. Sitting in the hot August sunshine at The Vyne near Basingstoke, Steve finds out how the National Trust cares not just for it's special places, but for it's specia…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S5E53 This week we join David King who created the BatBox III and BatBox Duet detectors amongst several others for four decades. David tells Steve of how it all came about and they delve into the history of bat detecting, how the Bat Detective book and CD was created a…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S5E52 Steve calls in to Canberra, Australia to chat with Dr Debbie Saunders. For over 20 years Debbie has worked as an ecologist and studied the movements of small migratory birds. This includes the Swift Parrot, one of Australia’s most endangered birds. Like many smal…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S5E51 Join Steve in early summer on the Island of Jersey as he sits down with a trio from the bat group. In this interview we hear about the historic work of the group and the sort of survey work being done at the moment on the Island. With 18 bat species recorded on t…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S5E50 On the edge of Kidderminster lies Hurcott Pool and Wood Nature Reserve. An old boathouse on the edge of the pool has been repurposed by Worcestershire Bat Group and a few minutes away lies Lea Castle Village where the street lighting has been designed with bats a…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S5E49 This week we join BCT member Mark Ferguson who has just released his latest album; Walking With Bats. What does it sound like to go bat detecting? From start to finish, this question has underpinned Walking with Bats. Mark's main goal throughout the album's devel…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S5E48 Jersey Zoo in the Channel Islands is home to 90% of the world's captive population of Livingstone's fruit bats. With an estimated 1300 in the wild, this captive breeding programme is vital to the survival of the species in a disaster event. We join Dominic Wormel…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S5E47 On the edge of the Cotswolds lies Lacock Abbey, home to Professor Quirrel's classroom and the Mirror of Erised. But whilst millions of people will recognise the Cloisters of the Abbey used in the filming of the Harry Potter franchise, a rather special spectacle c…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S5E46 Hidden in west Dorset is a nature reserve which holds a very special secret. A bat box scheme which was installed in the late 1990's is home to one of the most well-studied colonies of Bechstein's bats. Join Steve as he spends the day with the Vincent Wildlife Tr…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! BatChat Series 5 is set to kick off on Wednesday November 1st, with an exciting lineup of guests and fascinating interviews. Stay tuned for more great content and enriching conversations. Don't forget to check out the accompanying video on YouTube for more batty conten…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S4E45 - Bonus! This summer, in a major new exhibition, you can see how documenting the animal world has resulted in some of humankind’s most awe-inspiring art, science and sound recordings: Animals: Art, Science and Sound is now open at the British Library Part of the …
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S4E44 - Bonus! The landmark nature documentary series Wild Isles, presented by Sir David Attenborough is currently transmitting on Sunday's at 7pm on BBC One. The fourth episode "Freshwater" features a fabulous bat sequence, recorded in Yorkshire of the phenomenon of a…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S4E43 As series four comes to a close, Steve sits down with a titan of bat conservation. Dr Robert (Bob) Stebbings is one of the original bat workers in the UK and in this episode we hear about some of the major bat conservation work undertaken by Bob over the last hal…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S4E42 This week Steve joins Chris Damant in the grounds of Cliveden House on the banks of the River Thames. As fine dining takes place in the hotel above them, Chris and his team have set up traps to catch bats as they arrive to mate in the middle of the night. Underne…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S4E41 Tony Hutson has been shouting about bats since the 1960's and has changed the bat conservation landscape in that time. He was a founding member of the bat groups of Britain, the precursor to the Bat Conservation Trust. His survey work on the lonely greater mouse-…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S4E40 In this interview recorded right at the end of August 2022, Steve is sat in a Norfolk woodland with Dr Charlotte Packman. We learn what potential impacts a new road in the area might have on the local bat populations and as Lotty explains it could have a signific…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S4E39 Rodrigo Medellín is Mexico's very own 'Bat Man'. Since he first kept vampire bats in his bathroom as a child, Rodrigo has dedicated his life to saving them. On the evening of the 2022 UK National Bat Conference, Steve sits down with Rodrigo and asks him what it f…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S4E38 We return to London's Natural History Museum. This time however, we're in the bowels of the Diptera collection with flygirl herself, Dr Erica McAlister. If you think you recognise that name it's because Erica has