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Over the past 25 years, Lloyd and his wife Rose, pictured, have hand-reared and trained birds for many different film and television productions on location and in studios.

Lloyd's passion for birds began at a very young age and he has been lucky enough to turn it into a long career thanks to聽an instinctive, intuitive way with the birds.

"Looking after our birds is a not just our career and job, it is a lifestyle, as you have to be there for them seven days a week, but we love it.聽Because we always make sure the birds enjoy themselves, we can get the best out of them without compromising their welfare,鈥� he said.

Kathy Hinde is an audio-visual artist inspired by behaviour and phenomena in nature and the everyday. Her work grows from a partnership between nature and technology expressed through audio-visual installations and performances that combine sound, sculpture, image and light.

Drawing inspiration from the natural world, she creates work that is generative; that evolves; that can be different each time it is experienced. Kathy regularly works in collaboration with other practitioners and scientists and often actively involves the audience in the creative process.

In her work 'Piano Migrations'聽the inside of an old upright piano, is recycled into a kinetic sound sculpture and videos of birds are projected directly onto the piano to provide an ever-changing musical score. The movement of the birds trigger small machines to twitch and flutter on the piano strings with nature controlling the machines to create delicate music.

Picture: The inside of of an old upright piano adapted for

Richard is a British author and academic who has written biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism. He is the author of 聽a biography on Coleridge 鈥� and its an extract from Coleridge鈥檚 diary which he reads in the programme.

He is a Fellow of and a Fellow of the . He was professor of Biographical Studies at the University of East Anglia from 2001鈥�2007 and has honorary doctorates from the University of East London, University of Kingston and the Tavistock Institute. In 1992 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire.

is a composer who has recently incorporated聽folksong in some pieces, and birdsong into others. Landscape and the natural world has always been important stimuli in his music. Picture:聽John Batten

is an聽award-winning printmaker who features animals and birds, especially crows and starlings, in his work and attempts to reflect the social behaviour, flight dynamics and subliminal 鈥榖rushstroke鈥� patterns of birds in flight.聽His images often mirror human group dynamics, modes of communication and social interactions.

He was born in County Kildare and studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and the Dublin Institute of Technology.聽From 1989 to 1998 Sheridan lived and worked as an artist in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada聽and has spent time in the Canadian High Arctic.聽He returned to Dublin in 1999.

Matthew Taylor is a Professor in the Physics Department at Warwick University. Along with researchers at the university, he has used聽.

In a computer model of a flock, they built up a series of rules based on what each 'bird' would be able to see in front of it.聽The model showed that a flock would naturally tend to form at the tightest density that still allows the birds to see in many directions.聽The team use the term 'Goldilocks' to describe a density that is not too close together, and not too far apart.

Chris Watson is one of the world's leading recorders of wildlife and natural phenomena, Born in Sheffield, he was a founding member of the influential Sheffield-based experimental music group .

His sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television. Since then he has developed a particular and passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world.

As a freelance recordist for film, TV & radio, he specialises in natural history and documentary location sound together with track assembly and sound design in post-production.

Tony, pictured here with presenter Brett Westwood on location at Ham Wall,聽is Public Affairs Manager for the 聽South West England Region of the .聽He is also a field recordist living in South Devon and you can hear some of his recordings as the starlings erupt from the reed bed in the programme.

Find out Tony's favourite bird and all about his record label Very Quiet Records in .