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Radio 4,14 May 2017,8 mins

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Singer Will Young presents five wonderful stories of how birdsong has touched people's lives. Folk musician and Mercury Prize nominee Sam Lee considers the nightingale, Worcestershire lawyer Mat Waddington recounts an encounter with a long tailed tit tapping at his window, eight-year-old Gabi Mann recalls how she became friends with American crows in her suburban garden in Seattle, David Lindo – otherwise known as the urban birder – recalls his first encounter with the ring ouzel on his local patch near to Wormwood Scrubs in London and Fermanagh based bird blogger Dara McAnulty talks about the whooper swan.

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