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5 posts about Environment on this blog
Friday 22 February 2013, 16:22
Proud Essex boy Billy Bragg uses his poetic licence to fashion an homage to the tarmacked beauty of the A13. A road which heads east from Whitechapel in the heart of the East End alongside the Thames for forty miles until it hits the wide sands of Shoeburyness.
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Friday 15 February 2013, 12:04
Melvyn Bragg discusses this week's In Our Time about Ice Ages.
Monday 21 December 2009, 09:35

Editor's note. Sarah Mukherjee, Radio 4's Environment Correspondent, was in Copenhagen for Cop15's messy finale. She wrote this sketch from the corridors outside the official meeting rooms as the formal agenda fell apart. As you'll have read, things didn't go exactly as she - or anyone else - expected...
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Thursday 24 September 2009, 08:00
Drive through the southern Highlands between Braemar and Pitlochry at this time of year and they look pretty bleak. After thirty miles of bleached heather it comes as a shock to see a splash of colour on the horizon. Drive closer and you come to a couple of acres of luxuriant vegetation on an exposed...
Friday 21 August 2009, 16:33
There are many advantages to working in August.
True, while many of our colleagues (and listeners) are battling with dilemmas like "white or red?", "pool or beach?" and "if I eat anything else for breakfast, will I still be able to get into my swimsuit?", I am trawling through websites, specialist journals...