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John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife. Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of the garden - were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions: exploring the wonders of nature and writing about them. Warm, wise and full of wonder, The Dun Cow Rib is a captivating coming of age tale by one of the founding fathers of nature writing.

From his Cornish boyhood, Rory recounts his life of birdwatching, observing his first skylark while stoned; his repeatedly failed attempts to get up at the crack of dawn like the real twitchers; and his flawed bid to educate his mate Danny in the ways of birding. Rory's tale is a thoroughly educational, occasionally lyrical and highly amusing romp through the hidden byways of birdwatching.

Unfair Game features the shocking results of a new inquiry Lord Ashcroft has carried out into South Africa’s lion business. He shows how tourists are unwittingly being used to support the abuse of lions he details how lions are being tranquilised and then hunted in enclosed spaces he urges the British government to ban imports of captive-bred lion trophies and he demonstrates why Asia’s insatiable appetite for lion bones has become a multi-million-dollar business linked to criminality and corruption which now underpins South Africa's captive lion industry.

It is hard to imagine that the busy townscape of South London was once a great wood, stretching almost seven miles from Croydon to Deptford or that, scattered through the suburbs, from Dulwich to Norwood, a number of oak woodlands have survived since before the Norman Conquest. These woods were intensively managed for a thousand years, providing timber for construction, furniture and shipbuilding, and charcoal for London's blacksmiths, kilns and bakeries. Now they afford important green space, a vital habitat for small mammals, birds and insects.

This podcast is a conversation of informal ichthyology, discussing all things F.E.E.S.H, getting insight about fish from a fishing, ecology, evolution, social impact and husbandry standpoint. Fish are a serious topic, with 10-12% of the world relying on fish for their income. We love to hear the stories about the people working with them and how fish have an impact on their lives. The goal is to bridge the gap between us a-fish-ionados, and to strike up interesting conversations between scientists, naturalists, fishermen, and fish keepers.

So spannend kann Wissenschaft sein: Die beiden F.A.Z.-Redakteure, Astrophysikerin und Wissenschaftsphilosophin Sibylle Anderl und Biologe Joachim Müller-Jung, sprechen in jeder Folge des Wissenspodcasts über relevante wissenschaftliche Themen und aktuelle Studien. Sie stellen Bahnbrechendes, Nützliches, Überraschendes, Spannendes und Skurriles aus der Welt der Forschung verständlich vor. Die Bereiche reichen von Medizin und Ernährung, über Weltraum, Leben und Gene, Geist und Soziales, Erde, Wald und Klima, bis hin zu Archäologie und Altertum. Immer am Ende der Woche erscheint eine neue...

Weekly interviews with eye witness telling their encounters with the Sasquatch.