Alfie and Charlie at Breakfast

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• World War One At Home

  Discover incredible stories about life in Newcastle during WW1

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• Cows that 'elate the heart'

  A hotel night watchman comes to the moor every day. To him, the cows are precious.

  Duration: 0:54

• Nitroglycerin on the moor

  The Town Moor witnessed a bizarre and devastating explosion in the 19th Century.

  Duration: 2:59

• Mallard duck

  Mallard ducks are so common in Britain it is easy to overlook how beautiful the male is.

  Duration: 0:41

• Lakeside echolocation

  A Daubenton's Bat has company as it hunts for insects over Exhibition Park lake.

  Duration: 1:41
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