Sarah Small shares her experience of touring the UK by bicycle while carrying a viola da gamba in this interview episode.
15 May 2025
Why Deutsche Bahn has made me a better person
(Has it?)
high-flier is back, and so is unfiltered rambling on the last few months of travel. Trains, planes (still no boats) - things go wrong and lessons are learned...
26 Jul 2024
Making space for nature with Igor
A conversation with production manager Igor about the need for theatre to co-exist with the natural environment.
Mixed and edited by Jonathan Higgins:
Jonathan Higgins (jphiggins.co.uk) (https://jphiggins.co.uk/)
14 Jun 2024
Green by design with Ana Inés Jabares Pita
A conversation with designer Ana Inés Jabares Pita about her work on Ethyl Smyth's The Wreckers at Glyndebourne in 2022.
Editing and mixing by Jonathan Higgins
1 Jun 2024
Flygskam
Reflections on a trip to Los Angeles, guilt, doubt and flight shame.
Edited by Jonathan Higgins
23 Nov 2023
Lighting the way with Paule Constable
Our host chats to Olivier and Tony-award winning lighting designer Paule Constable about how theatre lighting is becoming more sustainable, her advocacy work in the UK and EU including on the Theatre Green Book, and the balance of being an artist and an activist.
9 Nov 2023
Travelling en masse with Jonny Sells from Solomon's Knot
A conversation with bass-baritone Jonny Sells about the practicalities and pleasures of touring by land as an ensemble! Find out more about Solomon’s Knot here: www.solomonsknot.co.uk
27 Oct 2023
Comparing notes with Juliet Fraser
Our host chats to soprano Juliet Fraser about travels by train and boat across Europe and North America, how to start the conversation with promoters about sustainability, and what it's like to wear the other hat as a Festival director trying to make green choices.
6 Oct 2023
Making sustainable opera with Lucy Bradley
The first in a series of conversations with people from the opera, theatre and music industries about sustainable practice and creating work about the environment. Today's episode features opera and theatre director Lucy Bradley, who talks about making work with sustainability at its heart, breaking the culture of 'busy-ness', and trips to Madrid and Copenhagen. Find out more about the Theatre Green Book and 'The Promise' opera at the following links:
Theatre Green Book | (https://theatregreenbook.com/) ; The Promise | Mysite (handpickedproductions.org) (https://www.handpickedproductions.org/thepromise)
2 Aug 2023
How much carbon can you save?
A data dump to round up seven months of slow travel and ten episodes of high-flier. See you in the autumn for season 2!
20 Jul 2023
Waiting for my yellow submarine…
Stuttgart to Liverpool and back. By land. In four days.
6 Jul 2023
Last trains
An ode to last trains (or the exact opposite). Find out more about the conference I’ll be speaking at in Berlin here: https://www.field-notes.berlin/en/program
19 Jun 2023
Art, hypocrisy and climate justice with Jasmin Kent Rodgman
Our host chats to the composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman about her new interdisciplinary work 'what the dog said to the harvest'
More information here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/classical-music/what-dog-said-harvest?eventId=950206
13 Jun 2023
Penny wise, pound foolish
13 tips for better no fly travel
18 May 2023
Why not fly?
In which another Deutsche Bahn Desaster forces our host to reflect on why she stopped flying, and whether it is (psychologically) sustainable...
5 May 2023
24 hours by land
Ljubljana to Birmingham over land and under sea. For more information on the issues raised in this episode visit the following links:
https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba/migration/cubans-on-the-balkan-route-between-luck-and-tragedy/ ; https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/10/27/serbia-is-toughening-its-visa-rules-after-migration-prompts-pressure-from-the-eu ; https://www.collectiveaidngo.org/our-mission
23 Apr 2023
Which way to Belgrade?
Note to self: travel with a microphone in future.
6 Apr 2023
Kiel is not in Copenhagen
In which our host finds herself in the wrong part of north Germany through every fault of her own.
25 Mar 2023
The long journey home
A typical journey from London to Stuttgart via Paris and everywhere else Deutsche Bahn decided to abandon me on the way.
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