Best of Natural History Radio Episodes Episode guide
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Bone Stories : (Episode 3 of 5) the Mary Rose Archer
Ben Garrod reveals how the Archers who sank with the Mary Rose could help medical science
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Would You Eat an Alien? - Emotional Aliens
Professor Christine Nicol explores the meaty problem of eating aliens and how to choose?
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The Listeners (Series 3, Ep 2)
A whale biologist is among those who reveal there鈥檚 more to listening than hearing.
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Planet Puffin. Episode 2 The Puffins鈥� Return
Emily Knight & Becky Ripley, from Blue Planet II: The Podcast, stake out the Isle of May
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Natural Histories : Bee
Bees have been the subject of fascination and reverence since ancient times.
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Bone Stories : (Episode 2 of 5) West Runton Mammoth
The unearthed bones of a mammoth are full of clues to the evolutionary past
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Would You Eat an Alien? - Pain or No Pain
Jake the spaceman crashes on a planet and has to eat the locals. Do they feel pain?
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The Spider
Alison Steadman plays a nursery web spider in this funny tale written by Lynne Truss.
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The Listeners (Series 3, Ep1)
Professional listeners reveal how there鈥檚 far more to listening than hearing.
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Planet Puffin. Episode 1 Island Life
Emily Knight & Becky Ripley, drop anchor at Scotland鈥檚 Ilse of May as the puffins return
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Natural Histories : Sloth
Brett Westwood and Joanna Pinnock talk to those who really know and understand sloths
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Living World From the Archives - The Machair Of The Western Isles
Unique to the northwestern Atlantic seaboard of Britain, the Machair is truly remarkable
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Bone Stories : (Episode 1 of 5) The Irish Giant
Ben Garrod explores the truth about Irish Giants in the first of five stories about bones
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Yeti's Finger
High up a remote Himalayan Mountain in Nepal is a Buddhist monastery. The monks say is...
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Who's The Pest? 19 March 13 Episode 3
Ep 3 of 3. In Episode Three, Erica explores how insect technology can solve human...
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Who's The Pest? 12 March 13 - Episode 2
Ep 2 of 3. In Episode Two, Erica asks whether we should be eating more insects.
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Who's The Pest? 05 March 13 - Episode 1
Ep 1 of 3. They make up 80% of the species on earth, and at any time there are ten of...
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Welcome to Planet Puffin
Follow the fortunes of a Scottish puffin colony across this year鈥檚 breeding season.
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The story of the UK's first children's charity, The Foundling Hospital.
Caro Howell presents the extraordinary story of the UK's first children's charity.
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The Station
From a dawn solo to the thunderous roar of a midnight train, this vibrant sound 24 in...
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The Spirit Child
Paul Evans narrates a ghostly tale inspired by the true story of Alice Glaston who was...
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The Living World: Wood Mice of Wytham
In the company of Marc Brouard and Nigel Fisher, Conservator of Wytham Woods, Trai how...
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The Living World 6 May 12 Bee Flies
Joanna Pinnock joins naturalist John Walters in Devon to find out more about a bee the...
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The Living World 5 Feb 12 Dippers
Miranda Krestovnikoff visits the Brecon Beacons where she explores the watery world of...
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The Living World 30 Oct 11: Stone Curlew
Wiltshire's dry arable land is home to the stone curlew. Joanna Pinnock joins Nick as...
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The Living World 29 Jan 12 Jackdaw Roost
For this week's Living World, Joanna Pinnock heads to a site in Cambridgeshire which a...
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The Living World 29 Apr 12 Woodman's Butterfly
Sarah Pitt goes in search of the endangered pearl-bordered fritillary with the help of...
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The Living World 26 Feb 12 Winter Flies
For Living World, Miranda Krestovnikoff asks "where do flies go to in winter" and that...
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The Living World 20 Nov 11 Winter Ladybirds
As ladybirds become dormant in winter, their struggle to survive is examined.
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The Living World 20 May 12 - Brecon's Bats
The Living World visits the Usk Valley to see a population of lesser horseshoe bats an...
