SALMON PODCASTS
Every year Tidelines produces a podcast about different aspects of the Atlantic Salmon’s story. These podcast brings together art, science, history and culture learning about the challenges Salmon face due to climate change and human-caused environmental stresses. These range from conversations with local fishers who have had a relationship with Exe salmon over generations, to exchanges with genetic scientists studying migration pathways, to evolutionary tales of fish and humans, to experts working to remove weirs, to the role of culture, art and sport in environmental activism at a time of climate change and nature crisis. One of the podcasts stars live leaping salmon! In 2026 our podcast was produced by Green Runners. Tidelines are grateful for the people who have contributed their time and energy to make this podcast library.
SALMON TALK
Listen here to the original Salmon Run podcast. A range of voices sharing knowledge, wisdom and experiences of Atlantic Salmon on the Exe including an ex-net estuary fisherman, a female angler from Exmoor, a fish genetics researcher, a fisheries scientist working on improved access for fish in the Exe, a scientist with experience in tracking migrating salmon and an archaeologist and natural history curator. Contributors: Andy Chadwick, fisherman; Phil Turnbull, Mia Brynt and Adrian Dowding, Westcountry Rivers Trust; Michelle Werrett, fisher; David Solomon, fisheries researcher; Tom Cadbury, archaeology curator and Holly Morgenroth, natural history curator at Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Jamie Stevens, University of Exeter.(updated 2023, 27 minutes)
ARTS ACTIVISM: RUNNING FOR NATURE
What happens when running meets art and environmental activism? What does it means to run for ‘nature’? Listen here to Ceri Rees, renowned trail runner and founder of Wild Running in free flowing discussion with Anne-Marie Culhane and Jo Salter, artists, activists and co-founders of Salmon Run. (33 minutes, 2023) Produced by Wild Running.
SALMON RUN : GO HARD & GO HOME
For the 2026 podcast Green Runners’ Laura Briggs sits down with Anne-Marie Culhane, award-winner eco-artist; Goldman Environmental Prize winner Sarah Finch, and London 2012 Canoe Slalom Champion Etienne Stott MBE to unpack the wildly creative 43-mile relay fighting to restore the River Exe’s endangered Atlantic salmon population.
The trio reveals what it takes to defeat oil giants in the UK’s highest court, how navigating elite white-water translates to climate advocacy, and how new stories that connect us to place and other species and trading competitive race times for running “as a shoal” can turn environmental despair into community action.
A story about grassroots activism, ecological wonder, and the unforgettable power of running for something bigger than yourself. Listen on Podcast Addict, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or watch here. (42 minutes, 2026)
SALMON RUN RETURN/HUMAN-FISH BODIES
Salmon Run 2025 podcast focuses on human bodies and fish bodies (Atlantic Salmon) and how they move through and sense our shared and different world’s. Chapters include: our senses and navigation; the importance of salt; temperature in a changing climate and how we experience movement. Includes interviews with fisheries scientists, ultra runners, sports scientists and an evolutionary biologist. Featuring Devon based Jo Meek, ultra runner & physiotherapist; Anna Sturrock, Senior Lecturer & Aquatic Ecologist; Peter Betts and Lucy Smith, Marine Biologists from University of Essex; Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill, Evolutionary Biologist & Lecturer in School of Life Sciences; Henry Chung & Patrick Schoenmakers, Sports Scientists also at University of Essex and Dan Osmond, Senior Fisheries Officer at Westcountry Rivers Trust and ultra runner.(23 minutes, 2025)
SALMON LEAP!
Salmon Run co-ordinators Jo Salter & Anne-Marie Culhane invited River Radio to our favourite salmon viewing spot in Exeter along with Adrian Dowdling, fisheries officer from Westcountry Rivers Trust for a conversation about weirs, water and salmon – interspersed with the sight and sounds of leaping salmon! Listen here. Produced by Volkhardt Mueller and Paula Crutchlow for River Radio, creative collaborators with Art Work Exeter for their cultural partners programme at Exeter Custom House. (54 minutes, 2024)
