Footprints

About Footprints

This podcast is designed to inspire you to get out and explore the beautiful natural landscape surrounding the city of Bath, with its hills and valleys, grasslands and woodlands. Season 1 brought a monthly flavour of the September walking festival through interviews with special guests, a recorded local walk and a 'top-tip' section with festival organiser Lucy Bartlett. Season 2 delves deep into the rich diversity of the Bathscape, its culture, heritage, landscape and people. Footprints was nominated for an ARIA (Audio and Radio Industry Awards) in 2023 in the Grassroots category and in 2023 and 2024 in the Best Local Show category! Hosted and produced by walking and podcasting enthusiast Pommy Harmar. Get in touch with us through Facebook or Twitter, visit our website: www.bathscape.co.uk or email pommyharmar@yahoo.co.uk

Publisher

Pommy Harmar

Category

history · leisure · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Mar 2021

Latest episode

26 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

54 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Nov 2025

   The Footprints Finale

   This is the final episode of Footprints as Bathscape itself draws to a close early in 2026. And so for the first time ever, the Bathscape team gathered together in the same room to mark the end of an era. I’m joined by Bathscape’s Manager Dan Merrett; Community Projects Officer and Walking Festival Organiser Lucy Bartlett and Volunteer Coordinator Emma Carlisle. We bring you clips from our favourite episodes over the 5 years and use them to draw out the breadth and the depth of the work of Bathscape. Clips in order of appearance Promoting the 2021 Bath Walking Festival Steppin Out Long Distance July 2021 (https://footprints.captivate.fm/episode/steppin-out-with-our-sistas-and-walking-long-distance) - Ruth Pitter, Steppin' Sistas participant PEOPLE AND BATHSCAPE VOLUNTEERS Visions of Bath Feb 2022 (https://footprints.captivate.fm/episode/visions-of-bath)- Andy Dinham, retired farmer Kelston Roundhill One farm through one century April 2022 (https://footprints.captivate.fm/episode/105-years-at-manor-farm-langridge) - Rachel de Fossard, ex-farmer's daughter, Manor Farm Langridge, Heile Selassie in Bath July 2023 (https://footprints.captivate.fm/episode/haile-selassie-in-bath)- Pauline Swaby-Wallace, manager BEMSCA Surfing the Generations Sep 2024 (https://footprints.captivate.fm/episode/surfing-the-generations) - Abi, Princes Trust Programme Bath College and Mary, Forget-Me-Not Dementia Club, Twerton Hedgelaying, Scything and Dry Stone Walling Aug 2024 (https://footprints.captivate.fm/episode/countryside-skills-are-coming-back) - Dave Pegler, scyther HISTORY AND HERITAGE Full Steam Ahead! July 2024 (https://footprints.captivate.fm/episode/full-steam-ahead) (https://)- Karl Baxter, Ultramarathon runner Radical Bath Oct 2023 (https://footprints.captivate.fm/episode/radical-bath)- Professor Emerita June Hannam Bath’s Industrial Past and Present July 2025 (https://footprints.captivate.fm/episode/baths-industrial-past-and-present)- Peter Dunn, ex-Stothert and Pitt employee and crane restorer Death in Paradise March 2022 (https://footprints.captivate.fm/episode/death-in-paradise)- John Payne, local author and historian Geology of Bath March 2024 (https://footprints.captivate.fm/episode/geology-of-bath) - Simon Hart, Managing Director and owner of Hartham Park Stone Mine FLORA AND FAUNA Beaver Spotting with Bevis Watts July 2022 (https://footprints.captivate.fm/episode/beaver-spotting-with-bevis-watts) - Bevis Watts, CEO Triodos Bank <a href="https://footprints.captivate.fm/episode/birding-in-bath"...

2. 

