Valleys
Sarah Raven explores Cretan hillsides and the lush valley floor, looking for wild tulips, and Adam Nicolson recounts episodes of British derring-do and their consequences.
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British soldiers assisting the Cretan resistance in the Second Word War called the Amari Valley in the centre of the island, Lotus Land. Sarah Raven botanises her way through the scrubby hillsides and down to the lush valley floor looking for wild tulips. Adam Nicolson recounts the remarkable episodes of derring-do that the British got up to and their awful consequences. (Rpt)
Producer: Tim Dee.
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