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The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
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…
Episodes
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Election Stupid
You, the listeners, send in questions that we don’t see before we press record. We then try to have a conversation around them, explore different perspectives…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Environmental Entitlement
Many are about the environment, but plenty are not. Whatever the topic, we always try to find an environmental angle and, more importantly, come up with…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Building Green Morals
As always, we haven't seen these questions in advance. This means every answer is a thrilling mixture of expertise, improvisation and quiet panic. If a…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
The Reality of Murmurations
This is the podcast where you, the listeners, send us your questions, and we, the hosts, discuss them together. We don’t see the questions until we hit record…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Agreement Is Optional
Welcome to The People’s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast, where we receive all kinds of listener questions. Some are challenging, some are…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Why Me, Why Now?
In this podcast, you the listeners send in questions, that we do not see before recording. We then try to connect them back to the environment in some way…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Who Shapes You While You Podcast
Two new listeners send in this week’s questions, one from Wales, one from Derbyshire. We haven’t seen them before recording, and as always we’ll pull each one…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Migration Stories Reveal Our Selective Self‑Perception
Two surprise listener questions. One take. Real talk about how it all ties back to the environment, and what you can do next. Ray, is back from Sauk Centre…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Crowded Rock Reality
In these charades we call episodes, we tackle two listener questions. We never see them, or very rarely see them, before we press record, so you hear our…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Answering the Answers
Thanks very much for joining us for this episode of The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast. If we had our time again, we might choose a shorter…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Freedom Found Somewhere Inside Life’s Limitations
Welcome to The People’s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast, now apparently featuring an unexpected Yorkshire spin-off series judging by last time.Each…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Environmentalism Between Idealism and Practical Compromise
Welcome back to the podcast, episode… honestly, we’ve lost count at this point. Somewhere between ‘quite a few’ and ‘deeply concerning.’William and Stuart…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Space For Creators
As of this episode, we’ve only six listener questions left, so do send one in today. Though now we’ve mentioned it we’re braced for a tsunami of filth, or at…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Make Meditation A Mindset
In this podcast, you, the listeners, send in the questions for us to discuss. We don’t see them before we press record, and we don't prepare. We encounter them…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Adaptability Not Included Sadly
A city soundscape drifts through the open window of Stuart’s lounge as we hit record, sirens, engines, and all the usual urban visitors. We never see the…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Rethinking Rest And Dreams
A podcast built on pure curiosity. You send the questions, and we tackle them cold, no prep, no peeking. Every episode starts with a blank slate and an honest…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Endangered Languages, Questionable Lives
In this podcast, you, the listeners send in questions, two per episode, for us to conversate around and explore.We always try to bring the conversation back to…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Purity Is Impossible In Reality
You the listener send in the questions. We do not see a single one before we press record. If our off the cuff answers ruffle you, then wander elsewhere…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Walking Into Poles, Missing Every Bus
Welcome back to the People’s Countryside Environment Debate Podcast, the podcast that bravely asks, “What even counts as environmental anymore?” Ever since the…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Leaked Budgets And Leaders Losing Heads
Welcome back, dear listeners, to yet another episode of the show that refuses to evolve. William insists we’re living in a perpetual Groundhog Day loop…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Divide & Conquer
No, we don’t prepare for the questions you the listener send in, we don’t even read them before recording. Our only real prep has been the well over 600…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Time For Self Reflection
When we first started The People's Countryside Project, it was all about people working in the countryside. We made films, took photographs, wrote articles…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Aging Without Experts
Listeners send in questions we don’t see until we hit record. We’re not experts, just curious people willing to dive into topics cold, something we rarely make…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Younger Audiences, Older Questions
We’re back with Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt and William Mankelow, the latter who, to be clear, absolutely was not ready for the recording to start, but the…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Digital Tree Regulation
If you’re looking for the experts, you may be in the wrong place.This week, Stuart “The Wildman” Mabbutt and William Mankelow dive headfirst into two BIG…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Truths Don’t Exist
Thanks very much for joining us for this episode of the People’s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast. We answer listener questions that we’ve not seen…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Belief, Love, And Mortality
Welcome back to the podcast where you supply the questions, and we bravely refuse to look at them before hitting record. Truly, we like to live on the…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Exploring Conflict, Choice, Belief, and Bias
Welcome to our learning‑led discussion series, where William Mankelow, Stuart “The Wildman” Mabbutt, and you—the audience—shape the conversation together.Your…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Targeting Civility
We’re recording this episode at the very beginning of January, our first session after the New Year, and yet it does not feel new at all.In this podcast…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Aspirational Memories
Surely you have something better to do with your life, than listening to this podcast? There must be something else you could be doing, right now? Perhaps you…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Faith Faultlines
Listeners fling questions at us and we heroically read them cold on air. Preparation? Absolutely not. But after 600‑plus episodes, we’ve basically earned a PhD…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Growing Up In Digital Silence
There's a Yank invasion on the People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast, with two American listeners sending in questions for us to discuss. We’re in…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Time To Be Selfish
Thanks very much for joining us for this episode of the People’s Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast. We answer listener questions that we’ve not seen…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Leniency In Culture
You have found our first episode of 2026, well done!This is the podcast where there are no scripts, no prep, just two guys, Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt and…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
New Year’s Day Message 2026
On this New Year’s Day special from The Peoples Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast we want to say how grateful we are for your support, your voices, and…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Hope Balance
You send the questions; we discuss them, highlight the environmental insights, and share practical takeaways. John, from Charlbury, Oxfordshire, England sets…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Happy Holidays From Us
It's a Merry Christmas to you from Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt and William Mankelow, the co-hosts of The People’s Countryside Environmental Debate…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
State Power and Personal Identity
Digital IDs and homophobia. Two huge topics co-hosts Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt and William Mankelow have attempted to tackle in this episode of The People’s…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Power Politics
Our listeners send in thoughtful questions, and we dive into them without preparation or prior review. This way, our responses stay spontaneous and authentic…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Tilted Axis, Stable Lies
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
[TW] Forget Infinity, Do You Really Exist?
Trigger warning, this episode includes a discussion around a sensitive topic that you might find distressing. Listener discretion is very much…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Reflecting On The Absurdity Of Life
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Absurdity Runs The World
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Greenwashing With Extra Chlorine
Welcome back to another episode of Greenwashed & Unhinged — the podcast where we pretend to care about the planet while blindly stumbling through your…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Supporting Hardship
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Immigration Distraction
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Knowledge Drives Us, Badgers Drive Foundations
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Look at My Lunch, Ignore the Floods
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Vegetable Curries and Wealth Distribution
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Educationally Taxing
This is the People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast. Every episode we conversate around two listener questions, and where possible, spin the…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Stop & Search: Power, Process, and Perception
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
The Gown, The Town, and the TikTok Apocalypse
Alex Kauffmann has resumed his role as principal moderator of ‘The Listeners Chair’, reclaiming the central chair from which audience questions are drawn…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Mortgages And Funding
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Addiction And Idolisation
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Romance, Relatives, and Raging Reviews
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Paths, Purpose, Faith, Choice
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Are Lydon, Trump, Or Starmer Right?
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Tech Advances & Ethical Consumption
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…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Memory Maestros And Well Dressed Algorithms
We don't necessarily talk about the countryside on this podcast as much as we used to or should do, maybe. You, the listeners, now send in questions for us to…
- The People's Countryside Environmental Debate Podcast
Dodgy Software And Newtonian Sogginess
You could rewind the podcast, listen in reverse, and Stuart (co-host) would still sound like he's decoding alien transmissions. People keep saying we should be…