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Paul Evans on the Carrion Crow

On the eve of Halloween, the silence of a graveyard is broken by the raucous calls of an inky black Crow "Throwing her voice as if coughing up a bone" as writer Paul Evans encounters a crow in a cemetery.

Producer: Sarah Blunt
Photograph: Derek Wood.

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Tue 31 Oct 2023 05:58
BBC Radio 4

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