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We say goodbye by all piling into the studio and letting everyone do a story they've always wanted to. There will be mosquitos, underground Paris, demilitarized zone Cyprus, a quiz, and some lies about lizard people. Enjoy. Love yawl. Byee x

Well, the proper finale is next week so in this penultimate show we thought we'd repeat the Goodbye show. Although it's very late and I am still in the office making this so part of me wishes we'd just made a new show. Still, this features a disappearing dolphin, house and town. What is not to like? Marnie x

A glutton’s delight! We’ve got manna from heaven, or at least, food from rooftops. We have a composer who’s made music from a pig and a nose-to-tail chef who will make something delicious from the rest of it. Moving to undelicious, how does raw pickled songbird grab you? We unwrap a Cypriot delicacy that is threatening a species.

We check into the airport environment. How come flying used to be glamorous and now it's more like being a herded animal? We meet the people trying to lift your airport experience to the next level - come fly with us.

Abandoned buildings, explosive underwater wrecks, and what to do about the small problem of nuclear waste. What we leave behind, why, and what to do about it.

Summertime. And the living is easy. Or is it? From mobile pool parties and turning your backyard garden into a farm to scanning the horizon for forest fires, we take a look at a great deal of hard work that revolves around warmer weather.

Things that come full circle. How an international explorer found the glamour of travelling in his own backyard, and a man's Harley-Davidson, lost in the Japanese tsunami of 2011, is found - on the other side of the Pacific.

The big comeback. In Europe that means the return of the sturgeon to their natural habitat, and in Siberia one man battles to return the wilderness back 15,000 years, minus the wooly mammoths, sadly.

We uncover the unexpected. From the man who discovered an island that appeared in the middle of nowhere, to bike lanes that sprung up out of the blue. Stories about some delightful surprises.

Ice, ice baby and bucketloads of the stuff. We meet the ice obsessives, people for whom ice is their job, their way of life, their art. Making music with it, sculpting it or just immersing your body in it: ice is too cool for school.

Stories of sharing. We explain why not to look a gift horse in the mouth (especially when there's free energy at stake) and meet the people turning every bit of green space in their town - ditches, roundabouts, abandoned parking lots - into glorious edible gardens where the fruit and vegetables are for the taking.

We bring you stories from people who've gone above and beyond the basics, in one case, putting themselves through backbreaking hard work. Hear why, from people whose appreciation of this planet has led them to go the extra mile.

We go all arborophile, or tree-hugger, as we celebrate the joys of tree. What we use them for, how to climb them, how to chuck them out of an aeroplane... In-tree-gued? Listen to the show for more bad puns and all things tree.

Everything is not as it seems, as we explore the artificial world. From robots that plough the fields then scatter, to man-made coral reefs. Faking it for nature.

Necessary evils, like the tar sands in Canada. The fact is, we could use the oil, but is it worth the obliteration of a once-pristine forest landscape? Hear from a woman who treats her painful arthritis with yet more pain, and the man who kills rabbits, to save an ecosystem.

Cunning plans that try to change the way we do things. From using goats as lawnmowers, or cocaine as fertilizer, and making pate out of squirrels, we examine people who take problems and turn them into solutions.

This week on Earth Beat... things that are going places. From rubber duckies sailing the ocean seas for a couple of decades, to the world’s most gruelling marathon and the first man to walk around the world, we’ll take you places you’ve never been.

Fighting talk from the front line - from rats trained to sniff out landmines, to why creating compost on an army base in Iraq can be a bit of a bummer. Plus, restoring the Iraqi marshlands after Saddam, and visiting the Western Front, nearly 100 years later.

Things that turn up in the unlikeliest of places. Like sea salt full of prescription drugs, or pesticides in the Arctic. And the man searching the Amazon for a tribe he’s not allowed to contact. Foreign bodies, in all their forms.

We examine the cost of a full belly. We look at clever new ways of putting stuff on our plate, protecting the traditional techniques for feeding ourselves, and why every third mouthful we eat is thanks to the humble bee. Food, glorious food, on Earth Beat.