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Peter Snow concludes the series in which each programme's stories come from the pages of an archive newspaper.
Required reading after Christmas lunch in 1897 - the New Year edition of the popular Strand
Magazine. This week, the history of messages in bottles; how marathon stilt-walking began near
Bordeaux; and are the classic examples of topiary pictured in the magazine still to be seen in the gardens of Levens Hall in Cumbria? Producer Andrew Green

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