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Jules Pretty makes regular contributions to local and national BBC and World Service radio networks (e.g. to BBC Essex, BBC Suffolk, Radio 4 Food Programme, R4 Today Programme, R4 Costing the Earth, Radio 4 Open Country).

He is occasional contributor to television documentaries and news (BBC1, BBC East, BBC South, Border TV), and occasional contributor to written news media (approx 1-2 per year) and magazines (approx 1-2 per year)

He was presenter and writer of two-part radio series “Ploughing Eden” for BBC Radio 4 (August 1999), co-writer and presenter in BBC TV Correspondent Series The Magic Bean (June 2001), and a panellist for Radio 4’s The Moral Maze (2007).

Katie Derham talks to Jules Pretty on Food Radio (listen now)

BBC Local Food Greener than Organic (full article)

BBC The Magic Bean (full article)
 

Speaking Engagements 2008

Jan 12th	National Research Council Committee on 21st C Agriculture, Irvine California LINK HERE
Jan 21st	Royal Holloway College, London
Feb 2nd	Hadleigh Naturalists Society, Suffolk
Feb 25th	Garrison Officers' Club, Colchester
March 18th	University of Essex Annual Burrows Lecture and Essex Book Festival, Colchester LINK HERE
March 20th	Ohio State University
June 6th	Essex Wildlife Trust AGM, Abbott's Hall Farm
June 27-28th	University of Otago, New Zealand
Sept 9th	Ipswich Book Festival, Suffolk
Speaking Engagements 2008
March 20th	Great Bentley Conservation Group
March 25th	House of Commons All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil (APPGOPO) meeting on 'Food Security after Peak Oil'
April 2nd - 4th	American Museum of Natural History, New York: plenary presentation
May 20th	60th Crop Protection Symposium, Ghent University, Belgium: plenary presentation
July 1st	CRASSH Conference, University of Cambridge: Memory Maps - Image, Place and Story
July 12th	Ipswich Ip-Art Literary Festival
July 15th	LBAP Natural England Conference, Cambridge
Sept 27th	Aldeburgh Food Festival
Sept 30th	Key Employers Group, Colchester
October 1st	Colne Probus Club, Colchester
October 14th	University of Wisconsin-Madison (Agroecology Program)
October 14th	Madison Committee on Foreign Relations, Wisconsin
October 16th	University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
October 28th	Future of Cocoa conference, Kumasi, Ghana
November 15th	Drumalis Environmental, Larne, Northern Ireland
December 3rd	Colchester National Farmers Union
December 16th	FWAG Conference, Ipswich
December 18th	Essex Wildlife Trust, Colchester Group