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Tim Birkhead and Helen Macdonald on humanity's long relationship with birds.

Tim Birkhead and Helen Macdonald share their experiences of observing birds and their pick of writing inspired by birds. Tonight's concert includes Song of the Nightingale.

Helen Macdonald, author of H Is For Hawk and Tim Birkhead, Professor of Behaviour and Evolution at the University of Sheffield and author of Bird Sense, share their experiences of observing birds closely and their pick of writing inspired by real and fictional birds.  Professor Birkhead’s recent research has been into the adaptive significance of egg shape in birds and Helen Macdonald won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award for her writing about the year she spent training a goshawk. The presenter is New Generation Thinker Lucy Powell who researches birds in British 18th-century literature.  Tonight's Proms concert broadcast ends with a performance of Stravinsky's Song of the Nightingale.  

Producer: Jacqueline Smith

Originally recorded with an audience at BBC Proms on 26 July 2018.

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