Nature Podcasts
Autumnal scene of a lake with a woman taking a photo underneath a tree with beautiful foliage

The selection of nature podcast episodes listed below are available long-term:


Kingfisher and Bullet Train The story of the bird and the engineer. How the kingfisher inspired the design of a train (from The 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter podcast) (15 minutes) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p074bgy2


Living with Nature: The sounds of the Maasai Mara The story of the bird and the engineer. How the kingfisher inspired the design of a train (from The Compass podcast) (27 minutes) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csxgvb


The Nature Table Christmas Special Sue Perkins is joined by celebrity guests from the worlds of comedy and natural history including: naturalist, presenter and writer Chris Packham, botanist, presenter and writer James Wong, wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan, and comedy actor Stephen Mangan (from The Nature Table podcast) (47 minutes) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/favourites/m000qjff

Cuckoo David Attenborough tells us how cuckoos get their eggs into the nests of other species (from the David Attenborough's Life Stories podcast) (10 minutes) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01130qm

Butterflies David Attenborough celebrates butterflies' migration with a twist of evolutionary thinking (from the David Attenborough's Life Stories podcast) (10 minutes) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b010t6c0

Joe Acheson on the Wren Listen to how slowing down the song of the wren sounds like gibbons in the rainforest (from the Tweet of the Day podcast) (2 minutes) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09rx1zy

In addition there are more in BBC Sounds'

Science & Nature Category