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The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast

The People"s Countryside

This podcast"s for anyone wanting to explore the big issues, stretching your thinking in relatable ways. Well known personalities, Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt and photographer William Mankelow, who aren"t experts, but have opinions, authentic views and no scripts. Join them on meandering conversations about nature, philosophy, climate, the human condition, sustainability, and social justice. Sometimes joined by guests, or discussing listener questions between themselves. Always full of fun

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00:10:40

Power Politics

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/12/14

Our listeners send in thoughtful questions, and we dive into them without preparation or prior review. This way, our responses stay spontaneous and authentic. Today’s questions come from Bradford and Port Carlisle—two communities in Northern England with rich histories and unique local perspectives.Andrew, from Bradford, England sent us this - “Are we too focused on Net Zero etc? Why don’t we drill our own oil, instead of importing and sustaining economies elsewhere? Aren’t we at risk of falling

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00:11:33

Tilted Axis, Stable Lies

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/12/07

We’re a veteran podcast, two surprise listener questions per episode, zero prep—cold takes, hot chaos.Ryszard, from Bydgoszcz, Poland offers up the first question - ”How did life evolve from nonliving matter?”Stuart feels after eons of cosmic boredom, water shows up, algae crash the party, oxygen gatecrashes, and then life takes a billion-year nap before evolution finally stumbles in. He squints at the universe and asks, “What nudged that first awkward step?”William shrugs, points to Earth’s comfy

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00:26:48

[TW] Forget Infinity, Do You Really Exist?

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/11/30

Trigger warning, this episode includes a discussion around a sensitive topic that you might find distressing. Listener discretion is very much encouraged.Criticism of the Catholic church, the concept of existence, and whether infinity is real. They are the three big topics for this episode of The People’s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast, the place where you the listener send in questions for co-hosts Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt and William Mankelow to discuss, dissect, deliberate,

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00:30:03

Reflecting On The Absurdity Of Life

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/11/23

Should we shift to electric in all motor sports? Are we too sensitive these days? These are the two big questions your co-hosts Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt and William Mankelow discuss in today’s episode of The People’s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast. On this podcast we never see the questions before we press record. They are presented to us on the spot, often challenging and always unexpected. We like to give you an ad free experience. We also like our audience to be relatively small and

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00:08:44

Absurdity Runs The World

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/11/16

We sit here bravely tackling listener questions hurled at us from every corner of the globe — completely unprepared and slightly afraid. We don’t see them until we hit record, which explains a lot. As for Grzegorz’s name, William took one look and noped out like a man dodging a spelling bee in Polish. He respects names too much to turn them into interpretive dance.Paul, from Queensland, Australia places the first question for discussion today- “Nothing is morally right or morally wrong. Right, wrong

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00:14:32

Greenwashing With Extra Chlorine

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/11/09

Welcome back to another episode of Greenwashed & Unhinged — the podcast where we pretend to care about the planet while blindly stumbling through your questions like eco-conscious toddlers in a philosophy seminar.Before we dive in, a heartfelt shoutout to our beloved listener Hannen Beith. Hannen, darling, pull your finger out and send us a question. We know you’re lurking. Contribute or be composted.Elodie, from Brittany, France sets the first question today - “Does absolute power corrupt

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00:10:49

Supporting Hardship

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/11/02

If you want the go to experts, that's not us, you've come to the wrong podcast. This is however the podcast where co-hosts Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt and William Mankelow, discuss questions sent in by you the listeners.The first of the two listener questions for today’s episode comes in the form of this epic enquiry from Bronwen, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA - “Does hardship make our species stronger?”William tentatively starts out by saying that hardship does make our species stronger.Stuart

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00:14:29

Immigration Distraction

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/10/26

This is the podcast where listeners send questions for us to conversate around, and although not always to do with the environment, we always try to bring an action back to the that in some way. We're not the go-to experts. We're the go-to guys who are willing to explore things cold, and change our minds as we go through.The first listener question comes from Unity, in Paddock Wood, Kent, England - “Do you guys feel overwhelmed by the mass migration into and across Europe? Many react when

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00:17:26

Knowledge Drives Us, Badgers Drive Foundations

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/10/19

An episode where there's no one in the Listeners Chair as Alex has returned to university to study Microsoft Paint so the remaining panel records blind. Listeners submit questions in advance; the hosts open them only when the red light goes on, responding cold and unrehearsed. The podcast welcomes teasing and detours, but the conversation always returns to the core question. This episode is candid, focused, and unsparing — real-time thinking, no script.Tracey, from Oxford, England sets William

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00:30:04

Look at My Lunch, Ignore the Floods

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/10/12

Today’s episode marks a special moment as we welcome back Alex Kauffmann to the Listeners Chair for one final time before he returns to university. Before signing off, he expressed his gratitude for being part of the podcast and acknowledged that it may be a few months before he returns.This episode also highlights an important aspect of podcasting: listener interaction. Each episode features two questions submitted by our audience. These questions vary in frequency—some listeners become regular

