Intimate encounters and extraordinary observations of wild nature in Britain and beyond.
Radio 4,·194 episodes
Lionel Kelleway is by the river looking for sticklebacks in this programme from archives.
12 Jun 2016,·22 mins
Jessica Holmes looks for signs of sparrowhawks. Programme from the Living World archives.
05 Jun 2016,·22 mins
Lionel Kelleway is in search of dippers. Recorded in 2002.
29 May 2016,·22 mins
Natural history programme broadcasting intimate encounters with British wildlife.
22 May 2016,·22 mins
Peter France explores a nature reserve founded by a homeowner in the 1960s.
31 Jan 2016,·22 mins
Lionel Kelleway is joined by roosting rooks.
24 Jan 2016,·22 mins
Lionel Kelleway is joined by Mary Seddon in the Wye Valley looking for snails.
17 Jan 2016,·22 mins
Lionel Kelleway investigates why lapwings are disappearing from the British countryside.
10 Jan 2016,·22 mins
Lionel Kelleway heads to Kent in search of herons. Recorded in 2003.
08 Nov 2015,·22 mins
Lionel Kelleway is joined by Gary Clennan and Tony Bradshaw in Liverpool.
01 Nov 2015,·22 mins
Lionel Kelleway is joined by Brian and Sandy Coppins in Scotland.
25 Oct 2015,·22 mins
Lionel Kelleway is joined by Rob Strachan in search of water voles.
18 Oct 2015,·22 mins
Lionel Kelleway is joined by Michael Woods in search of dormice.
11 Oct 2015,·22 mins
Chris Packham relives a programme from the Living World archives recorded in 1996.
02 Aug 2015,·22 mins
Chris Packham relives programmes from the Living World archives.
26 Jul 2015,·22 mins
19 Jul 2015,·22 mins
Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World archives.
12 Jul 2015,·22 mins
Chris Packham relives a Living World programme from 2000 about swifts.
03 May 2015,·22 mins
Chris Packham relives a Living World programme from 1996 about the secretive polecat.
26 Apr 2015,·22 mins
19 Apr 2015,·22 mins
12 Apr 2015,·22 mins
Chris Sperring visits Gloucestershire to find out why ducks 'dabble'.
01 Mar 2015,·22 mins
Chris Sperring goes on the hunt for giant bracket fungus in Dommett Wood in Somerset.
22 Feb 2015,·22 mins
Trai Anfield visits Wytham Woods, where wood mice have been studied since 1943.
15 Feb 2015,·22 mins
Trai Anfield finds the wildlife on the wintry shores of Devon.
08 Feb 2015,·22 mins
Brett Westwood heads to Cambridgeshire in search of one of Britain's rarest vertebrate.
01 Feb 2015,·22 mins
When the cold descends on Iceland, whooper swans migrate south to the Scottish Highlands
23 Nov 2014,·22 mins
Spiders love drystone walls, and the Peak District has 100s of miles of limestone walls.
16 Nov 2014,·22 mins
Chris Sperring travels to the Somerset Levels in search of great crested newts.
09 Nov 2014,·22 mins
Sian Griffiths heads to the Algonquin Park in Canada to listen out for Eastern wolves.
02 Nov 2014,·22 mins
