Best of Natural History Radio Podcast
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Natural History Unit produces a wide range of programmes that aim to immerse a listener in the wonder, surprise and importance that nature has to offer.
Episodes to download
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Living World - Raft Spiders
Sun 22 May 2011
Presenter Paul Evans meets up with John Hughes from the Shropshire Wildlife Trust to a...
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Saving Species 2 Programme 4
Tue 17 May 2011
Brett Westwood presents. Saving Species reports from a project in Norfolk restoring an...
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Living World - Oil Beetles
Sun 15 May 2011
Devon is home to all four oil beetle species recorded in Britain. For this weeks' Paul...
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Saving Species 2 Programme 3
Tue 10 May 2011
Saving Species reports from the Congo and the future of Lowland Gorilla's and the of...
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Living World - Dymock Daffodils
Sun 8 May 2011
Paul Evans follows the Poet's Path into the heart of wild daffodil country as he in in...
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Saving Species 2 Programme 2
Tue 3 May 2011
The re-introduction of European Beavers into the British countryside continues to be a...
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Living World - Islay Birds
Sun 1 May 2011
Islay is a haven for birds. For this weeks' Living World, Michael Scott joins long for...
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Saving Species 2 Programme 1
Tue 26 Apr 2011
Saving Species is back for another year of live broadcasting about the world of...
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James And The Giant Eagle
Fri 22 Apr 2011
James Aldred encounters one of the world's most powerful birds of prey, the Harpy Eagle.
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Living World - The Brown Hare
Sun 27 Feb 2011
Lionel Kelleway meets Gill Turner, who has observed the behaviour of brown hares for...
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Living World - Ptarmigan
Sun 20 Feb 2011
Lionel Kelleway joins Cairngorm Mountain Head Ranger Nic Bullivant on the snow fields...
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Living World - Yew Trees
Sun 13 Feb 2011
Lionel Kelleway visits two very different yew trees in Scotland, including The Yew -...
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Living World - Arctic charr
Sun 6 Feb 2011
Lionel Kelleway travels to Lake Windermere in the Lake District to encounter one of a...
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Saving Species Programme 40
Tue 1 Feb 2011
Brett Westwood presents. If we accept that saving all endangered species might not be...
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Living World - First Flight
Sun 30 Jan 2011
Lionel Kelleway joins Brian Morrell from WWT Caerlaverock to witness a wildlife rarely...
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Saving Species Programme 39
Tue 25 Jan 2011
Brett Westwood presents. In this programme we have our final "Memories" piece the past...
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Saving Species Programme 38
Tue 18 Jan 2011
Brett Westwood presents. We feature the final episode in our special series about Bird...
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Saving Species Programme 37
Tue 11 Jan 2011
This week Brett Westwood meets Damon Bridge of the Great Crane Project to catch up on...
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Saving Species Programme 36
Tue 4 Jan 2011
This week Kelvin Boot presents the latest findings about goose migration, following up...
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Saving Species Programme 35
Tue 28 Dec 2010
Guest presenter Matthew Hill presents a special programme focussing on tigers.
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Saving Species Programme 34
Wed 22 Dec 2010
This week, Brett Westwood talks to Karen Partridge about the alarming situation facing...
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Saving Species Programme 33
Tue 14 Dec 2010
Brett Westwood presents. We feature a special report about Sloths from the southern of...
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Saving Species Programme 32
Tue 7 Dec 2010
Brett Westwood presents a special edition of Saving Species from the 100 Foot Washes a...
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Living World - Ravens 05 Deb 10
Sun 5 Dec 2010
The raven is both agile and majestic in flight but shrouded in mystery, superstition...
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Saving Species Programme 31
Tue 30 Nov 2010
Brett Westwood presents. We take a look at British farmland and ask how fit it is for...
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Living World - Ancient Trees
Sun 28 Nov 2010
Lionel Kelleway travels to Herefordshire to marvel at the Old Masters of the British...
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Saving Species Programme 30
Tue 23 Nov 2010
This week Brett Westwood presents a programme featuring a report from Japan about...
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Saving Species Programme 29
Tue 16 Nov 2010
Brett Westwood presents. Saving Species looks into the issues of invasive species.
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Living World - Hedgerows
Sun 14 Nov 2010
Lionel Kelleway visits hedgerow ecologist Rob Walton on a farm in Devon, where they of...
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Saving Species Programme 28
Tue 9 Nov 2010
Brett Westwood presents. We return to St Bee's Island off the Queensland coast in for...