Shared Planet: Disclosure
Monty Don explores the difficulties in keeping secrets and the effects of secrecy on rare orchids and rhinos. For the lady's slipper orchid in England, reduced to a single plant, secrecy was considere...
3 Juni 201427min
A Shell Nesting Bee
Solitary bees build their nests in some interesting places, but none more so than Osmia bicolor, a mason bee that's preferred real estate is the empty shells of snails. Emerging in spring a few weeks ...
18 Maj 201421min
Living World - Springtime in the Hazel Coppice
The ancient tradition of coppicing, the periodic cutting of trees and allowing the stumps to regrow, was once common throughout lowland Britain but has been on the wane since the late 1800's. The mosa...
11 Maj 201421min
Living World - Adders of Loch Lomond
On the eastern edge of Loch Lomond adders are preparing for another summer. Spring-time sun has coaxed them from their winter hibernacula and as the weather warms males have begun to look for potentia...
4 Maj 201421min
Living world - Mendip Voles
Chris Sperring this week joins Dr Fiona Mathews, Senior Lecturer in Mammalian Biology at Exeter University on a quest to unravel the secrets behind one of the most abundant if secretive mammals in the...
27 Apr 201421min
Nature: Bigfoot - Not a Bear
A "Nature" with a bit of a difference. Instead of looking at rare species and conservation measures, this week's programme focuses on perhaps the most elusive (if not non-existent) creature of all – B...
18 Mars 201428min
Nature: The Midland Brown Snake - Dead or Alive
The Midland Brown Snake found in the eastern United States, like many snake species migrates between winter hibernation areas and summer habitat in the Spring and Autumn. In many areas, even including...
11 Mars 201428min
Nature: James and the Giant Atlas Cedars
In August 2013, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reclassified the Atlas Cedar from 'least concern' to 'endangered species'. Drought as well as local pressures from grazing, lo...
4 Mars 201427min
