REEP - What's On - TV & Radio Listings

Monday 19 July

Countrywise

8:00pm

Series in which Paul Heiney and the team look at the best of Britain's coast and country. Today they are in Snowdonia to discover how the mountains actually provide a living for the locals and slate for the world. Rachel de Thame is in the fantasy village of Portmeirion to see how plant life is being developed around its eccentric buildings.

Tuesday 20 July

Saving Species

11:00am

Brett Westwood examines the world of nature and the challenges of wildlife conservation. 16: Are caravan sites great unsung nature reserves? Plus a report from seabird biologists on the Isle of May.

Home Planet

3:00pm

Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions about the natural world and our impact on it.

Wednesday 21 July

Frontiers

9:00pm

Acts of Creation: The creation of an artificial cell by Craig Venter shows what synthetic biology is capable of. But others want to go much further, and recreate life from scratch. Science writer Adam Rutherford asks what it will mean to us when it eventually happens.

Thursday 22 July

Open Country

3:00pm

Helen Mark visits Northern Ireland to take to the waters of Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the UK, measuring over 20 miles long, nine miles wide and containing over 800 billion gallons of water. Seven years ago, a group of local people came together to form the Lough Neagh Partnership to renew and maintain the lough, and Helen hears from some of the people involved. She starts her journey by boarding the Island Warrior from Sandy Bay to Rams Island, formerly a rat-infested strip of land on the lough and now a haven for wildlife and a popular tourist spot. She hears from Gerry Darby about why the Lough Neagh Partnership was formed and also from Island Warrior skipper and volunteer Michael Savage about the labour of love carried out to transform Rams Island. Helen then continues her journey around the shore, hearing from heritage officer and archaeologist Moira O'Rourke about some of the stories she has unearthed in her shoreline walks and from Kieran Breen of the Lough Neagh Heritage Boating Association about about his passion for keeping alive the age-old spirit of the Lough Neagh by building some of the old traditional working boats used on the lough. Helen rounds off her day along the shores with a visit to Coney Island, the only inhabited island on the lough, where she hears from the island's only inhabitant about the changes he has seen during his 12 years on Coney.