The Critter Shed

Episode 39: Of Mice and (Wo)Men

Death, Sex & Money

I Was Your Father, Until I Wasn't

Peeping Tom

Brassmonkeys

To Bank On Someone

Why do stars twinkle?

Sound Design: Shepard Tone

Jerry Fish and his first job

The Almanac of Ireland

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Zoo Diaries: RUNNING WITH WOLVES

Episode 52: Carnivorous plants

We explore how and why we pray, what happens in our bodies and minds when we pray. We also ask if we will ever know if anyone is listening, and if it even matters.

Life Matters 13 PRAYER

Join me for a walking tour of Dublin with two men who see windows in a whole other light. 

Not Bill Gates

LIZARD

SALMON

Gary Branigan: The Well Hunter

Ruth Breen from Kilkenny tells us about a poem she made for oragnutans.

RTÉjr Culture and Arts for Kid and Everyone, featuring RUTH BREEN

Siún and her brother Fiachra create a Christmas card without paper, without writing, and using only wonderful sounds.

First broadcast on RTÉjr radio on 24 December, 2016
Produced by Colette Kinsella for Red Hare Media

Siún and Fiachra's audio Christmas card.

What would life be like if humans still had tails? We visit an alternate reality to find out....

Tale of Tails

EPISODE 1: The Hero's Journey

EPISODE 2: Nourished by Nature

EPISODE 4: People and Nature

EPISODE 3: To the Waters and the Wild

EPISODE 5: Serendipity

WireTap S01 Juggling On The Radio

Millionaire - Ronan Kelly, RTÉ Radio 1

A milky session in the critter shed where Colette and Collie find out how some animals nourish their young without nipples - from lactating spiders and frogs who feed their tadpoles in the treetops, to sharks whose young fight to the death in utero.

You’d be a right tit to miss this one.

The Critter Shed. A podcast with legs… and without nipples.

Produced by Red Hare Media.


Music:

Podington Bear - Curious
Podington Bear - Firefly
Podington Bear - Bell Club


Further reading:

Lactating spiders: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/spiders-nurse-young-with-milk-lactation-arachnids/

How the supercontinent Pangea was created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYD2Ee5ABYE

Shark pups and in utero competition: https://www.livescience.com/29198-shark-embryos-cannibalize-others.html

Episode 2: Nipples No Nipples

This week we visit a rescue farm to visit one of the world's most intelligent, misunderstood and mistreated animal: the pig.

We meet the enigmatic (and GIANT)boar Wilbur and his friend Tina Sunshine, who spend their days lounging in the sun when they're not opening childproof fridge locks or stable doors.

Tina Sunshine and Wilbur were rescued from dire circumstances, and we also hear what Tina's life might have been like if she hadn't been rescued. It's not pretty (put down that sausage roll now).

And if you'd throw a few bob to My Lovely Horse Rescue, you can do that here: https://www.mylovelyhorserescue.com/pages/donate

Music:
Podington: Curious, Boop, Samara

And don't forget to hit us up on our various channels with questions, queries or things you'd like us to get nerdy about.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TheCritterShedDUB/
TWITTER: @crittershedpod
EMAIL: crittershed@gmail.com

Presented by Collie Ennis and Colette Kinsella.
In conversation with Martina Kenny, Wilbur, Tina Sunshine, and other gorgeous pigs horses and goats on the My Lovely Horse Rescue Farm.

Produced by Colette Kinsella for Red Hare Media.

Episode 16: Little Miss Tina Sunshine... and Wilbur

Join us on a journey through our 10,000-year relationship with the cow. We start with the aurochs – the formidable and feared ancestor of the cows we farm today – and end with the life of modern cows in the industrialized age of farming.

Contributors: 
Vic, owner of Camus Farm in Clonakilty Co Cork
Author John Connell
Dr. Gareth Arnott, Queen's University Belfast
Peter Foynes, director of The Butter Museum, Cork
Claire Doohan, archivist in the National Folklore Collection based in UCD
Louise Nugent, archaeologist

Music:
Blue Dot Sessions: 	Picnic March; Lick Stick, Monsoon Coming, Drone Thistle, Bidous Transport, Great is the Contessa. 	
Daniel Herskedal: 	The Mistral Noir
Horslips: 	Dearg Doom


The series was funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the television license fee.
Produced by Colette Kinsella for Red Hare Media.
Production assistance by Regan Hutchins.
Artwork by Greg Dwyer.

They're in our cities and countryside; they're loud and gregarious and said to to be some of the smartest birds in the animal kingdom. Corvids – the extended crow family – are also said to be the only animals that study us. What do we really know about them, and what do they know about us?

With:
Boria Sax, author of CROW
Jamie Durrant of Birdwatch Ireland
Author and poet Adam Wyeth
Duane Dietz, zoo designer and landscape architect

Produced by Colette Kinsella for Red Hare Media.
Production assistance by Regan Hutchins.
Series artwork by Greg Dwyer.
With thanks to Tansy, Isolde and Finn for their contributions.

CROW

Episode 23: Of beetles and bunnies

Episode 18: Tallaght Wetlands Memorial

Episode 26: The Murder Rope

They're one of humankind's oldest companions, and they have influenced our culture, language and even fashion. Yet, they have also caused some of the most devastating pandemics in the history of humans.
Join us as we explore the riveting, raucous, complicated and itchy story of our relationship with the flea.


Contributors: 
Dr Maureen Williams, parasitologist, Trinity College Dublin.
Manchán Magan, travel write and broadcaster.
Jay Ryan of Pignut Productions.


Produced by Colette Kinsella for Red Hare Media.
Production assistance by Regan Hutchins.
Artwork by Greg Dwyer.
With thanks to Una for sharing her itchy story.

FLEA

Episode 30: Nesting Season

Collie finds a living fossil, and also becomes a surrogate mother to 15 feathery offspring...


Image:
Creative Commons Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Lamprey_mouth.jpg

Episode 32: Vampire fish

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