Science & Nature Audiobooks

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...

David Attenborough’s books and broadcasts have opened the incredible world of natural history to millions of viewers and listeners.

'Zoo Quest for a Dragon' takes us back to one of...

His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly five decades and there are very few places on the globe that he has not visited. In this volume of memoirs David tells stories of the...

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

Following his expedition to Indonesia, as told in 'Zoo Quest for a Dragon', David Attenborough's next animal collecting and filming trip – as part of the successful 'Zoo Quest' television series...

As part of his continuing adventures filmed for the BBC TV series ‘Zoo Quest’, David Attenborough ventured to the Northern Territory of Australia. It is an area that extends for a thousand...

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...

We find Gerald Durrell coping with uncooperative animals and TV producers during the filming of 'The Amateur Naturalist'.

In the gloom it came along the branches towards me, its round, hypnotic eyes blazing, its spoon-like ears turning to and fro independently like radar dishes...I had had my first encounter with...

Gerald Durrell would one day become a much-loved conservationist. In 'Beasts in My Belfry' he takes his first step towards fulfilling his ambition in this charming account of his job as a student...

In Corfu, Mother is given a calamitous birthday party which starts with the hi-jacking of the icebox and ends with the entire gathering marooned on a remote and deserted beach.At a dinner party...

When Mother starts showing an interest in passion-flowers the children decide it is time she got married again.The romantic island of Corfu is unable to produce many suitable candidates, but...

The enchanted island of Corfu was home to Gerald Durrell and his family for five years before the Second World War.For the passionate young zoologist, Corfu was a natural paradise, teeming with...

Gerald Durrell revisits his family’s five-year sojourn on the Greek island of Corfu in this sequel to 'My Family and Other Animals'.

Already an avid naturalist at the age of ten,...

The Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust is Gerald Durrell’s dream come true. At the age of six he told his mother that he intended to start a zoo. Here he celebrates his zoo’s 25th and the...

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...

Gerald Durrell describes a collecting expedition to the Cameroons where, with the assistance of a pack of African enthusiasts and mongrel dogs, he captured almost everything, from flying mice to...

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.

Everyone knows that the TARDIS is bigger on the inside than the outside; and the selection of aural locations from the Doctor's travels will equally broaden your horizons.No fewer than seven...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

The BBC Sound Archive contains numerous recordings compiled over many years, and this collection covers a range of sound effects ranging from turn-of-the-century cars right up to the Seventies -...

This 30-part series explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. Recorded on location around the world and featuring treasures from the British Library's Sound...

A living legend, "Wildman" Steve Brill, leads us on a lively and entertaining tour through the Northeastern United States as he shares tips on foraging in densely populated areas like New York's...

Hermione Cockburn tells the story of the man who in the 1920s added lead to petrol and a decade later put CFCs into fridges. Both were great advances in their day but ultimately came with great...

Can animals really be gay? Some biologists argue that they can, and that their experiences challenge Darwin's theories of evolution. Hermione Cockburn investigates.

Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open source' computer software. Much has been said about the likes of free web browser Firefox and the operating system Linux, but little about...

It's often claimed that you're never more than 10 feet from a rat, and you could probably say the same about lasers. In the home and at the shops, throughout medicine, the military, and almost...

Frauke Jensen reports on a wildlife research project set up by two German scientists with the aim of counting Namibia's cheetah population.

It is commonly known that honeybees have been dying in large numbers, but much less well known that bumblebees are just as important when it comes to pollinating crops and flowers, and that they...

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

The story of one man's discovery of the global contamination of the environment by man-made lead compounds, presented by environmental scientist Dr Hermione Cockburn. It was largely thanks to...