This behind-the-scenes look at how the first programmes were made reveals moments of hardship on horseback, canoe and in a wreck of a jeep through swamp, desert and rainforest. Attenborough tells...

This programme marks the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of homeopathy's founding text 'Samuel Hahnemann's Organon of Rational Medicine'. It recognises that homeopathy remains deeply...

The Silent Miaow is the classic instruction book for all cats, based upon first-hand feline experience.Inside it contains all the information that every cat should know, such as: How to win a...

Gerald Durrell was a zoo enthusiast from the age of two when he started collecting everything alive, from minnows to woodlice. When, finally, he decided to set up the Jersey Wildlife Preservation...

The BBC Sound Archive contains numerous recordings collected over many years, and this collection covers a range of combat and disaster sound effects from this vast library - ideal for use in your...

The BBC Sound Archive contains numerous recordings compiled over many years, and this collection covers a range of sound effects relating to land transport - ideal for use in your home studio.

Mark Whitaker reports from Britain and the USA on the science of geoengineering and the political questions it raises. Putting giant parasols in space, injecting substances into the stratosphere,...

The complete second BBC Radio 4 series written and presented by Sir David Attenborough featuring all 20 episodes about some of the strangest insects and creatures from around the world.One of...

The BBC Sound Archive contains numerous recordings compiled over many years, and this collection covers a range of foreign sound effects - ideal for use in your home studio.

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The BBC Sound Archive contains numerous recordings collected over many years, and this collection covers a range of sound effects from this vast library that feature babies and children - ideal...

The BBC Sound Archive contains numerous recordings compiled over many years, and this collection covers a range of sound effects recorded in the city - ideal for use in your home studio.

You wouldn’t be ‘barking mad’ if, when asked the definition of certain phrases, ‘the cat got your tongue’ and you ‘clammed up’. Let’s not ‘beat around the bush’; the English...

The BBC Sound Archive contains numerous recordings compiled over many years, and this collection covers a range of the many sound effects suggesting death and horror - ideal for use in your home...

One of the weighty and apparently immovable pieces of our mental furniture is the notion that Queen Victoria was a prude. Another is that the Italian Renaissance was a sunny dream where man was...

Why can't you light a candle in a spaceship? What books are bad for you? Is nature natural? Every year Oxford and Cambridge's learned professors pose such curious conundrums to potential students...