Intimate encounters and extraordinary observations of wild nature in Britain and beyond.
Radio 4,·194 episodes
Chris Sperring is in Somerset during the last days of summer listening for nightjars.
26 Oct 2014,·20 mins
Tim Birkhead looks at the guillemots of Skomer Island that have been studied for 42 years.
17 Aug 2014,·22 mins
The green hairstreak butterfly is making a comeback in the Pentland Hills.
10 Aug 2014,·22 mins
Tom Heap meets the critically endangered rock iguana of the Caribbean.
03 Aug 2014,·22 mins
Tom Heap joins a night safari in search of the Caicos pygmy boa constrictor.
27 Jul 2014,·22 mins
Trai Anfield is in Dorset to find a bee that builds its nest in empty snail shells.
18 May 2014,·22 mins
Chris Sperring visits a hazel coppice awash with springtime flowers.
11 May 2014,·22 mins
Trai Anfield encounters adders basking on the edges of Loch Lomond.
04 May 2014,·22 mins
Chris Sperring searches for one of the most abundant mammals in the UK, the vole.
27 Apr 2014,·22 mins
Trai Anfield searches for crossbills near Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire.
02 Mar 2014,·22 mins
Chris Sperring spends a winter's day with a long-tailed-tit family.
23 Feb 2014,·22 mins
Trai Anfield witnesses the dawn eruption of starlings from the Somerset Levels.
16 Feb 2014,·22 mins
Chris Sperring goes to Dorset to see how one butterfly in particular survives the winter.
09 Feb 2014,·22 mins
Trai Anfield visits the grey seals at Blakeney Point on the Norfolk coast.
02 Feb 2014,·22 mins
Trai Anfield and Brian Morrell witness huge flocks of barnacle geese at WWT Caerlaverock.
24 Nov 2013,·22 mins
Chris Sperring joins Peter Wright and Andrew Gibson at Spurn National Nature Reserve.
17 Nov 2013,·22 mins
Chris Sperring talks to fungi expert Lynne Boddy about the weird world of fairy rings.
10 Nov 2013,·22 mins
Chris Sperring meets up with Richard Comont to find out more about the ivy bee.
03 Nov 2013,·20 mins
Chris Sperring searches for tube web spiders at Exeter Cathedral.
27 Oct 2013,·22 mins
Chris Sperring is in Hampshire looking at lime trees with lime tree specialist Hugh Milner
18 Aug 2013,·22 mins
Pine martens were once persecuted to near extinction but now are making a comeback.
11 Aug 2013,·22 mins
Chris Sperring meets Robin Scagell on a night-time safari for the enigmatic glow worm.
04 Aug 2013,·22 mins
Coquet Island off the Northumberland coast is the last breeding site for roseate terns.
28 Jul 2013,·22 mins
Chris Sperring goes to the River Dart in Devon to look for mandarin ducks.
19 May 2013,·22 mins
Chris Sperring joins botanist Ray Woods in west Wales to search for the Tenby daffodil.
12 May 2013,·22 mins
Trai Anfield revels in a sound spectacle on International Dawn Chorus Day.
05 May 2013,·22 mins
Brett Westwood searches for gold in East Anglian woods - the elusive golden pheasant.
28 Apr 2013,·22 mins
Chris Sperring is in mid-Sweden in search of wolves, following their tracks in the snow.
24 Feb 2013,·22 mins
Chris Sperring is in the Swedish taiga looking for the hawk owl.
17 Feb 2013,·22 mins
Trai Anfield heads to RSPB Old Moor reserve to seek out the once-common tree sparrow.
10 Feb 2013,·22 mins
