‘Cate Blanchett looks stylish in a bee-suit’: Martha Kearney on her wild new interview series

Martha Kearney, seen here at Redgrave and Lopham Fen, will host a new Radio 4 series called This Natural Life. Photograph: Joshua Bright/The Guardian

As a presenter of the Today programme and Newsnight’s political editor, Martha Kearney spent decades seeking “gotcha” moments in hard-hitting interviews. Now the broadcaster is unearthing rather different revelations for her new Radio 4 interview series.

Here comes Hollywood star Cate Blanchett rocking a beekeeper suit, the wildlife presenter Hamza Yassin explaining how he learned English as a small boy from David Attenborough, the actor Martin Clunes losing a blind dog and the naturalist Richard Mabey driving an electric boat and being blessed by a bittern.