my guest today is one of the uk's best known naturalists and environmental campaigners, chris packham humans capable of fundamentally changing our priorities? chris, thanks so much for inviting me to your home, but also this woodland, which i know means so much to you. yes, well, this is my ecological home, there's no question of that. i love this patch of woodland. i feel more connected to this place than anywhere else on earth. it's an environment that i grew up in, this oak hazel, a bit of ash, a bit of yew woodland. and i'm comfortable here with all the colours, the sounds, the smells. it's a wonderful place to be able to spend my time. and i've spent more of it here this spring than ever before. i was going to say, the coronavirus pandemic has affected us all. how has it actually affected your life? my mother always used to say, "you've got to find some good in some bad." and we've had terrible bad this spring and summer. but i've found good here because i've come to this place on a twice daily basis at least, and i've reconnected with nature in a way that i haven't done since my

we have to end there, but chris packham, thank you so much for being on hardtalk.s on monday again of 35 celsius, the fourth consecutive day where temperatures were above 3a celsius. this was the picture in west sussex, lots of sunshine there, but we've also already seen lots of heavy showers and thunderstorms. and tuesday brings us a similar day, hot again with the chance of those thundery downpours. we've got very warm air with us at the moment, as there is across much of central and western europe. but bubbling up in the afternoon, we are set to see those torrential downpours. in fact, we start off tuesday morning already with some really heavy showers, particularly across the northern half of the uk. a hot, humid start to the day, especially further south. there will be a good deal of sunshine in store for tuesday, but especially during the afternoon, we'll see more of those showers popping up. they could be heavy and thundery with some hail and squally winds with some of those downpours. but as is the nature with these sort of showers, they will be hit—and—mis

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