Horticulture, Empire & Race: Thomas Dawodu and Ferdinand Leigh in Lagos, Jamaica and Kew, ‘Gardens and Empires’ conference organised by English Heritage and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew at British Library (June 2025)

‘The High Priest of the Vegetable World’: Amherstia nobilis in British Literature and Art, ‘Tree Cultures’ conference at Linnean Society (Feb 2024)

A Nice Cup of Tea, interviewed by Sathnam Sanghera for BBC Radio 4 series Empire of Tea (broadcast December 2023)

‘The Glory of the Gardens’: Palms and the Making of Kew Presentation for The International Palm Society (October 2023)

Invited to deliver 33rd Annual Fox-Adler Lecture at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, USA (September 2022)

Illustrated talk on Palace of Palms for Essex Book Festival (June 2022)

Illustrated talk on John Lindley and the Gardeners’ Chronicle for The Gardens Trust (May 2022)

‘Kew’s Palm House and the Making of a National Botanic Garden’, illustrated talk for The Gardens Trust (May 2022)

The ‘Glass Enclosure’: Kew’s Palm House and Colonial Botanic Gardens (March 2022) Kate gives an illustrated talk on the history of Kew and links with botanic gardens in Kolkata and Adelaide for the Commonwealth Heritage Forum

Princes of the Vegetable Kingdom: Palms and the Making of Kew (March 2021) Kate gives an illustrated talk on the Victorian culture of palms and Kew’s Palm House to the Centre of World Environmental History, University of Sussex.

Illustrated talk on Palace of Palms for Richmond Literature Festival (November 2021)

Illustrated talk on Palace of Palms for Chiswick Book Festival (September 2021)

Greenhouse Book Talk (January 2021) Kate introduces Palace of Palms to the Environmental Humanities Research Group at Stavanger University, Norway

Departures: The Company Men in India (Migration Museum Podcast, Episode 3, Jan 2021) Kate discusses an early colonial guide book, Thomas Williamson’s East India Vade-Mecum (1810), in this Migration Museum podcast

Online events for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) Ireland (November 2020), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Membership (Jan 2021)

The Pat Kenny Show (Newstalk, Dublin, September 2020) Kate interviewed by Pat Kenny

Hobson-Jobson: A Very English Enterprise (BBC Radio 4, 2012). Kate was the consultant and main contributor to the programme, which was pick of the day in The Times, The Independent and The Daily Mail, and reviewed in The Daily Telegraph, The Scotsman, The Mail on Sunday and The Tablet. 

BBC News Magazine: Hobson-Jobson: The words English owes to India, (2012)

Radio Interviews: BBC WM (West Midlands) and BBC Three Counties (Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire)

Tibet on the Banks of the Clyde, (BBC Radio 3, 2010).

Late Night Live: The Buddha of Boundless Light meets the Glaswegian (ABC: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2006). Kate was interviewed by Phillip Adams about The High Road To China.

Crossing the Black Waters (BBC Radio 4).

An Indian Affair (Takeaway Media, 2001) Channel 4 TV.