A celebration of the nature diaries kept by Radio 4 listeners that came to light after the broadcast of The First Cuckoo and the Last Swallow in August 2005.
Dave Thompson talks about his snow diary in which for 40 years he has recorded the snow fall in Counteshorpe near Leicester. Farmer Russell pollinger kept a diary of his
Devon farm from the first day in 1946. Simon Ginn in Perthshire discovered his great-grandfather's journal in the drawer of an old desk; it contains the dates of the first sighting of the cuckoo dating back to the 1880s. The information is being used to help Tim Sparks , environmental scientist at the Department of Ecology and Hydrology, put together a picture of Britain's changing climate. Presented by Mark Whitaker. Producer Janet Graves