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Open Country: Mistletoe

Mistletoe

25/12/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, Mistletoe

Owen Sheers visits the annual Mistletoe Festival at Tenbury Wells.

Owen Sheers celebrates mistletoe in all its forms at the annual Mistletoe Festival in the Worcestershire town of Tenbury Wells.

Owen Sheers is in Worcestershire to learn about the Druidic custom of gathering in the mistletoe.  Each year it is harvested and blessed at the Mistletoe Festival in the town of Tenbury Wells.

Producer: Maggie Ayre.

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