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Between the Ears: Crex Crex
4 Extra Debut. Poet-in-Residence Daljit Nagra chooses Between the Ears with Kathleen Jamie, about the Hebridean bird the Corncrake. From January 2004.
BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry with 'Between the Ears: Crex, Crex', featuring a poem to a special bird.
Kathleen Jamie, poet and birder, travels to the Isle of Coll to hear male corncrakes as they "crex crex" their way through the Hebridean summer night. She enlists the help of the birds themselves, the island's RSPB warden Sarah Money and the Coll Drummers.
Producer: Tim Dee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2004.
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