Chloe Dalton: Raising Hare

About this episode

Chloe Dalton discusses her experience raising a leveret during lockdown and her transition from city life to the countryside while also sharing insights about her first book.

Dalton, who has worked for over a decade as a parliamentary and Foreign Office policy advisor and speech-writer, found herself raising a leveret in lockdown. Her approach was to intervene as little as possible and allow the animal to remain wild – yet it still comes to snooze in her house, and has now raised leverets that treat Dalton’s small converted barn as their own. She spoke to Arabella about this improbable experience, about swapping the city for the country, and writing her first book – which has just been shortlisted for the Hatchards First Biography Prize. Interviewed by Arabella Friesen Edited by Magnus Rena

People in this episode

Guest: Chloe Dalton

Topics covered

• raising leverets
• wildlife
• city to country transition
• biography writing

Keywords

• Hatchards First Biography Prize
• policy advisor
• speech-writer

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Chloe Dalton's book

Books & works: the Hatchards First Biography Prize

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