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A Year with Gilbert White

by Jenny Uglow

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · October 19, 2025

Maps – lost, secret and revealing

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A celebration of the country curate Gilbert White, who in 1781 charted the natural world around him — from weather observation to bird migration, the sex lives of snails and the harvest — creating a natural map of his Hampshire village.

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