The man whose life was saved by honey bees

BBC Earth Podcast

Jenkins Laura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Tv & Film

4.6 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Beginnings. Join the crew from the BBC Studios series Dynasties on a journey to Senegal, home of Fongoli chimps. Each year, these chimps brave intense wildfires that ruin their homes. Destructive though they seem, these wildfires are actually part of the cycle of life. The stories in this episode embrace what it means to discover our roots, to begin again and the trials some animals must endure in their very first stages of life.

Very few of us get up early enough to hear the birds sing in the dawn and even fewer of us decide to sing back. English-Finnish vocalist Hanna Tuulikki calls back to the birds.

Eric Grandon, a military veteran, explains how caring for a colony of bees turned his life around after suffering his darkest days having returned home from war.

Finally, the BBC Springwatch team recount the harrowing journey of a tiny great tit named 'Plucky'.

Close your eyes and open your ears for the first episode of the BBC Earth Podcast.

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0:00.0	This is a podcast from BBC Studios.
0:03.9	BBC Studios.
0:05.9	A commercial subsidiary of the BBC Earth podcast.
0:31.1	It's a podcast all about nature.
0:34.7	Over the series, we'll be bringing you stories about the wild and beautiful natural world.
0:41.1	Stories from unexplored places, about some pretty amazing animals and the people who love them.
0:49.5	The theme for this first episode is beginnings, which I think is the perfect way to kick off a brand new podcast.
0:57.5	And what better way to begin with stories of beginnings than in the first cold streaks of light are the dawning of a new day.
1:08.6	I listened to the dawn chorus in the way that I would listen to a piece of music.
1:14.6	So sometimes I will drift through the different melodies
1:19.6	and then sometimes I'll tune in to a particular solo
1:23.6	that a robin might be doing or a wren might be doing.
1:32.3	The dawn chorus is really an audio picture of the place, of the habitat.
1:38.3	So the dawn chorus varies from place to place.
1:42.3	A woodland dawn chorus is very different to the dawn chorus next to the
1:47.7	sea. I particularly like the waders' dawn chorus. Very few of us get up early enough to hear the birds
1:57.4	sing in the dawn. And even fewer of us decide to sing back.
2:02.9	But this woman does.
2:04.3	My name is Hannah Tuliki.
2:06.6	I'm an artist, composer and performer.
2:10.3	And a lot of my work deals with the mimesis,
2:15.0	the imitation or emulation of the more than human world.
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