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00:32:00

Vegetable Curries and Wealth Distribution

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/10/05

It’s our 600th episode! I know what you’re thinking, they don’t sound jaded and tired, which could easily be the case, after so many episodes. That’s because with every episode, the tone is set by you dear listeners, who continue to send in questions for us to discuss. We've only got nine questions lined up at present, so get 'em in now and you'll be answered quite quickly, maybe even in time for Christmas, wouldn’t that be the best present you’ve ever received!?Alex Kaufman is back in

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00:35:14

Educationally Taxing

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/09/28

This is the People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast. Every episode we conversate around two listener questions, and where possible, spin the conversation around to the environment in some way, regardless of the topic covered. In today’s episode we begin with an educational question from Unity in Paddock Wood, Kent, England - “What do you think about bringing climate change into the mainstream UK curriculum in schools? 10 years ago children's favourite word was minion, now it's

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00:24:05

Stop & Search: Power, Process, and Perception

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/09/21

Alex is back in the listeners chair again today. You send in the questions, we tackle them live—always with an environmental twist and no peeking beforehand.Jess, from Bishop’s Tatchbrook, Warwickshire, England sets the initial question - “I’ve been thinking about the police Stop and Search tactics in the UK. Should we keep it? Done for the right reasons, with truthful explanations, is it wrong? It's about how it's done I think, without aggression, reasonably and respectfully. Done well it

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00:32:26

The Gown, The Town, and the TikTok Apocalypse

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/09/14

Alex Kauffmann has resumed his role as principal moderator of ‘The Listeners Chair’, reclaiming the central chair from which audience questions are drawn. These are then picked apart and reframed within environmental contexts to tease out wider significance.Lilly, from Summertown, Oxford, England sets the first question - “Should Oxford colleges open up more of their greenspaces to the wider population and tourists, or is it ok to keep them private and it is only the poor driving the move as they

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00:39:23

Mortgages And Funding

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/09/07

Ever wondered what happens when a housing ladder turns into a pyramid, a mortgage that outlives its owner, and funding applications start behaving like job adverts? Then this is the episode for you!Welcome to The People’s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast where you, the listener, send in questions for co-hosts Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt and William Mankelow to conversate around.In today’s episode we once again welcome back Alex Kauffmann to ‘The Listener’s chair. Alex has been in the

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00:33:22

Addiction And Idolisation

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/08/31

In this episode of The People’s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast, co-hosts Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt and William Mankelow are once again joined by Alex Kauffmann, in the ‘Listener’s chair,’ to explore two very different, but equally thought-provoking questions sent in by listeners. Faye from Islington, London, England, asks the first question: “We often talk about societal addictions and highlight drugs and alcohol, but isn't addiction to salaries in there too?”From Faye’s question,

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00:17:51

Romance, Relatives, and Raging Reviews

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/08/24

Welcome to the podcast that’s not really about people, and definitely not about the countryside—unless you count emotional landscapes and the occasional sheep metaphor.Since the Great Plague of Zoom Calls (aka COVID), you lot have been flinging questions at us like confetti at a wedding we weren’t invited to. We don’t read them beforehand—because where’s the fun in preparation? We hit record and hope for the best.We’ve got 18 more questions queued up, which means we’re either wildly popular or

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00:45:00

Paths, Purpose, Faith, Choice

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/08/17

We're the kind of people who'd lick a glacier just to say we’ve “explored it cold.” No matter what we're talking about—be it cheese, space travel, or ancient plumbing—we’ll somehow loop it back to the environment. And yes, between two questions, we casually teleport 11,000 miles—from croissants in Paris to kiwis in the Bay of Plenty. Our carbon footprint is basically a world tour.Margot, from Paris, France is the listener setting the first question today. “What is the significance of

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00:32:12

Are Lydon, Trump, Or Starmer Right?

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/08/10

Since COVID, this podcast has pretty much been all about the questions that you, the listener, have sent in for Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt and William Mankelow, the two co-hosts, to conversate around.In every episode, two of these listener questions are discussed, and by sheer coincidence, both questions in today’s episode, have come from the same person; Elodie in Brittany, France.The first of Elodie’s questions is as follows: “What does the ideal form of government look like, and why?”From this

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00:30:36

Tech Advances & Ethical Consumption

The People"s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast ·

2025/08/03

We cover two listener questions in today’s episode, with two guests once again in the Listener’s Chair, those being Alex Kauffmann and Suzi Darrington, who sit alongside the regular co-hosts Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt and William Mankelow.The two questions up for discussion are: “How do technological advancements alter scientific methodologies?” which was sent in by Floss in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada, and “Can ethical consumption ever exist in a capitalistic society?” which was posed by Paul in

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