graced the airwaves several times before including…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S4E37 Haddon Hall, the private residence of Lord and Lady Edward Manners, is set in the Peak District in the valley of the River Wye. With nine hundred years of history, it is one of the oldest houses in the country and moreover one of the only houses in England to hav…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S4E36 You join us in a secret location this week. Back in 2019, Scotty Dodd from the Sussex Bat Group made the most significant discovery in the history of the bat group...the first maternity roost of greater horseshoe bats in Sussex for one hundred years. Truly the fi…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S4E35 We're back with a brand new series! This week Steve joins a volunteer roost visitor, Chris Smith from Staffordshire Bat Group, on a roost visit requested by the Bat Conservation Trust. Chris discusses the value of the free service, how he got into volunteering fo…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! BatChat is returning on 9th November 2022 with series 4 and we want to hear from you! Yes that's right; you guys, your voices, on this show. We want you to get in touch with your favourite bat experience. Maybe you discovered bats living in your house, you went on a ba…
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Despite LinkedIn being the need of the hour, this episode is unique in its own right. This week's guest is one of the early users of LinkedIn, who has not only built her career through LinkedIn but has also helped a lot of people do the same. From being an account manager to HR recruiting to becoming LinkedIn's top voice in 2021, Karen Tisdell foll…
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The less traversed path comes with unique challenges that change the way we think. The guest of this week, Jaya Vaidhyanathan, has stretched her boundaries to show that we can accomplish whatever we set our minds to. Jaya was listed in the top 10 most influential women in tech and has also been named India's most trustworthy CEO. She started her ca…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S3E34 Hidden amongst the boughs of an Oak tree, Steve & his guests look down over the Knepp Castle Rewilding Estate; former farmland which has been allowed to return to nature by the owners Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell. In this episode, as the sun sets the light tur…
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Do you want to start a side hustle? Do you want to shift from corporate to entrepreneurship? Then this episode is the answer to your questions. From finance to sales, From banking to cybersecurity, Tinesh Chhaya has experienced it all. He started his journey in finance but soon realized he needed to switch. He moved to sales, where he sold address …
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S3E33 Discover the amazing work taking place in the dead of night each year by hoards of volunteers. This episode starts with Steve joining a team of these volunteers who are counting out a brown long-eared bat roost in the Derbyshire Dales at dusk as a nearby rookery …
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Starting as a programmer, Malik Irfan has evolved into a Serial Entrepreneur and Innovation thought leader. Today, he runs a Start-up Accelerator as well as a successful IT Consulting Company. He is also the president of AIBC (Australia India Business Council – a 30+ years old non-profit organisation). There is a lot to learn from Malik’s experienc…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S3E32 Join Steve on the Welcombe Hills overlooking Stratford-upon-Avon as he sits down with the author of Bobby the brown long-eared bat, a children's book which follows the adventure of a baby brown long-eared bat who lives in the attic of a farmyard. Sitting in the a…
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We often find it difficult to pursue our passions. This week's guest Fatema Kudrati shares how a medical school graduate got into child tutoring, development, and NLP training. In 2004, her son was diagnosed with ADHD, and that's when she realized it's not a learning difficulty, it's a teaching difficulty, and all brains can learn. She then started…
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Most of us find it challenging to manage a job along with family. This week’s guest Akash Kannegulla shares how he manages a full-time job and a start-up alongwith a family. He is a perfect example of living his passion, working for a cause and perseverance. While pursuing his Phd in nano-photonics (heard of it before?), he ventured into the world …
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S3E31 This week Steve is on the Tortworth Estate in south Gloucestershire with Jim Mullholland. They're joined by a voluntary team of arborists who are assisting Jim with his 5 year project to create natural tree features for Bechstein's and barbastelle bats. By using …
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S3E30 This week Steve is in Surrey at RHS Garden Wisley with Principal Entomologist Dr Andrew Salisbury. Andrew sits down with Steve in the brand new wildlife garden outside their new laboratory building to tell us about the work the RHS do and how we can improve our g…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S3E29 This week Steve joins Martyn Cooke outside a holiday cottage in Staffordshire as they set up a matrix of bat detectors to record the sound of Brandt's bats emerging from their roost before flying into the adjacent woodland. Martyn explains why he is recording the…
