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  1. Saving Species - 29 Jan 13: Freshwater Eels and Mitten Crabs

    Ep22of24. Freshwater eels are explored this week, as Sian Griffiths reports from the...

  2. Saving Species - 25 Dec 12: British Overseas Territories

    Ep 17 of 24: Howard Stableford is in the chair for this Christmas Day Saving Species a...

  3. Saving Species - 23 Oct 12: British Raptors

    Brett Westwood discusses issues arising in our countryside from a rising bird of prey...

  4. Saving Species - 22 Jan 13: Bonobos & Dragon Trees

    Ep21 of 24: This week Saving Species looks at Bonobos - a great ape, related to and in...

  5. Saving Species - 20 Nov 12: Ash die back/Managing Woodlands

    Ep 12 of 24: Plant a tree in 73" became a national slogan and very large numbers of...

  6. Saving Species - 18 Dec 12: Wildlife Art/Wildlife Gardening Forum

    Ep 16 of 24: This week Brett Westwood looks at the increasing alliance between the and...

  7. Saving Species - 15 Jan 13: Marine Conservation Zones

    Ep20 of 24: Marine Conservation Zones are in the spotlight this week, as Saving looks...

  8. Saving Species - 13 Nov 12: Goliath Grouper/Asiatic Lion/Waxwings

    Reporter Mark Brazil travels to the Gir Forest National Park in India to report on the...

  9. Saving Species - 12 Feb 13: Rarities & Recordings

    Ep 24 of 24. In the final episode of the current series, Saving Species looks at the...

  10. Saving Species - 11 Dec 12: Rewilding/Devonshire Beavers

    Ep 15 of 24: Saving Species takes a look at what could happen if parts of the British...

  11. Saving Species - 08 Jan 13: International Wildlife

    Ep 19 of 24: Saving Species investigates the relationship between polar bears and the...

  12. Saving Species - 06 Nov 12: Wildcats/Tooth Fungi

    Ep 10 of 24 Saving Species reporter Karen Partridge travels to Scotland to seek out an...

  13. Saving Species - 05 Feb 13: British And Arctic Mammals

    Ep. 23 of 24: This week's edition of Saving Species looks at the introduction of cull...

  14. Saving Species - 04 Dec 12: Scottish Species Action Framework

    Ep: 14 of 24Scotland's five year Species Action Framework programme ended in March 2012.

  15. Saving Species - 01 Jan 13: Wetland Habitats

    Ep 18 of 24: Saving Species kick's off the new year with a look at the role of wetland...

  16. R4 Afternoon Drama 22 Jan 13: Chapel of Skins

    Recorded high up in the Shropshire hills of the Welsh Marches and inspired by a living...

  17. Penguin Post Office Ep5

    In the final programme in the series, wildlife cameraman and narrator Doug Allan joins...

  18. Penguin Post Office Ep4

    Life is tough not only for a colony of Gentoo penguins on a tiny island in Antarctica,...

  19. Penguin Post Office Ep3

    With their ship locked in ice a film crew attempt to walk across the frozen Antarctic...

  20. Penguin Post Office Ep2

    Fierce storms and dense sea ice provide more challenges to a film crew trying to reach...

  21. Penguin Post Office Ep1

    Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan narrates the first of five programmes following the of a...

  22. Nature: The Midland Brown Snake - Dead or Alive

    The Midland Brown Snake found in the eastern United States, like many snake species in...

  23. Nature: James and the Giant Atlas Cedars

    In August 2013, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reclassified...

  24. Nature: Islands of Ice and Fire

    In the first of new series of NATURE, we join wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson in...

  25. Nature: In search of Humpback whales

    Every year between January and April, Humpback whales from all around the North Ocean...

  26. Nature: Bigfoot - Not a Bear

    A "Nature" with a bit of a difference. Instead of looking at rare species and this on...

  27. Nature: Bewitched by Dragonflies

    In 1985, a dragonfly landed on Ruary Mackenzie Dodds. Up until this time, he had never...

  28. Nature: Arctic terns at 66 Degrees North

    In the second of three programmes recorded in Iceland, wildlife sound recordist Chris...

  29. Nature 31 July 12: Bird Wars on Malta

    In Nature, Matthew Hill takes us from the windswept Maltese countryside, to the of to...

  30. Nature 3 April 12 Drumming Down

    As spring woodlands resound with the drumming of woodpeckers, Brett Westwood hears a...

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