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Radio 4,05 Nov 2017,8 mins

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Naturalist, writer and poet Paul Evans presents five special episodes for Halloween, beginning with his story of the carrion crow, followed by Jeremy Deller and not a bird, but a bad story, followed by three more spooktacular birds by Paul, the barn owl in the decaying carcass of a house, the agile merlin our smallest raptor and finally the the largest corvid of them all, the raven.

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