Puffin Patrol – BBC Wild about Nature Week
Posted on: October 6th, 2025
We are delighted to announce our newest documentary ‘Puffin Patrol’ is now available to watch on BBC iPlayer from today, 6th October 2025. Released as part of the BBC’s wild about nature Week we follow Caritas and Dis, two young islanders preparing for this year’s Puffin Patrol.
From watching puffin parents return with beaks full of sand eels, to exploring puffin burrows and dancing through island festivals, their summer is filled with adventure, laughter, and responsibility.
BBC Media Center Article
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/bbc-wild-about-nature-week
To celebrate the launch of the BBC’s latest natural history series, Hamza’s Hidden Wild Isles, presenters will be drawing attention to the joys of nature in October.
From Monday 6 to Sunday 12 October, and coinciding with World Mental Health Day (Friday 10 October), the BBC will be exploring the many ways audiences can reconnect with and reap the benefits of the natural world around them.
Programmes across the BBC are getting involved in showcasing the joys of nature all week.
The BBC’s Chief Content Officer, Kate Phillips, says: “I’m really looking forward to seeing all areas of BBC content unite to celebrate our first ever Wild About Nature Week. From Morning Live to The Archers, there will be something for all our audiences to enjoy to across the week-long celebration, and we hope it encourages everyone to get stuck into the nature around them.”
For the first time in its five-year history, Gethin Jones, Helen Skelton and team will be hosting the first ever Morning Live outside broadcast on Tuesday 7 October, filmed live from an urban nature paradise in Central Manchester.
The team will be joined on-location by the nation’s best-loved TV experts: Dr Xand will be exploring the science behind why nature benefits mental health and investigating the power of sunlight in combatting Seasonal Affective Disorder. The Traitors’ Jaz Singh sharing his surprising love of angling and Springwatch’s Jack Baddams uncovering the world of nocturnal creatures in our urban areas.
CBBC will debut an extraordinary 28 min documentary My Life: Puffin Patrol, where two young Icelanders rescue lost pufflings, who get stranded after taking a wrong turn, mistaking the lights of the town for the Moon. Caritas and Diss try and help as many as possible back into the Atlantic, vital conservation work as puffin numbers are declining worldwide.
