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Living World: Polecats

26/04/2015

Polecats

BBC Radio 4 - Living World, Polecats

Chris Packham relives a Living World programme from 1996 about the secretive polecat.

Chris Packham relives programmes from the Living World archives. In this programme recorded in 1996, Lionel Kelleway joins John Messenger in search of this secretive character.

Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World archives.

Victorian Britain saw animals like the polecat persecuted almost to extinction surviving only in a few isolated upland areas of Wales. By the time in 1996 that Lionel Kelleway joined Johnny Messenger on a farm in mid-Wales farm, polecat numbers had begun to recover. It's a fact of life when studying shy mammals that most of the time is spent grubbing around for the signs of activity rather than seeing the animal itself. But for this Living World Johnny has brought Lionel to possibly the best place to see a polecat in Britain.

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