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The World About Us: The Flowering of Britain

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on BBC Two England

An exploration with Richard Mabey

Why are birthwort, milkwort and the primrose so named? Why do we find sheets of bluebells in some woods and not in others? Why do poppies suddenly appear on newly turned ground?

Richard Mabey guides us through the countryside from the Dales to Devon, from Kent to the New Forest. He tells us a new and intriguing story about the 5,000-year-old partnership between ourselves and our flora, and how we've taken them into our medicine chests, gardens, into children's stories, adult myths and religion,

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Presenter:
Richard Mabey
Series Editor:
Anthony Isaacs
Series Editor:
Peter Jones
Source: Radio Times

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