The Living World

{{Short description|UK radio program}}

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| home_station = BBC Radio 4

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• Trai Anfield
• Chris Sperring

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| producer = Andrew Dawes

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The Living World is a long-running natural history radio programme, made by the BBC and broadcast on its Radio 4.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qyz3|title=The Living World|work=BBC Online|access-date=30 December 2012}} The series was created at the BBC Natural History Unit by Dilys Breese and Derek Jones, initially as a 52-week series, in 1968.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/oct/17/guardianobituaries.media|title=Obituary: Dilys Breese|last=Paine|first=Barry|date=2007-10-17|work=The Guardian|access-date=15 January 2011}} It chiefly covers topics related to the flora and fauna of the British Isles, with occasional forays further afield, such as a 1997 episode on the wildlife of the Rock of Gibraltar.{{cite web|url=http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/l/li/living_world__the.html|title=The Living World|work=Radio Listings|access-date=31 December 2012}}

For many years until 2009 the lead presenter was Lionel Kelleway. Current presenters are Trai Anfield and Chris Sperring. Other presenters include Miranda Krestovnikoff,{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/radio/2012/03/quirke-flies-sedge-living-sexy|title=The Living World (BBC Radio 4)|last=Quirke|first=Antonia|date=2012-03-05|access-date=30 December 2012}} Paul Evans Brett Westwood. and Joanna Pinnock

{{As of|2010|08}} the producer is Andrew Dawes.

In July 1968, two possible theme tunes for the programme were composed and recorded by Delia Derbyshire,BBC's Sound Archive, tape number TRW 6886 but these were rejected and a piece of jazz music used instead.[http://wiki.delia-derbyshire.net/wiki/DD081347 Hand-written note by Derbyshire in BBC archives]