Living World - Grey Seals of Blakeney
A small group of female grey seals first chose the naturally managed sand spit Blakeney Point, on the North Norfolk coast as spot to haul out and give birth to their pups back in 2001. That year twent...
2 Feb 201421min
Shared Planet - 28 Jan 14 - Ocean Governance
In today's Shared Planet we ask who is responsible for the life in the ocean? Featuring a field report from Scotland, Monty Don explores the problems faced by life trying to compete with us for resour...
28 Jan 201427min
Shared Planet - 21 Jan 14 - Medicinal Planet
Many commercially available medicines today can trace their origins to compounds found in the natural world, yet many of those natural compounds are found in rare species, often in natural environment...
21 Jan 201427min
Shared Planet - 14 Jan 14 - Community Protection
Worldwide, with an increasing human population using more and more natural resources, it is often local people and local communities who are the first to notice when something is out of balance in the...
14 Jan 201427min
Shared Planet - 07 Jan 14 - Deer Management
It is estimated that in the United Kingdom, numbers of certain deer species in our countryside has almost tripled in the last 20 years. Deer are possibly the most likely mammal we are ever likely to s...
7 Jan 201427min
Shared Planet - 31 Dec 13 - Do We Care Too Much About Nature?
"Do we care too much about nature?" This is the question we will be asking in a special edition of Shared Planet recorded with a live audience in the Great Hall at the University of Bristol. Together ...
31 Dec 201327min
Shared Planet - 24 Dec 13 - Are There Too Many People For Wildlife to Thrive?
"Are there too many people on earth for wildlife to thrive?" This is the question we will be asking in a special edition of Shared Planet recorded with a live audience in the Great Hall of the Univers...
24 Dec 201327min
Shared Planet - 17 Dec 13 - Noise in the Environment
Does human produced noise remove us from the natural world? Monty Don explores this question through the difficulty of hearing natural sounds in the countryside.
17 Dec 201327min
