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Occupation
  
Radio presenter

Name
  
Brett Westwood

Awards
  
Dilys Breese Medal

Role
  
Author

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Education
  
King Edward's School, Birmingham

Residence
  
Stourbridge, United Kingdom

Books
  
Natural Histories, Tweet of the Day: A Year of Br, Great White Shark: Ha, Worcestershire Countryside, Great White Shark/Stv

Brett Westwood podcast - Radio presenter for BBC 4 Natural Histories


Brett Westwood is a radio presenter and author, specialising in natural history. He regularly presents episodes of BBC Radio 4's series The Living World and Nature, as well as his own short series, several of which are available from the BBC website. He is a co-presenter with Philippa Forrester of World on the Move, a BBC Radio 4 series that started in 2008 on migration in the animal kingdom. He is active in the West Midland Bird Club, Worcestershire Wildlife Trust, and for the Worcestershire Biological Records Centre, which all cover the area around his home town of Stourbridge.

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In 2009, he was one of the first recipients of the British Trust for Ornithology's Dilys Breese Medal, at a ceremony at the House of Lords.

His drawings of birds often appear in, and on the cover of, West Midland Bird Club Bulletins.

He participated in a bird race as part of the 2010 series of the BBC's Springwatch.

On 2 June 2015, Westwood presented the first in a 25-week series, Natural Histories, made in partnership with London's Natural History Museum. The 30-minute programmes set out to tell 'the stories of 25 species that have managed to get under the skin of human society and change the way we see the world.'

Education

He studied at King Edward's School, Birmingham.

Radio programmes

  • Behind The Taverna
  • Land Lines
  • A Tomb With A View
  • Living World (some episodes only)
  • Nature (some episodes only)
  • A Guide to Garden Birds
  • Saving Species
  • Natural Histories (from 2 June 2015), 11:00am Tuesdays, BBC Radio 4
  • Sample articles

  • Worcestershire Record: Hornet
  • Worcestershire Record: Big Hoverflies in Stourbridge
  • References

    Brett Westwood Wikipedia