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Establishing your own company can be a little intimidating at times. Shifting to a new country is often challenging. Isn't it? Naheed dealt with all of it and is now a Transformational Learning and Development Consultant and a Co-Founder of Futurwits. She started her journey way back in 2004 as a Sales Trainee Manager at Bajaj Life Insurances. And …
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Success leaves clues. It's intriguing how a Chef can become CEO of an airline. Not only that, Koustab became an authority in starting full-service airlines from scratch in the Build-Operate-Transfer model. As a hotel management graduate, Koustav started as a chef and grew rapidly into leadership positions in the hospitality industry. By a twist of …
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S3E28 This week Steve is joined in a Derbyshire churchyard by Jon Russ who is an expert on bat echolocation calls. They discuss how Jon got into studying bat calls, his latest book on the subject and his passion for Nathusius’ pipistrelle bats. Jon's latest book "Bat C…
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Are you keen to build your career around marketing? Does psychology excite you? Are you a parent dealing with a mental health issue? This episode might be the answer to all your questions. From medical school dropout to psychology graduate, From practicing marketing and digital innovation to building his own startup on parent-child psychology, Thro…
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Are you considering starting your own company?? Are you ready to have a paradigm shift in the way you perceive things? This episode has the answers to your questions. From HR graduate jobs to Analytics and Data Science Recruiter, From slacking off on science tests in school to owning an analytical firm, His journey demonstrates his passion for lear…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S3E27 This week Steve is in the Lake District National Park with Ecologist and Chair of south Cumbria Bat Group Rich Flight. Rich published the findings of a study called "Bats with Altitude" in the journal British Island Bats in 2021 and he sits down with Steve to tel…
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Are you feeling stuck in your job and unable to find a way to grow. Then this episode has got the answer you might be looking for. From being a doer to becoming a thought leader, From a data analyst to becoming CDO at a leading financial services organisation, Kshira Saagar demonstrates his passion to learn, his drive to apply, and his determinatio…
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Are you interested in building a brand on LinkedIn? Whether you are a new startup or a full-fledged business, a student or professional in any field, this podcast will help you build an impressive online presence on LinkedIn. Graduating in Computer Science to becoming a Personal Branding Strategist, From self-doubt to self-discovery, Her journey il…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S3E26 This week Steve is at Chorlton Water Park Nature Reserve in Manchester with author and illustrator Emma Reynolds. Emma's debut author-illustrator book "Amara and the Bats" was published here in the UK in July 2021 and she sits down with Steve to tell us how the b…
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Are you feeling stuck in your career? Are you planning to become an entrepreneur? Then this episode might be the answer to your questions. From living in a conservative and protective family to being the first working woman in her family, From not choosing the traditional path to owning her business, Her journey showcases her passion to accept chal…
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Do you want to switch career? Do you want to enter into management roles? Then this episode is the answer to your questions. From being a doer to entering into management roles, From being an Executive Manager to becoming an Associate Partner at IBM, Her journey showcases her passion to learn, her purpose to implement, and her determination to achi…
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Send us a Text Message with what batty adventures you’ve been up to this summer! S3E25 This week Steve is on the Norfolk coastline in the East of England visiting Jane Harris from the Norfolk barbastelle study group. Paston Great Barn dates back to 1581. It’s a huge thatched barn made of flint, brick and stone measuring 50 meters in length and abou…
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If you are struggling in finding the purpose of your life, then this episode might be the right place to tune in. From being a door to door salesman to becoming the operational manager of the company, From failing in 6 startup ideas to owing his full-fledged finance academy, His journey showcases his hunger to learn, his passion to explore, and his…
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If you are battling with self-doubt, This episode might help you to get out of that dilemma. From moving to Australia to spending almost 24 years there, From getting pregnant in the middle of the training period to becoming Head of AI and Data Science at HCL, Her journey showcases her passion for learning and her Determination to become better. Aru…
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