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Country Focus: Quaking Bogs and the Town Crier

Quaking Bogs and the Town Crier

BBC Radio Wales - Country Focus, Quaking Bogs and the Town Crier

We visit Crymlyn's quaking bog and meet Montgomery's town crier.

We're on shaky ground as we visit one of Wales' quaking bogs and we meet the Montgomeryshire town crier proclaiming for the last 20 years - even through a pandemic

A memorial woodland to remember those lost to Covid - but what impact will it have on the countryside? How businesses in Ceredigion plan to make the rural county an attractive place for young people to live and work.  We visit the largest of the last remaining quaking bogs in Wales, Crymlyn Bog on the outskirts of Swansea..... home to the great fen raft spider!  It's National Nest Box week and Starlings need our help.  And finally, the woman celebrating two decades as the town crier in Montgomery.

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