News about Steve Backshall

The constant sound of birdsong streaming through their radios has become a part of dedicated Radio 4 listeners' awakening ritual. But this is about to come to an end after the station announced that it is axeing the weekday broadcasts of Tweet of the Day - which broadcasts the call or song of a particular species. The show, which precedes the Today show, first appeared in 2013. It usually airs at 5.58 a.m. for about 90 seconds. With bosses aiming to give Farming Today more airtime, it is now being reduced to just a Sunday broadcast as part of schedule shifts. Sir David Attenborough, Chris Packham, Bill Oddie, Kate Humble, and Steve Backshall have all sent a tweet of the Day.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The handheld photography on Breathtaking (ITV) was enough to bring on dizziness and nausea. When the first wave of Covid-19 strikes Britain in March 2020, director Craig Viveiros hoped to convey the frantic urgency and a sense of increasing terror. However, the process of filming the hospital scenes as if we were in a war zone, with the image spinning and diving, became an annoying gimmick.

Steve Backshall, one of Britain's most recognisable naturalists, is a vociferous advocate for the wonders of the oceans. This book is a often humorous account of his expeditions and the numerous times he has swum with whales, dolphins, and sharks. Backshall describes his enchantment with 'the most inhabited environment in our known universe, and yet the least understood'. Bizarre animals abound, from 'immortal jellyfish' that (in theory) regenerate forever to a shrimp that can fit in the palm of a hand. Backshall is acutely aware of the dangers that threaten the oceans. The bulk of them are as a result of our activities.

Check out our analysts' picks of the best films and shows to watch On Demand right now, from thrilling thrillers to festive fantasies. This weekend, the experts have chosen their top ten shows to watch as well as ten new launches. We've also included our reviews of the hottest new cinemas debuts in case that wasn't enough. To find out what to watch this weekend, read on.

On Planet Earth III (BBC), there are 1,000 ants for every human in New York, and they're all addicted to junk food - equivalent to 60,000 hotdogs discarded in the city streets. However, Sir David has devised a scheme that will keep ants in the Big Apple... well, apples, perhaps. Or something else vegan they can find - let's hope ants like tofu burgers. He wants us to'shift away from eating meat and dairy and toward a plant-based diet,' as he explained at the end of the episode. By then, we'd been encouraged to turn up our noses at bacon and eggs, with shots of pigs tied into cages and thousands of live chicks being sorted on conveyor belts.

Steve Backshall, (pictured left with his wife, Olympic champion rower Helen Glover) has dedicated his life to getting close to the world's most endangered animals. And he's back on it in his latest Sky Nature series Whale With Steve Backshall, where he has a heart-stopping encounter with a killer whale off the coast of Norway. One became incredibly interested in me for the first time in two decades,' says Steve, 50.

On BBC One, an exciting new documentary following six presenters who are passionate about the natural world is due to air. Chris Packham, Liz Bonnin, Steve Backshall, Gordon Buchanan, Ade Adepetan, and Ella Al-Shamahi will tour six different habitats around the world, with the hosts returning to chart pivotal shifts at a critical time in Earth history. In California, Greenland, the Maldives, Brazil, Kenya, and Cambodia, they will meet scientists and local conservationists who are trying to make a difference in California, Greenland, the Maldives, Kenya, and Cambodia as they investigate the planet's ecological dangers.

A bountifully cheap painkiller was praised as a wonder drug for preventing heart disease by making blood less sticky and therefore less likely to cause artery-clogging clots. Doctors began to advise that anyone over the age of 55 who was concerned about a heart attack could safely take the drug on a daily basis. This same medication was proclaimed as one of our best cancer treatments eight years ago, due in large part of cell-damaging inflammation in our bodies. Any doctors have started recommending that you take a daily preventive dose.