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The Mendips with Professor Alice Roberts
Clare walks with TV anthropologist and academic Alice Roberts in the Mendips in Somerset.
On a hot day, Clare and Alice Roberts walk from the village of Draycott in Somerset up through the Draycott Sleights Nature Reserve with views opening out across the Bristol Channel to Wales and across the Somerset Levels to Glastonbury Tor.
Alice says she finds the ancient landscape fascinating and imagines the inhabitants of past centuries who would have lived on the small settlements on the Levels.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
Last on
Sat 19 Sep 202006:07
BBC Radio 4
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- Thu 17 Sep 202015:00BBC Radio 4
- Sat 19 Sep 202006:07BBC Radio 4
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