Wildlife Artists on Massingham Heath
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Wildlife Artists on Massingham Heath

B2Upper-intermediateMay 7, 202623 min

Martha Kearney is in Norfolk to walk the heathland that is being returned to its ancient grassland habitat by Olly Birkbeck. The Society of Wildlife Artists is holding a year-long residency documenting the recovery of the land and the flora and fauna. Martha meets sculptor Harriet Mead, field painter of birds Darren Woodhead and painter Kim Atkinson to see how they observe and reflect the natural world. The Society of Wildlife Artists: https://swla.co.uk/ Producer: Beth O'Dea

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Just listen to the birdsong on this beautiful sunny spring morning in West Norfolk. I've

artists. I'm with Ollie Burbeck whose land this is and whose dream it's been

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. The Just listen to the birdsong on this beautiful sunny spring morning in West Norfolk. I've come to Massingham Heath to find out why this landscape has inspired a group of wildlife

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artists. I'm with Ollie Burbeck whose land this is and whose dream it's been hasn't it Ollie to turn this land back into what it once was. Yeah I guess it was like I've always had a romantic attachment to this landscape since I was a kid. My dad used to always talk about it and take us up here for picnics

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because it's got this otherworldly sort of slightly eerie feeling about it atmosphere about it which felt like a departure from my sort of familiar trappings of my childhood. And then when I took over the baton and started farming here 10 years ago, it was more to that that I turned my attention rather than the farming side.

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