Best of Natural History Radio Podcast
The 大象传媒 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 - Mendip Voles
Sun 27 Apr 2014
Chris Sperring this week joins Dr Fiona Mathews, Senior Lecturer in Mammalian Biology...
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Nature: The Midland Brown Snake - Dead or Alive
Tue 11 Mar 2014
The Midland Brown Snake found in the eastern United States, like many snake species in...
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Nature: James and the Giant Atlas Cedars
Tue 4 Mar 2014
In August 2013, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reclassified...
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Living World - Crossbills
Sun 2 Mar 2014
Crossbills are finches with large heads and bright colours: the males are red and the...
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Nature: Bewitched by Dragonflies
Tue 25 Feb 2014
In 1985, a dragonfly landed on Ruary Mackenzie Dodds. Up until this time, he had never...
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Living World - A Starling Eruption
Sun 23 Feb 2014
Each year the reedbeds of the Somerset Levels become the winter home for hundreds of...
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Nature: In search of Humpback whales
Tue 18 Feb 2014
Every year between January and April, Humpback whales from all around the North Ocean...
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Living World - Long-tailed Tits: The Winter Flock
Sun 16 Feb 2014
Seeing a flock of black and white striped, powder puff pink flanked long-tailed tits a...
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Nature: Arctic terns at 66 Degrees North
Tue 11 Feb 2014
In the second of three programmes recorded in Iceland, wildlife sound recordist Chris...
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Living World - Lepidopteran Winter
Sun 9 Feb 2014
Each year Britain's butterflies and moths attempt to make it through the cold, dark...
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Nature: Islands of Ice and Fire
Tue 4 Feb 2014
In the first of new series of NATURE, we join wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson in...
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Living World - Grey Seals of Blakeney
Sun 2 Feb 2014
A small group of female grey seals first chose the naturally managed sand spit Point,...
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Shared Planet - 28 Jan 14 - Ocean Governance
Tue 28 Jan 2014
In today's Shared Planet we ask who is responsible for the life in the ocean? a field...
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Shared Planet - 21 Jan 14 - Medicinal Planet
Tue 21 Jan 2014
Many commercially available medicines today can trace their origins to compounds found...
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Shared Planet - 14 Jan 14 - Community Protection
Tue 14 Jan 2014
Worldwide, with an increasing human population using more and more natural resources,...
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Shared Planet - 07 Jan 14 - Deer Management
Tue 7 Jan 2014
It is estimated that in the United Kingdom, numbers of certain deer species in our has...
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Shared Planet - 31 Dec 13 - Do We Care Too Much About Nature?
Tue 31 Dec 2013
"Do we care too much about nature?" This is the question we will be asking in a of a...
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Shared Planet - 24 Dec 13 - Are There Too Many People For Wildlife to Thrive?
Christmas Eve 2013
"Are there too many people on earth for wildlife to thrive?" This is the question we a...
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Shared Planet - 17 Dec 13 - Noise in the Environment
Tue 17 Dec 2013
Does human produced noise remove us from the natural world? Monty Don explores this of...
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Shared Planet - 10 Dec 13 - Eco-Tourism
Tue 10 Dec 2013
Humans in the form of scientific research or for artistic endeavour have for centuries...
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Shared Planet - 03 Dec 13 - Ocean Pollutants
Tue 3 Dec 2013
Sea lions in California are developing cancer and the most likely cause is pollution...
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Shared Planet - 26 Nov 13 - Wildlife Conflict
Tue 26 Nov 2013
As human population grows there is increasing conflict between people and nature.
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Living World - Barnacle Geese of Caerlaverock
Sun 24 Nov 2013
After a long summer spent raising their young in the Arctic, barnacle geese need a in...
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Shared Planet - 19 Nov 13 - Traditional Societies
Tue 19 Nov 2013
Traditional societies and the wildlife that depends on them are disappearing.
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Living World - Winged Buffet
Sun 17 Nov 2013
Every autumn Spurn Point National Nature Reserve is inundated with small migrating...
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Shared Planet - 12 Nov 13 - Sequoia: Nowhere to go
Tue 12 Nov 2013
Climate change is causing some National parks in America to re-think their boundaries.
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Living World - Fairy Rings
Sun 10 Nov 2013
Both mysterious and fascinating fairy rings are steeped in mythology. In this episode...
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Shared Planet - 05 Nov 13 - Human Rubbish and Wildlife
Tue 5 Nov 2013
More and more rubbish is put in landfill every year. Can rubbish tips and industrial...
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Living World - The Ivy Bee
Sun 3 Nov 2013
This week on the Living World Chris Sperring accompanies entomologist Richard Comont a...
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Shared Planet - 29 Oct 13 - Restriction & Choice
Tue 29 Oct 2013
In Australia some housing estates put restrictions on what people can do to protect...
