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That Strange Bird, a Heritage Cruise and Curry

Rachael Garside investigates strange bird sounds in Builth Wells, takes a coastal cruise and looks for Wales's best curry.

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The strange bird - have you heard it before? We try and find an answer for our listener who contacted us from Builth Wells saying that everyday they've been hearing a strange bird call that nobody in the area has heard before.

A perhaps more familiar bird sound is that of the Yellowhammer but their numbers are declining. We meet the RSPB man who is testing out a theory that the reason for their decline is the intensification of agriculture.

Gone Fishing - we hear how there's a desperate shortage of services to help former military veterans readjust to civilian life, particularly in rural areas. The Welsh mental health charity Change Step offers a peer mentoring service for former soldier suffering with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other mental health problems like depression. Rachael Garside joins some veterans for a day's sea-angling on Poppit Sands, near Cardigan

Also at sea - the heritage coastal cruiser M.V. Balmoral is a classic passenger ship built in 1949 but she's been laid up in dry dock for the last 3 years. But now thanks to a huge effort by enthusiastic and devoted volunteers she's back at sea. And if you would like to catch the cruiser she sails from various points around our Welsh coast - details on MV Excursions

And we head to the rural town of Corwen for curry - of the many hundreds of Indian restaurants across Wales, when the judges of the Welsh Curry House of the Year, 2015 competition chose "Abul's Spice" they cited the impact that a successful restaurant can have on rural community like Corwen's, particularly when it comes to the area's economy.

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