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Last broadcast on Sun, 16 Oct 2011, 08:50 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
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Will Self praises the beauty of wind turbines and says protests against them spring from a misconceived idyllic view of our already man-made landscape. "It would seem to me that most of those who energetically campaign against the planting of wind farms in their bosky vale do so not out of a profound appreciation of the dew-jewelled web of life, but merely as spectators who wish the show that they've paid admission for to go as advertised."
Producer: Sheila Cook.
A Point of View: In praise of wind turbines
The countryside is often a man-made landscape, not a natural idyll, and wind turbines are just part of that tradition, writes Will Self.
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Fri 14 Oct 201120:50
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Sun 16 Oct 201108:50
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