Professor Charles Foster to present BBC Radio 4 programme

Professor Charles Foster, Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, will present a new BBC Radio programme this week examining the relationship between nature writing and violence.

In Tooth and Claw will broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday, 10 January at 11.30am.

In the programme, Professor Foster, a writer, veterinarian, philosopher and barrister, travels to various nature spots to discuss the presence of violence within nature writing, seeking input from writers and poets whose work focuses on human relationships with the natural world.

Professor Foster visits Scotland to meet with conservationist and author Sir John Lister Kaye to delve into the work of naturalist Gavin Maxwell, before meeting poet and secular funeral celebrant Zetta Bear in Yorkshire.

He will also speak with poet and writer Steve Ely in Hatfield Moor and poet, writer and editor Em Strang in the Scottish south west woodlands.

The programme will be available to listen to here after broadcast.

Professor Foster is an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College; Visiting Professor at the Oxford Law Faculty; Senior Research Associate at the Uehiro Institute for Practical Ethics (within the Faculty of Philosophy); and a Research Associate at the Ethox Centre and the Helex Centre (both within the Faculty of Medicine). He is also a qualified veterinarian, practising barrister, and writer of both fiction and non-fiction.

Picture: Professor Foster during filming for In Tooth and Claw