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There are 1745 episodes in the Nature topic.

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Bucolic contrasts under low cloud – the land between Sandy and St Neots
^{31:08 | Episode: 44 | December 5th, 2020}

Tingling droplets still hanging in the air from the clearing mist, with not much daylight left, we finally managed to find a place to record. A lonely outcrop of oak trees beside the trackway, with a clear view of the surrounding landscape. Magpies circling. The spot had an interesting feel to it. We found later that the track dated back to the Iron Age and then became a roman road. Half a mile back down the track we stumbled upon a long overgrown airfield, a barn in a cluster of trees containing a memorial to the people stationed there. During WWII it was known as RAF Tempsford. Covert missions were deployed into occupied France. Now, from this little outcrop of trees, the air is ringing under low cloud with the sounds of today’s bucolic contrasts. Of sounds near and far. Of harsh tchacking magpies and distantly mellifluous starlings. Of a loud croaky wood pigeon at roost in the tree, and of a pheasant making its creaky calls as it roams the nearby field. Of trains skimming the horizon on the mainline from London to Peterborough. And of a noisy farm vehicle as it rattles and splashes and bumps right past the microphones on the puddled trackway. Then by again. Grittily tracing its way back to the far field whence it came. It’s a late November day, less than an hour to sunset. There’s a horse, echoes of bird scarers from across the fields, and still a bee, buzzing by left to right between the leaf-bare trees. One for sorrow two for joy, three for a girl four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told.

S3 E13: Red Knots (?!) and Science with Spinach
^{00:26:20 | Season: 3 | Episode: 13 | December 2nd, 2020}

Ahoi Landlubbers, Captain Emma is here to teach you all about knots. The bowline, the Sailor’s knot, the double bend, the red knot… Wait – isn’t a Red Knot a migrating shorebird? Tune in to find out!

Ep 14: The Little Snot House That Could
^{00:23:25 | Season: 1 | Episode: 14 | December 2nd, 2020}

Today Melissa discusses the rats of the Black Plague who got a bad rap ; the tiniest, but mightiest, snot house of the sea, and a common house pet who is banned from Queensland, Australia.

The Pearl
^{03:43 | Season: 6 | Episode: 2 | December 1st, 2020}

Something dangerous gets transformed into something beautiful. Listen to the adventure of the creation of one of nature’s most precious objects in this continuation of the last episode.

43 Tidal water mirror still – a sound view from Canvey Island
^{31:19 | Episode: 43 | November 28th, 2020}

A bird calls out. Its cry carries far out over the water on this, a rare day of no wind. Not even a breeze or a whisper of leaves in the trees. Cows low from farmland on the floodplain beside the Thames Estuary. From a hidden nest, little birds flutter in and out. What planes there are pass softly, almost inaudibly, but just enough to reveal the vastness of the bright afternoon sky. It’s hanging on, the light, longer for a late November day. Away from the footpath down a thick grassy slope we found the water, at rest between the tides. Shallow over boot stealing mud, it was mirroring the sky. A corner within the landscape of visceral stillness. Tiny bubbles are popping on the surface of the water. Almost too delicate to hear. We lower the tripod to get the microphones closer, then carry on with our walk to let them record alone. To the keen ear, murmurs waft in from out over the estuary of curlew, avocet and geese. Crows caw. A horse neighs. The air vibrates. This isn’t just a pastoral landscape beside a wild estuary, it is edgeland too. On the western horizon, three perhaps four miles distant are tall cranes at work shifting containers. They place and drop, each makes a gentle roll of thunder. It’s the London Gateway Port. The still water bubbles and pops. The little birds flutter back. Walkers clink the gate up by the field but this spot is well hidden from view. And what was that? Something plopped into the water. Or jumped out of it? Who knows, there was no one here to see.

The Bacteria Cookbook
^{00:17:11 | November 27th, 2020}

Bacteria are among the simplest forms of life on Earth. Each cell is identical to the one next to it, sharing the same DNA. So why do they all act so differently? Turns out, there’s a “cookbook” inside each teeny tiny bacteria cell, and every single bacteria has different ideas about the recipes it wants to make. Mary Dunlop is a biological engineer who’s a creative cook both in the kitchen and the lab – and she’s cooking up her own experiment of science discovery.

Ep 13: Sergeant Stubby
^{00:26:58 | Season: 1 | Episode: 13 | November 25th, 2020}

We’re going to talk about a frisky feline who left her prints ALL over history, a mutt who was promoted to sergeant in WW1 and a snake who sent a man to a hospital hours after the snake was beheaded.

42 Night beside a stream in Wales (sleep safe)
^{01:00:00 | Episode: 42 | November 21st, 2020}

Up in the hills about three miles from the mid-Wales village of Ceri, there’s a stream. It runs down into the valley mostly parallel to a road. The landscape is largely uninhabited. It’s a very peaceful spot. To make this recording we had to push through thick brambles and climb down into a dell where the stream flows bright and shallow over worn stones. Sheltered within steep banks ankle-deep with dry leaves and beneath budding trees, the stream flows with a crystal clear clarity. We left the microphones to record overnight (see also episodes 13 and 21). This is the hour from about 3 to 4am. All the birds are asleep, except for a pair of tawny owls that can be heard calling to each other at the beginning. Cars occasionally pass up on the road in front, a reminder that there is an outside world beyond the perfect stillness that exists within this hidden dell. It is rare to have captured the sound of nothing happening.

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There are 1745 episodes in the Nature topic.

Bucolic contrasts under low cloud – the land between Sandy and St Neots 31:08 | Episode: 44 | December 5th, 2020

S3 E13: Red Knots (?!) and Science with Spinach 00:26:20 | Season: 3 | Episode: 13 | December 2nd, 2020

Ep 14: The Little Snot House That Could 00:23:25 | Season: 1 | Episode: 14 | December 2nd, 2020

The Pearl 03:43 | Season: 6 | Episode: 2 | December 1st, 2020

43 Tidal water mirror still – a sound view from Canvey Island 31:19 | Episode: 43 | November 28th, 2020

The Bacteria Cookbook 00:17:11 | November 27th, 2020

Ep 13: Sergeant Stubby 00:26:58 | Season: 1 | Episode: 13 | November 25th, 2020

42 Night beside a stream in Wales (sleep safe) 01:00:00 | Episode: 42 | November 21st, 2020