AL Kennedy reads her short story inspired by coral she saw in the Natural History Museum. A professor remembers her younger self, and how she went diving underwater for coral. Show more
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Meg Rosoff, author of How I Live Now, reads her short story inspired by the Natural History Museum. She imagines a dodo brought back to life through extracted DNA and what ensues. Show more
Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine, reads his story inspired by the Natural History Museum. It's about the world's most powerful microscope and what it can see... and what it can't. Show more
Lionel Shriver reads her original story inspired by the Natural History Museum. A modern woman falls for a man who has the qualities of our remaining genetic close relatives. Show more
Natural Histories: Short Stories
Series 2
Something That Seems Simple but Has a Million Eyes by Evie Wyld
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Evie Wyld's original story is inspired by a visit to the Natural History Museum. It is about two sisters trying to talk to each other. And clams. The reader is Hermione Norris. Show more
Mark Haddon's story vividly imagines the world of the neanderthals and their fierce struggle to survive. Inspired by a visit to the Natural History Museum. Show more
In Fay Weldon's story, beauty queen and trophy wife Sally Anne comes face to face with her true self in the Natural History Museum, in the form of a pygmy seahorse. Show more