Flowers: award-winning author, biologist and professor David George Haskell
Beatie Wolfe w/ David George Haskell – Orange Juice for the Ears
Tuesday July 07, 2026
08:00 PM to 09:30 PM
Flowers: Beatie Wolfe interviews award-winning author, biologist and professor David George Haskell about his many "invitations" to relish the sensory exuberance of the natural world and tap into deep time in the process. Listen to this show that takes you from birds as a gateway drug to recasting Flowers as our great Revolutionaries via the joy of embodied experience.
Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across space, science, art, health, film and technology by talking to leading luminaries from Nobel Laureates to punk publishers about their life’s work and musical DNA. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation, held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum and most recently exhibited her award winning imPRINTING.me exhibit at Boston's Museum of Science.
Tracklist:
First song that imprinted?A Eurasian blackbird singing inside a reverberant courtyard in Paris
First album that shaped who you are? (plus track to play)“Perfect Skin” from the record Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
The music you would send into Space?“The Edge of Time: Palaeolithic bone flutes from France & Germany” by Anna Friederike Potengowski and Georg Wieland Wagner
The song you would have at your memorial?“Les Barricades Mystérieuses” by François Couperin (played on the piano by Simone Dinnerstein from the record Undersong)
The album you would pass onto the next generation? (plus track to play)“Dialogue: Bottles And Jars” from the record Glass World by Annea Lockwood
The radio show was mastered by Dean Martin Hovey at Soundwell Studios.
David’s latest book “How Flowers Made Our World” The Story of Nature’s Revolutionaries is available in all good bookshops or penguinrandomhouse.com.
