Genre Factual Country United Kingdom Home station BBC Radio 4 | Running time 90 seconds Language(s) English | |
Hosted by Various BBC wildlife presenters | ||
Tweet of the Day is a British radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on weekdays at 05.58am from Monday to Friday. It is also broadcast on Sundays, when it is broadcast at a later time of day. The first episode was broadcast on 6 May 2013 and featured the song of the male common cuckoo presented by David Attenborough. The series won the Broadcasting Press Guild's award for radio programme of the year in 2014. The series was scheduled for one year, and by the end of the year 266 different bird sounds were featured. The series is being repeated.
Contents
The format of an episode is a short programme of 90 seconds featuring the song or sounds of a British bird or a bird chorus and a few facts about each bird described by a BBC wildlife presenter.
Presenters
David Attenborough, Miranda Krestovnikoff, Steve Backshall, Michaela Strachan, Brett Westwood, Bill Oddie, Chris Packham, John Aitchison, Kate Humble, Liz Bonnin and Martin Hughes-Games.
Sound recordists
Chris Watson, Gary Moore, Geoff Sample, and Simon Elliott.