Interview for BBC Radio 4 “You and Yours”
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| Young Birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig in her garden Photograph taken by and copyright Chris Craig |
During the Easter holidays, I was contacted by a journalist, Jess Quayle, from the ‘You and Yours’ consumer programme from Radio 4. They were planning a feature about the number of people feeding birds in their gardens and how this had increased massively in recent years. They wanted me to answer a few questions on the topic and talk about how I feed my garden birds.
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| Young Birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig in her garden Photograph taken by and copyright Chris Craig |
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| Young Birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig in her garden Photograph taken by and copyright Chris Craig |
The only problem was that I was away skiing and then was going straight to Paris to spend a week with my grandmother in Disneyland.
Luckily, the programme wasn’t due to be aired for a couple of weeks, so after I was home, I got up at 7 am midweek to record the last bit of dawn chorus in our garden in the Chew Valley, south of Bristol. If I am ever up at 5 am for ringing or twitching, hearing the dawn chorus is a truly fantastic experience. I was too tired to actually talk then, so fitted the recording in at Chew Valley Lake after school. The only problem was that the Bristol Water gardeners were out cutting and strimming the grass, so I had to do my recordings in between the noise. I always learn a lot about being a presenter, every time I have to do anything like this so is a brilliant experience.
It was amazing to have my first interview for BBC Radio 4 aired last Friday 5th May 2017, which you can still hear on BBC IPlayer for the “You & Yours” programme in the section about the increase in people feeding the birds in their gardens. I am at 10:45 into the programme on http://bbc.in/2qeC28M with images at http://bbc.in/2qMuXts.
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| Young Birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig in her garden Photograph taken by and copyright Chris Craig |
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| Young Birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig in her garden Photograph taken by and copyright Chris Craig |
About The Author
Hi, I’m Dr. Mya-Rose Craig. I am a 19-year-old prominent British-Bangladeshi ornithologist, environmentalist, diversity activist as well as an author, speaker and broadcaster. At age 11 I started the popular blog Birdgirl, and at age 17 I became the youngest person to see half of the birds in the world.
Lyrical, poignant and insightful.’ - Margaret Atwood
This is my story; a journey defined by my love for these extraordinary creatures. Because large or small, brown, patterned or jewelled, there is something about birds that makes us, even for just moments at a time, lift our eyes away from our lives and up to the skies.
Lyrical, poignant and insightful.’ - Margaret Atwood
This is my story; a journey defined by my love for these extraordinary creatures. Because large or small, brown, patterned or jewelled, there is something about birds that makes us, even for just moments at a time, lift our eyes away from our lives and up to the skies.