Martin Bencsik's guest appearances

Martin Bencsik

Trees A Crowd

Living Beeing

Alastair Humphreys

John Muir

Doug Allan

Mark Carwardine

GEORGE MONBIOT

Harrison Ford

Chris Watson

David Attenborough

Rob Rose

Ingrid Newkirk

Ben Hur

Mark Frith

Nick Howard

Kate Jones

Jo Elworthy

OwlTail

We talk to Dr Martin Bencsik about the wonder of bees, their sensitivities to vibration and communication through sound.  Martin’s father kept bees but the young Martin disliked beekeeping and remembers his fear of being stung!  Ironically, today much of Martin’s research work as a scientist involves studying bees and how they cooperate in the hive specifically through the use of vibration - toots and quacks from the queens.  Fascinating new research.

We talk to Dr Martin Bencsik about the wonder of bees, their sensitivities to vibration and communication through sound.  Martin’s father kept bees but the young Martin disliked beekeeping and remembers his fear of being stung!  Ironically, today much of Martin’s research work as a scientist involves studying bees and how they cooperate in the hive specifically through the use of vibration - toots and quacks from the queens.  Fascinating new research.

Good vibrations.  Martin Bencsik is discovering more about how bees on the comb communicate.

Wolfgang Buttress

Wolfgang Buttress is an award-winning artist who creates multi-sensory artworks that draw inspiration from our evolving relationship with nature, and Dr Martin Bencsik is an associate professor in the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University. Together they have become a unique creative force! Here, talking to David, they discuss their initial collaboration, HIVE. At 17 metres tall and now based at Kew Gardens, the sculpture represents the intrinsic relationship between bees, humans and our shared landscape. Their most recent collaboration, BEAM, which made its debut at Glastonbury Festival 2019, is co-produced with Greenpeace, and converts signals from a nearby bee colony and ambient sounds from the surrounding concert stages into light and sound effects to provide an ever-changing soundscape – and a truly immersive experience. If that isn’t enough, they recall when they filled Martin’s wife’s cello with bees... as one does! Why not become a "Subscription Squirrel" on our Patreon, and help support the production of this podcast? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wolfgang Buttress is an award-winning artist who creates multi-sensory artworks that draw inspiration from our evolving relationship with nature, and Dr Martin Bencsik is an associate professor in the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University. Together they have become a unique creative force! Here, talking to David, they discuss their initial collaboration, HIVE. At 17 metres tall and now based at Kew Gardens, the sculpture represents the intrinsic relationship between bees, humans and our shared landscape. Their most recent collaboration, BEAM, which made its debut at Glastonbury Festival 2019, is co-produced with Greenpeace, and converts signals from a nearby bee colony and ambient sounds from the surrounding concert stages into light and sound effects to provide an ever-changing soundscape – and a truly immersive experience. If that isn’t enough, they recall when they filled Martin’s wife’s cello with bees... as one does! <a href="https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/4241294" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Why not become a "Subscription Squirrel" on our Patreon, and help support the production of this podcast?</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Wolfgang Buttress and Dr Martin Bencsik:  Hive minds waxing lyrical