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 from the Archives - Mellow Fruitfulness
Sun 15 Oct 2017
Experience the wonder and surprise that nature has to offer.
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Living World from the Archives - The Late Arrivals
Sun 8 Oct 2017
Experience the wonder and surprise that nature has to offer.
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Living World from the Archives - Hamsterley Forest
Sun 1 Oct 2017
Experience the wonder and surprise that nature has to offer.
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Living World from the Archives - Waxcap Grasslands
Sun 24 Sep 2017
Experience the wonder and surprise that nature has to offer.
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Bone Stories : Ben Garrod Reveals Five Bone Stories
Sat 19 Aug 2017
Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod presents five fascinating bone stories.
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Bone Stories : (Episode 5 of 5) Man-eating Tiger
Fri 18 Aug 2017
The jaws of a man-eating tiger provide new evidence about human evolution.
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Bone Stories : (Episode 4 of 5) Dodo
Thu 17 Aug 2017
Ben Garrod reveals how the dodo might be brought back from extinction
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Bone Stories : (Episode 3 of 5) the Mary Rose Archer
Wed 16 Aug 2017
Ben Garrod reveals how the Archers who sank with the Mary Rose could help medical science
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Bone Stories : (Episode 2 of 5) West Runton Mammoth
Tue 15 Aug 2017
The unearthed bones of a mammoth are full of clues to the evolutionary past
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Bone Stories : (Episode 1 of 5) The Irish Giant
Mon 14 Aug 2017
Ben Garrod explores the truth about Irish Giants in the first of five stories about bones
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Living World from the Archives - Glow Worms
Sun 9 Jul 2017
Brett Westwood introduces Living World from the Archives - Glow Worms
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Living World from the Archives - The Shell Nesting Bee
Sun 2 Jul 2017
Brett Westwood introduces Living World from the Archives -The Shell Nesting Bee
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Living World from the Archive - The Night Island
Sun 25 Jun 2017
Brett Westwood introduces Living World from the Archive - The Night Island
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Living World from the Archives - The Adders of Loch Lomond
Sun 18 Jun 2017
Brett Westwood relives Living World from the Archives - The Adders of Loch Lomond
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Living World from the Archives - The Nest Finder of Dartmoor
Sun 11 Jun 2017
Brett Westwood introduce Living World from the Archives - The Nest Finder of Dartmoor
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The Listeners (Series 3, Ep 3)
Tue 15 Dec 2015
Dame Evelyn Glennie reveals how there’s more to listening than hearing.
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The Listeners (Series 3, Ep 2)
Tue 15 Dec 2015
A whale biologist is among those who reveal there’s more to listening than hearing.
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The Listeners (Series 3, Ep1)
Tue 15 Dec 2015
Professional listeners reveal how there’s far more to listening than hearing.
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Would You Eat an Alien? - Alien Persons
Mon 23 Nov 2015
Professor Christine Nicol explores the meaty problem of eating aliens and how to choose?
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Would You Eat an Alien? - Sociable Aliens
Mon 23 Nov 2015
Professor Christine Nicol explores the meaty problem of eating aliens and how to choose?
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Would You Eat an Alien? - Emotional Aliens
Mon 23 Nov 2015
Professor Christine Nicol explores the meaty problem of eating aliens and how to choose?
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Would You Eat an Alien? - Pain or No Pain
Mon 23 Nov 2015
Jake the spaceman crashes on a planet and has to eat the locals. Do they feel pain?
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3D Bio-Printing
Tue 7 Apr 2015
Presenter Howard Stableford investigates whether 3D printing can bring real benefit to...
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Soundstage - Dawn Chorus
Fri 27 Mar 2015
Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson introduces the sounds of a dawn chorus recorded...
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Soundstage - Glacial Melt
Thu 26 Mar 2015
The extraordinary and powerful sounds of a glacier calving are captured by wildlife in...
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Soundstage - The Wash
Wed 25 Mar 2015
Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson introduces the extraordinary sounds which the of...
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Soundstage - St James' Park
Tue 24 Mar 2015
Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson introduces the sounds of the city on Match Day a...
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Soundstage - Midnight at the oasis
Mon 23 Mar 2015
Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson narrates the first in a series of audio wild in...
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Living World - Dabbling Ducks, 1st March '15
Sun 1 Mar 2015
In winter, the UK's estuaries and wetlands play host to many species of 'dabbling,' or...
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Living World, Giant Fungus
Sun 22 Feb 2015
Chris Sperring and Michael Jordan of the Association of British Fungus Groups go in of...