Daisy Dunn

Floods you with fascinating facts: Trees A Crowd reviewed

Plus: a short Radio 4 doc on the former bathing area of the River Cherwell in Oxford, where dons, vicars and milliners used to tumble about in the nude

The wild crab apple of Britain, Malus sylvestris, and Malus sieversii, an apple native to the mountains of Kazakhstan, are the ancestors of almost all domestic apples we eat today. Image: Archive Photos / Getty Images
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  • Trees A Crowd

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  • New Storytellers: The Bathing Place

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