Adam Nicolson (18:30 BST)

Adam Nicolson, who grew up in the glorious surroundings of the National Trust Sissinghurst Castle, is an award-winning nature writer with a deep knowledge of the Scottish landscape, best known for Sea Room, his gripping memoir of his time spent on the Shiant Isles; and The Seabird's Cry recounting the current disaster afflicting the world's seabirds.

His new book Bird School was crafted from his time cocooned within a small shed amongst the trees in a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles, season after season, looking, listening and getting to know the birds to see what it might teach him.

Beautifully written and woven through with philosophy, literature, science and a sense of wonder, always conscious that this is an age in which the natural world is under siege, Bird School pulls back the curtain on seemingly ordinary birds, taking a long, careful and concerned look at our relationship with the wild.

In conversation with Patrick Laurie

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