Episodes
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Crocodiles galore - with Dr David Kirshner, at the Sydney Zoo - great croc overview
On a recent trip to Australia Fergus talks with Croc expert, Dr David Kirshner, of Sydney Zoo, to get the latest overview on the crocodile family worldwide, but also of the 'salty'- the most awesome Australian species. Added bonus - Learn how to tell the difference between an alligator and a...
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Samara - A pioneering conservation journey regenerating South Africa’s Great Karoo
Fergus Keeling has just got back from an astonishing project in South Africa where 11 farms have been rewilded to create one of Africa's most cherished new habitats. Can we get back to parts of Africa that can be as they were when all large animals roamed free?
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The Whale In The Living Room - how we came to love the sea through TV
The Whale in the Living Room follows the thrilling adventures of award-winning wildlife documentary producer, John Ruthven, on a journey of discovery - by turns memorable, touching and often funny -that has helped the undersea world flow into countless living rooms to reveal many of our ocean's...
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Life on Earth revisited gives us the inspiration to live like Sir David Attenborough
Fergus and John make their 2020 debut with a short piece about the new book by Sir David Attenborough that revises the first edition he wrote 40 years ago, and talk of how it inspires them in their new projects for 2020.
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Should we touch elephants?
Fergus has a life affirming moment with elephants that could not be reproduced in our modern world of screens and virtual reality.
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Living Underwater and the adventures of Sea Station 'Obelia One'
Back in the 1960s Jacques Cousteau founded an underwater village - but no one tried seriously again to live underwater for another hundred years..... with Fergus Keeling and John Ruthven
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Do Spiders Sleep? A guide to sleep in the animal kingdom in 40 winks.
Do Spiders Sleep? That was one question to BBC Radio 4's Natural History Programme nearly 30 years ago. With apologies to the 8 year old boy who asked it, here is the answer, and much more besides about sleep in the animal kingdom, such as how to recognise a jellyfish with a hangover.
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Top 7 Creepy Deep Sea Creatures
For creatures that live in the dark they don't half have some strange eyes! Fergus takes John through this cast of the top seven 'creepies' of the deep sea. All these animals are peculiar to us but can you get more spooky than the spook fish?
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Setts in the City - the joy of urban wildlife
Fergus and John discuss the urban wildlife of Bristol, Singapore and New York and find that some dachshunds seem to fly...
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The Joy of Elephants and a Sticky Situation
Fergus and John explain a life-long love of elephants and some surprising encounters in Africa, including first hand experience of 'mating pademonium' - the moment when the whole herd goes wild with the courtship and mating by a dominant bull in 'musth'. Includes explicit details of elephant...
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Sneezed on by a marine iguana and swimming under a whale shark in the Galapagos
Fergus and John remember their seperate visits to the remote Galapagos Islands where each had unusual encounters and the spirit of Darwin was definately with them!
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The accidental whale riders and fun in the Bay of Fundy
Fergus remembers a key family moment conquering their fears in Canada's foggy Bay of Fundy, discovering the joys of whale watching. John also recalls very surprising 'close-encounters' with whales from filming the Blue Planet and how they convinced him that 80 ton leviathans can be the gentlest…
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Looking for a female voice for a Cheetah
Fergus goes on safari in the Eastern Cape of South Africa as a surprise birthday present, and brings back a great recording of his close encounters with Cheetahs. Playing it back, John suggests that they add another element to the recording. What results is an experimental new audio experience -...
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The Gulper Eel and a journey to the deep dark sea
The gulper eel is one of the strangest creatures on Earth, and yet it may be more common than you think because it lives in the middle depths of the oceans, which are the biggest of all wildernesses on our planet. Fergus asks John about his ventures into this realm and what it's like to take a...
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Once upon a time in the salt lakes of Canada
Fergus and John remember a life changing experience when they recorded a radio show together in Canada for BBC Radio 4's 'The Natural History Programme'. Although about 30 years ago they both vividly remember their few days in Wood Buffalo National Park, when there were no mobile phones and you...
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Wolf At The Door - when and how we came to live with dogs (first ever episode)
Dr Fergus Keeling and Dr John Ruthven are Zoologists and lifelong friends since they worked together at the BBC’s Natural History Unit nearly 30 years ago. In this - the first podcast of a new series - Fergus and John discuss how and when dogs became our friends, how a sheepdog called 'Chaser'…
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