Natural Histories
Brett Westwood explores our relationship with nature and its impact on human culture and society, complimented by comedy sketches and the Natural History Heroes series. UK Only.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s8ykn
- Description
- Brett Westwood explores our relationship with nature and its impact on human culture and society, complimented by comedy sketches and the Natural History Heroes series. UK Only.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2023-12-24 19:55
- last episode published
- 2018-09-25 10:30
- publication frequency
- 16.82 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio 4
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 73
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Education Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2018-09-25 | Series celebrating the infinite variety of the natural world and its depiction in culture. In the final episode of the series we present our swan song. Ethereally white and otherworldy, the Swan has featured in countless fairytales and myths. Brett Wes... |
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| 2018-09-18 |
Penguins and us: from engaging funny figures to sentinels of change. Its arguable that a certain dinner-suited bird has captured our hearts and minds more than any other creature over the centuries. As Brett Westwood discovers, penguins remind us of ourselves - like us they stand upright, they travel in groups, they com... |
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| 2018-09-11 | The story of our relationship with Orchids is a story of obsession, money, deceit, beauty, femme fatales, ghosts, deception and let's be honest, sex. Orchid flowers come in a variety of colours, shapes and sizes - but they all have one thing in common ... |
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| 2018-09-04 | Dogs have changed us and we've changed them. Brett Westwood visits Battersea to meet the animals whose history is most inextricably linked with our own. And in the process very nearly loses a furry microphone cover to an enthusiastic lurcher named Trev... |
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| 2018-08-28 | Brett Westwood on the Komodo dragon - myth, monster and reality. With contributions from Mark Carwardine, Antonia Quirke and Joe Capon of the Attenborough Komodo Dragon House. |
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| 2018-08-23 | Holding what looks like a television aerial, reptile ecologist Nigel Hand strides across the heath. It may look something out of a science fiction movie, but as Nigel explains to Brett Westwood he is on a serious quest; searching for adders. These adde... |
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| 2018-08-14 | Brett Westwood explores our relationship with an Arctic Legend, the Narwhal. This Unicorn of the Sea is not only extraordinary in appearance, but tantalisingly difficult to study! |
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| 2018-08-07 | Brett Westwood looks at the history of a bird which has become a byword for male beauty. It's all about the tail: inspiration for everyone from Darwin to Oscar Wilde, from poets to peacocking pop stars. In Lancashire, Brett walks among peacocks of e... |
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| 2018-08-07 | With its playful, hand-holding, pebble-juggling ways, the otter wins the cuteness contest with its eyes closed. It's no wonder such a stunningly elegant and charismatic animal has been the star of films and books and the inspiration for thousands to ma... |
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| 2018-07-24 | Brett Westwood explores how our idea of the dung beetle has morphed over the ages. The most sacred symbol in Egyptian ideology, the scarab beetle was also the butt of Classical Greek jokes, the inspiration for anti-conceptual art, the go-to filthy ... |
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