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Natural Histories: Snail

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Snail

05/09/2017

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Brett Westwood explores our complex relationship with the snail.

We have used snails to predict the true course of love, cure warts and smooth out our wrinkles. But our relationship with them is not always amicable, as Brett discovers.

Snails have earned a terrible reputation among gardeners and growers as voracious pests - and yet these slow-moving molluscs have inspired both artists and writers, been made famous by a magic roundabout and provided us with food and sustenance for millennia. We have used snails to predict the true course of love, cure warts and smooth out our wrinkles (with varying degrees of success). As Brett Westwood discovers our relationship with them is multi-faceted and complex and so rather than evict them from your garden perhaps we should show them a little more respect. Producer Sarah Blunt.

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