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The Countryside in Autumn

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Introduced by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

Robert Powell is shown the harvesting machinery of 100 years ago by Martyn Brown, curator of the Abbey Barn Museum, Glastonbury. Kenneth Cooke, former head keener at Weston Park, Shropshire, recalls the pleasures and problems of a gamekeepers life in the shooting season.
Mollie Harris admires the work of her local Oxfordshire taxidermist.
Is the glory of Britain's autumn foliage in danger from neglect?
Keith Allan talks to John James of the Woodland Trust. Eric Simms watches the birds of the mid-Wales coast at the RSPB reserve at Ynys Hir. Martin Muncaster goes salmon fishing on the River Tweed with Lord Home.

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Contributors

Introduced By:
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Introduced By:
Robert Powell
Unknown:
Martyn Brown
Talks:
Keith Allan
Unknown:
John James
Unknown:
Eric Simms
Producer:
John Haslam
Source: Radio Times

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