Midweek - Stephen Webster, Kenneth O Morgan, Dr Amy Dickman, Jyotsna Srikanth
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Libby Purves meets jewellery designer Stephen Webster; historian Kenneth O. Morgan; conservation biologist Dr Amy Dickman and musician Jyotsna Srikanth.
Dr Amy Dickman is a conservation biologist with a particular interest in the maintenance of threatened wildlife populations on human-dominated land and how to resolve human-wildlife conflict. She is director of Ruaha Carnivore Project (RCP), a community-based lion conservation initiative in Tanzania. A former finalist at the Tusk Conservation Awards, she has just launched Pride, an alliance of lion conservationists at Houston Zoo.
Stephen Webster MBE is a jewellery designer. He studied at Medway College of Design in Rochester, Kent, before serving his apprenticeship at Hatton Garden and establishing his business in 1989. His inspirations range from pop culture to Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and his clients include Madonna, Ozzy Osborne and Christina Aguilera. He tells his story in Gold Struck - A Life Shaped by Jewellery, published by Salma Books.
Kenneth O. Morgan is a historian, author and a member of the House of Lords. An academic for more than 40 years, he held positions at a number of universities including Swansea and Oxford before retiring as vice-chancellor at the University of Wales in 1995. In his book, Kenneth O. Morgan: My Histories, he looks back at his life to consider how a working historian went about his task at a time of sweeping historical change. Kenneth O. Morgan: My Histories is published by University of Wales Press.
Jyotsna Srikanth is a violinist from the Carnatic classical tradition. Before becoming a full-time musician she was a pathologist. She is passionate about bringing the music of Southern India to a wider audience and enjoys collaborating with musicians from a range of musical genres such as jazz, classical and world music including beatboxer Shlomo and flamenco guitarist Eduardo Niebla.
Producer: Paula McGinley.
Published on Wednesday, 25th November 2015.
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