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DetailsOriginal Format: BetaSP Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 24 mins Credits: Jessica Holm, Chris Sutcliffe, Andy Greenwood, Paul Gunn, Ron Gunn, Bill Hughes, Stuart Dunbar, Dave Aston, Mel Goodsal, Coreen Harvey, Alistair Batey, Peter Johnson, Donna Heeps, William Moult, Chris Potter, Amanda Baxter, Charles Bowden Genre: TV Programming
Subject: Rural Life Media/Communications Environment/Nature Arts/Culture
Summary An edition of the Tyne Tees Television rural life programme Up Country presented by Jessica Holm. In this edition we meet the Florence Nightingale of the hedgehog world, Elaine Drewery who runs 'Hedgehog Care' from her home in the village of Authorpe in Lincolnshire. This if followed by a visit to Newcastle University to see one of the largest collections of ferns in the Europe and a trip to Quarrington Quarry in County Durham looking for 250-million-year-old fossils. In the final report William Moult meets North Pennine farmer and wildlife filmmaker George Wall to learn more about the many types of moorland birds he likes to film.
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An edition of the Tyne Tees Television rural life programme Up Country presented by Jessica Holm. In this edition we meet the Florence Nightingale of the hedgehog world, Elaine Drewery who runs 'Hedgehog Care' from her home in the village of Authorpe in Lincolnshire. This if followed by a visit to Newcastle University to see one of the largest collections of ferns in the Europe and a trip to Quarrington Quarry in County Durham looking for 250-million-year-old fossils. In the final...