Walking So They Can Fly

A man walked 53 miles across the English countryside dressed as a giant curlew.

Do you need to know more?

I didn’t. I heard that much I knew I wanted to talk to him. The result is this conversation with Matthew Trevelyan, a man who combined his passion for curlews with his puppet-making skills to help raise awareness about the rapid decline of this iconic bird. I hope you enjoy it.

Make sure to check out the pictures here and here, and if you’d like to see him in motion, here’s a fun little clip.

The Storspov of Umeå

This is another episode of an interview series we’re cooking up at Threshold, a revival of Threshold Conversations. It’s going out exclusively to supporters of Threshold and paid subscribers of Letters to Earthlings for now—and we’d love to get your feedback! Want more short-ish interviews like this? Have an idea for a guest, or a topic? Please, let me know in the comments.

Big thanks to my colleague Sam Moore, who did the editing and mixing on this.

Huge thanks as well to Ma…