That's Just Wild
Steve Backshall, Lizzie Daly and Sarah Roberts bring you a wildly entertaining nature show filled with adventure, behind-the-scenes stories, and fascinating facts. Think: unexpected encounters, jaw-dropping science, and nature like you’ve never heard it before.
Every Tuesday join adventurer, explorer and broadcaster Steve Backshall, wildlife biologist Lizzie Daly, and journalist Sarah Roberts as they dive deep into the wonders of the natural world. From braving Arctic extremes to swimming with sharks, each episode begins with a bold superlative—Flamboyant, Freezing, Venomous—and unfolds into their remarkable tales of the wild.
Then, every Friday, it’s your turn. Our Q&A episodes tackle your most need-to-know nature questions—from how not to become bear food to how long is an elephant’s trunk?
Because the world is wild, its wonders are endless—and we’re here to tell the stories that prove it.
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Produced in the wild by Fresh Air.
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 30
- Years Active
- 2025
LIVE: Osprey, Sharks, and the Loch Ness Monster
Can sharks smell period blood? Is wildlife conservation effective? What happened to the Loch Ness Monster?
Steve Backshall, Lizzie Daly and Sarah Roberts are LIVE from Cheltenham Science Festival... W…
Q&A: Hippos, Bees, and Underrated Rats
Did you know hippos and whales share a common ancestor?
Steve Backshall, Lizzie Daly, and Sarah Roberts take on your questions:
Why do rats get a bad rep (meet the real Pinky and the Brain)? Do animals…
Slimy: Hagfish, Banana Slugs, and Vampire Squids from Hell
Vampire squids create shimmering decoys, scientists defrost a 45,000 year old worm, and banana slug mucus can numb toothache.
Steve Backshall, Lizzie Daly and Sarah Roberts slide into this week's slip…
Q&A: Black Widows, Blue Whales, and Orcas wearing Salmon hats
“When the jaws open wide, and there’s more jaws inside, that’s a Moray” wins the prize for the most creatively asked question in this week's Q&A ep.
Why do Moray Eels have two sets of jaws? is not the…
Colourful: Birds of Paradise, Binturong and Dancing Dinosaurs
Why is blue the hardest colour to produce? Why are bright colours rarely a mistake? And do albino snakes get sunburn?
This very colourful episode is recorded on location at Longleat Safari Park, where…
Q&A: Parasites, Giraffe Necks, and Shark Attacks
Hypodermic syringe spines spurting venom a foot in the air, a thirty metre long parasite, and optimal giraffe neck length are just some of the topics covered in this Q&A episode.
But that’s not all.
St…
Venomous: Bullet Ant Rituals, Box Jellyfish, and Wandering Spiders
What is venom? How does it work? And how do different species use it?
Wildlife legends Steve Backshall, Lizzie Daly and Sarah Roberts are back with a bite this week, in a truly venomous episode of Tha…
Q&A: Milking Ants, Silver Foxes and Pigeon Top Trumps
What do milking ants, silver foxes and pigeon Top Trumps have in common? They form the answers to some of the questions in our very first That's Just Wild: Q&A episode.
Between them Steve Backshall, L…
Freezing: Narwhals, Polar Bears and Walrus Songs
What do you get when a polar bear mates with a grizzly, a walrus starts making music, and a scientist decides to freeze themselves on purpose? One wild first episode!
Hosted by wildlife legends Steve …
That's Just Wild: Launching June 3rd
Welcome to That’s Just Wild. Launching on June 3rd.
A wildly entertaining nature show filled with adventure, behind-the-scenes stories, and fascinating facts, told by the people who’ve seen it all fo…