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Rebuilding the Ark: Animal Night

on BBC Radio 3

Jeremy Harding presents live discussion, documentary, and new poetry exploring human cultural entanglement with wild animals. Guests include lemur biologist Alison Jolly , writer and explorer Redmond O'Hanlon , conservationist Nigel Collar and nature writer Richard Mabey. Plus the wildest sounds of the planet from Jean-Claude Roche.
Twitching New bird poems by Andrew Motion.
7.45 Edward 0 Wilson An interview with the ant biologist and conservationist.
8.30 Noye, Noye
The Ark rebuilt by poet Peter Reading.
8.40 Wolves and Wolfishness Jeremy
Harding explores the most iconic of animals - the first to be domesticated and one that still provokes strong reactions for and against it.
9.30 A Peeled Wand Poet James Lasdun watches a beaver do its thing.
9.45 Rosamund Purcell A photographer of mounted and preserved dead animals goes in search of a whale vertebra in a disused missile silo near Cambridge, Massachusetts.
10.05 The Big Hum Paul Farley 's poem eavesdrops on the sounds of the wild.
10.15 John Gray An interview with the author of Straw Dogs: a radical thinker who challenges the notional separation of humans from the animal world.
10.55 We Will Have None of Them
A poem about unicorns by Lavinia Greenlaw. EMAIL: rebuildingtheark@bbc.co.uk Producer Tim Dee

Contributors

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Jeremy Harding
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Alison Jolly
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Redmond O'Hanlon
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Nigel Collar
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Richard Mabey.
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Jean-Claude Roche.
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Andrew Motion.
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Peter Reading.
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Wolfishness Jeremy
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James Lasdun
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Rosamund Purcell
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Paul Farley
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John Gray
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Lavinia Greenlaw.
Producer:
Tim Dee

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