WildKingdom and the Map of Dreams Podcast
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Episode 4: Julia Pyke
Release date:
Mar 25, 2026
Nuclear and nature collide as Clean Energy Commissioner, Julia Pyke, makes the provocative case to Hugh Somerleyton that big energy can mean big nature, and that Britain’s most controversial power project could power 7% of the UK, while restoring more land than it takes.
Julia was the Development Director and then joint Managing Director of Sizewell C from 2017 till December 2025. She spent nearly a decade making the case that major infrastructure and genuine environmental enhancement can and must go hand in hand. The biodiversity and landscape plan developed under her leadership at the Suffolk nuclear project has been cited by Tony Juniper himself as a model for what ambitions infrastructure can achieve for nature. She is currently a Clean Energy Commissioner for the Government, a non executive director of Studsvik and is setting up a Community Interest Company to be funded by clean energy companies, focusing on nature restoration and on increasing opportunities for young people in Suffolk.
