Beavers of London

BBC Inside Science

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Technology, Science

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Ealing Beaver Project has found success as two new beaver kits have been born in a park in London after being reintroduced last October.

Marnie visits the site to learn more about the benefits they bring - but beavers are just a drop in the river of urban rewilding. We find out what the practicalities and pitfalls of letting nature take back space in our cities are.

Do you feel like your dog is watching you? You're probably right. Zoologist and broadcaster Jules Howard ponders on the human-watching acuity of our beloved pets.

And our guts are not the only places where bacterial communities thrive, new research tells us that our microwaves also have a microbiome. Should we be worried?

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producers: Ella Hubber, Sophie Ormiston and Gerry Holt Editor: Martin Smith Production Co-ordinators: Jana Bennett-Holesworth and Andrew Rhys Lewis

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0:00.0	My name is Annie Matt Manus and my name is Nick Grimshaw. How long have we known each other babe?
0:05.1	Probably 20 years now and in that time we've always worked in and around music right?
0:10.6	We have. So it kind of makes sense that we do a podcast better.
0:13.4	It sounds like he's been 20 years in the making. It's not a avatar for podcasts, basically,
0:17.6	but it is good. So we put the world to rights with regards to music.
0:21.5	It's all the stuff that you'd want to chat to your mate about over a pint.
0:25.0	Sidetracked with us, Annie and Nick,
0:27.0	listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts.
0:35.0	Welcome to the podcast of Inside Science First
0:37.4	broadcasts on the 15th of August,
0:39.4	2024.
0:40.8	I'm Marnie Chesterton, and this is me earlier out of the studio.
0:46.5	Coming up over the next half hour is man's best friend also man or woman's most astute observer.
0:53.7	And you may be aware of the zoo of bacteria
0:57.0	known as your gut microbiome, but are you aware
1:00.3	of the microbiomes lurking in your kitchen appliances.
1:04.0	Stay tuned to find out what's growing where.
1:07.0	Now, as you may have noticed,
1:09.0	Inside Science is not in the silent studios of the BBC, which is why you can probably hear car noises in the background,
1:17.0	but should we be able to hear more wildlife sounds in the soundscape as well. The urban rewilding movement is growing in popularity
1:26.5	and some scientists say in necessity. Can and should we be bringing the wilderness back to the urban jungle?
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