   9 Oct 2025

   Bathscape Reflections Conference

   This September, alongside our annual walking festival, Bathscape also hosted a Landscape City Conference looking at what the Bathscape Partnership has achieved and to inspire Bath's future. This is the penultimate episode of Footprints, and with the project itself drawing to a close, this episode shares a flavour of the day. The conference was opened by Councillor Oli Henman who is the Cabinet Project Lead for Climate Change with Bath and North East Somerset Council. He was followed by two keynote speakers Andrew Grant and Dan Merrett before we hear from each of the three panels. Clips from all of these are included and we also meet two Bath Spa 2nd year Architecture students Jazz and Marcus and hear their thoughts before and after the conference. Keynote speakers Andrew Grant, Director at Grant Associates, Chair Bathscape Board Dan Merrett, Bathscape Manager . Panel 1 Accessing the therapeutic landscape Julie Barnett (Chair), Professor of Health Psychology, University of Bath Lucy Bartlett, Community Projects Officer, Bathscape Zina Abdulla, PhD Researcher in Green Equity, University of Bath Panel 2 A dynamic landscape city in an uncertain climate future Alex Sherman (Chair), CEO Bath Preservation Trust, Bathscape Board Member Marion Harney, Associate Dean and Professor of Buildings and Landscape Conversation, University of Bath, Chair UNESCO World Heritage Site Advisory Board and Enhancement Fund, Bathscape Member Funda Kemal, Module Leader and Architecture Lecturer, Bath Spa University Panel 3 Land use in the setting of a landscape city Tom Boden (Chair), General Manager for the Bath Portfolio, National Trust, Bathscape Board Member Amy Coulthard, Market Development Director, EnTrade Hamish Evans, Head Farmer, Middle Ground Growers Claire Loder and Jude Rice, Co-founders of Bloomin' Whiteway Links Bathscape (https://www.bathscape.co.uk) - www.bathscape.co.uk Grant Associates (https://grant-associates.uk.com/) - grant-associates.uk.com Bath Preservation Trust (https://www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk/) - www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk University of Bath (https://www.bath.ac.uk/) - www.bath.ac.uk Bath Spa University (https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/)- www.bathspa.ac.uk Unesco World Heritage Site for Bath (https://www.bathworldheritage.org.uk/) - www.bathworldheritage.org.uk National Trust (https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/) - www.nationaltrust.org.uk EnTrade (https://www.entrade.co.uk/) - www.entrade.co.uk Middle Ground Growers (https://www.middlegroundgrowers.com/)- www.middlegroundgrowers.com Bloomin' Whiteway (https://www.bloomingwhiteway.com/)- www.bloomingwhiteway.com <a...

3. 

   1 Aug 2025

   The Landscapes of Bath's Two Universities

   This episode takes the opportunity to explore Bath’s two relatively new universities. Each of them sits in a unique landscape. The University of Bath (https://www.bath.ac.uk/), high up on Claverton Down, is a modernist 1960s campus surrounded by open skies, mature trees and sweeping views. It started life in 1966 as Bath University of Technology and was renamed the University of Bath 5 years later. It has grown from a student population of almost 1,500 in 1966 to just under 20,000 students now. Bath Spa University (https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/) is set in a former country estate with lakes, temples and a 'Capability' Brown legacy. It became a university in 2005. It has a student population of just under 25,000. Ralph Thompson is the Senior Lecturer in Zoology and Programme Leader for Wildlife Conservation at Bath Spa University and we hear about the university and grounds from him. We are also joined by one of his students Evie de Gruyther who has just finished her degree at Bath Spa University getting a first class honours in Wildlife Conservation. She completed her dissertation this year by studying the bat population on the campus. She talks about her love of bats and what it was like to study at Bath Spa. Marion Harney is Professor of Building and Landscape Conservation and Associate Dean for Education in the Faculty of Engineering and Design at the University of Bath. She is also the Chair of the Bath World Heritage Site Advisory Board. She shows us around the university campus talking about the early super-structure architecture and the landscape design which was written into the initial brief to be a permanent feature of the campus. We walked around amid the hot sun and torrential rain and we were joined by Badger the dog! Credits Music: Audionautix Produced by Pommy Harmar Links Bath Spa University (https://www.bathspa.ac.uk) - www.bathspa.ac.uk University of Bath (https://www.bath.ac.uk) - www.bath.ac.uk Bathscape (https://www.bathscape.co.uk) - www.bathscape.co.uk

Who has been a guest on Footprints

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• Peter Dunn
• Paul Fisher
• Steve George
• Mike Ashman
• Bill

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5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 29 / 100

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Quality

30

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

68

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