On the back of the publication of Under the Changing Skies, I was interviewed by Nicola Weir for Radio Ulster’s Countryside. The programme will be broadcast tomorrow at 2pm, but it’s already available on BBC Sounds if you want to sneak a preview.

As the blurb puts it:  And it’s BBC Northern Ireland’s Book Week and Nicola speaks to poet, writer and Queen’s University Lecturer, Mary Montague, about her contribution to a new anthology called ‘Under The Changing Skies’ – a collection of the columns written for the Guardian’s Country Diary – and she exposes the hidden world of the mallard!

You’ve only 29 days left to listen! So if you want to cut to the chase or listen on repeat, tune your ears into Nicola’s “50 Shades of Grey” intro in the first couple of mins. And then to solve that little mystery go to 46:28 and listen till after 54:00.

Thanks a million to Nicola for the opportunity to talk about the book and the joy (mallard sexual habits notwithstanding) it is to write for the Country Diary.