EPISODE · May 21, 2017 · 9 MIN
Hanna Tuulikki
from Tweet of the Week · host BBC Radio 4
Finnish-English musician and bird lover Hanna Tuulikki introduces five stories of birds.London chef and restaurant owner Cyrus Todiwala discusses his love of the city's house sparrow. Bristol-based bird scientist Peter Rock talks about his decades of research into urban lesser black backed gulls. Young conservationist and ‘Birdgirl’ Mya Rose Craig recalls the excitement of seeing a black browed albatross in Cornwall at the age of seven. Photographer John McPherson tells a tale of an encounter with a ptarmigan. Val Thompson describes the comfort she derives from seeing pink footed geese in Norfolk, a place she visited with her late husband.
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Finnish-English musician and bird lover Hanna Tuulikki introduces five stories of birds.London chef and restaurant owner Cyrus Todiwala discusses his love of the city's house sparrow. Bristol-based bird scientist Peter Rock talks about his decades of research into urban lesser black backed gulls. Young conservationist and ‘Birdgirl’ Mya Rose Craig recalls the excitement of seeing a black browed albatross in Cornwall at the age of seven. Photographer John McPherson tells a tale of an encounter with a ptarmigan. Val Thompson describes the comfort she derives from seeing pink footed geese in Norfolk, a place she visited with her late husband.
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