BBC Countryfile‘s The Plodcast – Whilst taking a leisurely walk alongside the River Otter in Devon, host Fergus Collins interviews Sophie Pavelle about her recent book To Have or to Hold; Nature’s Hidden Relationships, as well as other topics of mutual natural history interest.

New Books Network: History of Science – Dr. Miranda Melcher interviews Dr. Brent Z. Kaup and Dr. Kelly F. Austin about their book The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease from University of California Press. (This podcast episode was oroginally published in June but it only came to my attention this past week.)

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