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Fiona Stafford: The myth of the unchanging countryside

Professor Fiona Stafford joins James Fisher to talk about the constantly changing landscape around us.

We tend to think of the British countryside as rural idyll, a patchwork of fields, farms and forests, rolling on through time until rudely interrupted by the building of a new housing estate, a dual-carriageway or some other man-man incursion.

But the landscape around us is changing constantly, has always been doing so, and always will. Fiona Stafford, professor of…

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