Tuesday 21st September
Saving Species
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 11:00 to 11:30 (Also Thu 2100)
Brett Westwood examines the world of nature and the challenges of wildlife conservation. Saba Douglas-Hamilton reports from Samburu national park in Kenya where she and her family have studied the elephants and lions for decades. They see pressures of climate, local people and a new tide of foreign hunters impacting on the wildlife. Saba reports it is the local tribes people who hold the key to looking after their precious wildlife and the international community to address the global issues of climate change and an worrying increase in poaching of large animals, especially elephants. In the same national park we hear of work by Earth Watch supporting local people to protect the rare Grevy's Zebra. And we report on a controversial project to re-introduce lions back into Zimbabwe.
Live Liberal Democrats 2010
On: BBC Parliament
Time: 14:30 to 18:00
Live coverage of proceedings at the Liberal Democrat Party conference in Liverpool, including a speech by Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne MP.
Nuclear Waste
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 20:00 to 20:40 (Also Sun 1700)
BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black asks which communities across the UK will volunteer to host permanent deep storage of the country's most dangerous radioactive waste. He investigates the objections communities have to siting waste storage in their backyard, and asks how these can be overcome. Richard visits the Onkalo site in Finland, where the world's first geological repository is due to open for business in ten years time. He finds out why the Finns were so enthusiastic about volunteering, even competing, to host this nuclear waste store and considers how the same process to identify a site here in the UK could unfold over the next 12 months.
Wednesday 22nd September
Costing the Earth
On: BBC Radio Four
Time: 21:00 to 21:30 (Also Thu 1330)
In the 19th century we defeated the great urban killers, cholera and TB, by redesigning our cities. Can we battle the modern menace of obesity in the same way? Tom Heap reports.
Thursday 23rd September
One Planet
On: BBC World Service Radio
Time: 10:32 to 11:00 (Also 1530, 2030, 0130, Sun 0630)
One Planet looks at how we use our planet.
Highgrove: Alan Meets Prince Charles
On: BBC 2
Time: 20:00 to 21:00
The Prince of Wales takes Alan Titchmarsh on a tour of Highgrove House - his own personal retreat and family home. Prince Charles gives a remarkably informal and candid interview about the outlet for all his gardening aspirations, offering a rare insight into a royal passion. The Highgrove estate has become synonymous with all things organic, and Alan finds out from Head Gardener Debs Goodenough and her team what inspired the beliefs of the most hands-on Royal gardener in history. Celebrating 30 years of Royal gardening at the estate, the documentary features excerpts from a performance of The Highgrove Suite, commissioned by His Royal Highness and composed by Patrick Hawes.
Friday 24th September
Escape to the Country
On: BBC 2
Time: 17:15 to 18:00
Shropshire.
Series in which prospective buyers are helped to find their dream home in the country. Alistair Appleton is in Shropshire helping a couple seek out a 'green' country dream. They have big ambitions and need a property from which to run an environmentally friendly B and B, self catering lets and sustainable eco lodges. But when they set eyes on a grade II listed, 600 year old farmhouse with brick barns to convert and three acres, all within budget, they can't quite believe their luck.
Saturday 25th September
British Isles: a Natural History
On: Yesterday
Time: 16:00 to 17:00 (Also 2000)
Our Future.
Alan concludes his journey and asks what the future might hold for our landscape and its wildlife: global warming, a big freeze or something much more sinister?
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