Stephen Coates
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first heard May 2026
last heard 14 May
Stephen Coates’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The spectacular central hall of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington in London.
This museum is one of the UK's most celebrated treasures.
This building is full of natural wonders.
We didn't bump into the world-famous naturalist David Attenborough.
This is his audio guide to the museum.
Since its opening in 1881, the museum's collections have grown to around 80 million specimens.
Each of them enables us to understand the natural world, the way it began, how it developed, and what its future may be.
Over 7 million people visit from all over the world every year.
Above your head in the vast arched ceiling, elegant paintings in red, gold and green depict a wide variety of plants from across the globe.
As you look around, you will see that the building is enlivened by sculptures of all kinds of animal, some living, some prehistoric.
from imposing feline gargoyles on the roof to mischievous monkeys clambering up the pillars.
But there's another part of the museum, a separate building that the public doesn't see, that's just as important.
It's the Natural History Museum's store, hidden to protect the collection.
This is a research collection.
It is unique in its form and its function.
It's a resource for the entire global scientific community.
There's nothing to identify this industrial building on a quiet side street.
You could walk straight past and never guess.
But step through an unmarked door and then an airlock and you're met by a truly astonishing sight.
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