The Unofficial Countryside Written and introduced by Richard Mabey London... most of us think it's the ultimate in concrete waste-lands. Not so! There's a kestrel nesting in a drainpipe on the -side of a furniture factory in Tottenham; badgers being fed in a suburban garden: black redstarts breeding in a half-demolished gasworks.
These are some of the stars in the story which RICHARD MABEY tells us of London's natural history - story of how wildlife has adapted itself to man's interference. It's a story that's set in the unlikely jungles of docks, reservoirs and canals; of railway banks, factories, churchyards and sewage farms ... Richard Mabey shows us how astonishingly rich in wildlife is London's ' Unofficial Countryside.'
Producer DAVID COBHAM
Series editors ANTHONY ISAACS and CHRISTOPHER PARSONS (Bristol)
The green underground: pages 50-53