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A Tale of Harvest Festival

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Across the country, churches are being decorated with chrysanthemums and cornsheaves, marrows and swedes, in preparation for Harvest Festival. But was this "ancienttradition" actually the invention of an eccentric Victorian vicar? Paul Heiney travels to Cornwall to unravel the tale. Producer SallyFlatman

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