Little Hare

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Raising Hare is Chloe Dalton’s memoir of caring for an abandoned leveret – and how the bond that grows between them changes her perspective on life. Lockdown leads Chloe away from her demanding London job as a political advisor and back to the countryside of her childhood, where she stumbles across a lone baby hare - defenceless on an open country road. Against her better judgment, she feels compelled to take the tiny creature in and give it a chance at survival. In the weeks and months that follow, a bond grows between hare and human as Chloe cares for the animal and prepares for it to return to the wild - the outcome she had always planned. The story grants us a rare insight into the lives of these elusive creatures, once thriving in the UK and now increasingly dwindling as their habitats recede and man-made threats advance. In this second episode, the leveret is fast growing into a little hare, each day bringing a new discovery for Dalton about the habits, history, and necessary care of these mysterious animals. She also finds out, to her own exhaustion, just how fast a hare can run. Read by Lisa Faulkner Produced and abridged by Jo Rowntree and Heather Dempsey Sound Design by Dan King A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4 Illustration by Denise Nestor This is an EcoAudio certified production. Find all the latest books at the bottom of the Sounds homepage. Just click on the Books collection.