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Radio 4,05 Mar 2008,28 mins

SeriesSeries 7

Myxomatosis

In Living Memory

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Chris Ledgard recalls the outbreak of the early 1950s which almost wiped out the country's entire rabbit population, to the consternation of animal lovers but to the relief of farmers desperate to protect their crops.

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