Planet Puffin

BBC

A regular podcast from PM on Radio 4 on all things puffin. Both the silly and the serious; the scientific and the cultural.

  • 10 minutes 19 seconds
    Ep 6: Summer of Swallows - Leaving

    Listeners say a bittersweet goodbye to swallows as they leave our shore.

    7 October 2021, 11:55 am
  • 5 minutes 46 seconds
    Ep 5: Summer of Swallows - Fledging

    Fledglings are learning to fly and avoid predators, like the sparrowhawk.

    20 September 2021, 12:07 pm
  • 9 minutes 43 seconds
    Ep 4: Summer of Swallows - Feeding

    The chicks have arrived and they need feeding. What's for dinner?

    29 June 2021, 3:23 pm
  • 11 minutes 53 seconds
    Ep3: Summer of Swallows - Nesting

    Swallows are building their nests and we are peering in.

    27 May 2021, 11:06 am
  • 15 minutes 37 seconds
    Ep2: Summer of Swallows - Arrival

    From the tip of Cornwall to the coasts of Scotland, the swallows are arriving home

    6 May 2021, 10:17 am
  • 9 minutes 13 seconds
    Ep1: Summer of Swallows - Migration

    The swallows are on their way, an epic 8,000 mile flight from South Africa. They're off!

    30 April 2021, 9:06 am
  • 1 minute 28 seconds
    Ep0: Summer of Swallows

    Introducing A Summer of Swallows! A new podcast from Today and Radio 4

    20 April 2021, 2:38 pm
  • 17 minutes 22 seconds
    Ep12: Planet Puffin - The Puffin Rescuers

    In the final episode, Becky Ripley and Emily Knight search for pufflings that have run into trouble on their journey from their burrows to the sea, guided by the light of the moon

    13 May 2020, 4:55 am
  • 14 minutes 38 seconds
    Ep11: Planet Puffin - Leaving the Nest

    Becky and Emily go in search of the last pufflings left in the burrows to give them a quick check-up before they leave their family homes and head out to sea

    13 May 2020, 4:50 am
  • 7 minutes 44 seconds
    Ep10: Planet Puffin - Puffin Decoys

    How do you draw puffins to an island they abandoned long ago? On Ramsey Island off the west coast of Wales, they're trying a very loud solution - blasting out the sound of puffins

    13 May 2020, 4:45 am
  • 5 minutes 52 seconds
    Ep9: Planet Puffin - Nuffin' Like a Puffin

    If you think puffins are just small penguins, Warhorse author Sir Michael Morpurgo is here to tell you how wrong you are in this tale of how Puffin Books led him to love the birds

    13 May 2020, 4:40 am
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