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...

Reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street - except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted combover - but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lies a warm...

Why?: Scientific Answers to Fundamental Questions'; sets out to provide simple answers to the most fundamental questions about the world. Asking why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? Why do we...

I walked up to the booking-office and uttered the magic words: ‘Three singles to Adventure, please,’ I said. ‘First or second class?’ said the clerk...

So begins Gerald...

In the sixth of our series of bird guides, recorded on location on The Long Mynd in Shropshire, Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss are assisted by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson as they...

An expansion of the ideas and research contained in the acclaimed ITV series, 'The Adventure of English 500AD to 2000'.

This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its...

Based on the broadcasts made by Gerald Durrell for the BBC, this is a vividly entertaining account of the animals he discovered and observed from Argentina to Africa and from Greece to Guiana. We...

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,...

Gerald Durrell, the former Director and owner of Jersey Zoo, is internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals. 'The Overloaded Ark' describes an expedition to the...

Heather Couper presents a sweeping history of astronomy, as heard on BBC Radio 4.In this 30-part BBC Radio 4 series, astronomer Heather Couper charts the history of our understanding of the...

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...

Join Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss in this fascinating guide to the sounds of our most popular coastal birds, as heard on BBC Radio 4.In the fourth of our series of bird guides, Brett Westwood...

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...

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...