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Wednesday, 2nd January 2008

On the Estuary (Radio 4), Woman's Hour (Radio 4)

If you’ve been waking up at 3 a.m. after yet another nightmare about climate change, there’s been a well-timed antidote on Radio Four this week. On The Estuary (made by the wildlife team, Chris Watson as sound recordist, Mike Dilger as naturalist and Stephen Head as the landscape historian), we heard how The Wash on the east coast of England has ebbed and flowed through the centuries. Maybe we are entering a new meteorological phase where sea levels will rise and what were once silty fields and verdant pastures will disappear under water. But what’s new? The estuary of the fenland rivers has changed radically over the last 12,000 years since the icecap melted and the North Sea became a huge tundra plain. We humans are as nothing; mere witnesses to natural changes over which we have no control.

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