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Radio 3,16 Jan 2022,14 mins

The Pigeons at the British Museum

Sunday Feature

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New Generation Thinker Will Abberley reconsiders Richard Jefferies' The Pigeons at the British Museum and argues that an essay written in 1884 should be essential reading today. He talks to Andrew Blechman, the author of Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird, and to nature writer Richard Mabey. The reader is Chris Jackson.

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