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No. 1: Birdland
CONTENT
Interview with Len Hill, founder of Birdland, Bourton
on the Water
No. 2: Royston Scroggs Interview with Royston Scroggs, nest boxer for
Banbury Ornithological Society.
No. 3: Gravel
Report of conference at Rewley House. Interviews with
Extraction in the
Barry Cunliffe, Institute of Archaeology; John Jordan,
Thames Valley
technical adviser to the Sand and Gravel Assoc.; Mrs.
Ruth Geary, Lecturer in environmental studies; Bruce
Campbell, BBONT.
No. 4: British Field
British Field Sports Society 9th Annual Fair, Shotover.
Sports Society
Interviews with 1) Jacqueline Wakeford, making a fly;
2) Col. Charles Spencer, butterfly and moth collector;
3) Rex Hudson, British Waterfowl Assoc. 4) Ron
Wood, working dogs competition 5) Mrs. C.C. Gard,
working dogs comp. organiser; 6) Walter Didcot,
founder Cotswold Rangers - anti-litter group.
No. 5: Badger
John Simpson goes badger watching with Ken Jackson
Watching
and Bruce Cambell in North Oxfordshire.
No. 6: Water divining
Interview with John Sawyer, White Road, Cowley,
dowser.
No. 7: Horse Fair, Stow Stow on the Wold Horse Fair. Interviews with 1)
on the Wold
Leonard Hankes, auctioneer - Taylor and Fletcher; 2)
Hywel Davies, S. Wales, riding stable owner; 3) Bill
Mason, N. Warwicks., farmer selling shire horses; 4)
Brian and Mrs. Morris, N. Warwicks, horse; 5) Charlie
Paish, hairdresser since 1926; 6) Michael Wilson,
Manor Farm, Ledwell, attending fair since a boy; 7)
Ted Porter, Essex, horse dealer.
No. 8: Christmas Trees Interviews with Tom Gomm, forester. W.D. Campbell
and Ken Jackson discuss alteration to habitat and meet
Roderick Nicholson, Woodland Management Assoc.,
who manages woods for clients.
No. 9: Woodcote and
Woodcote and District Rabbit Clearance Society.
District Rabbit
Interviews with Stephen Hart, society chairman and
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No. 17: Boarstall Duck
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No. 18: Dorchester
Flower Show
Peter Willis, One of four full time employees of the
society.
Interviews with 1) Aubrey Long, wheelwright, Aston
nr. Bampton; 2) Laura Woodward, Brain Bros.,
Wootton; 3) Maurice King, wheelwright, Stoke
Mandeville.
Interviews with 1) Mick Aston, historian of the slate
industry, County Museum; 2) George Powell, George
Laughton, Wilf Griffin, villagers. Visit last remaining
mine with Local History Society, explanations of
digging stone for slate.
Interviews with 1) Sir Peter Scott, re appeal in
conjunction with BBONT; 2) Nigel Phillips, warden of
Warburg Reserve near Bix.
Interview with Ivan Spariles, curator of High Wycombe
Chair Museum - wooden chair leg makers. Includes
interviews with bodgers in the Chilterns and cane
workers recorded in the 1940's.
Interview with 1) Reg Mews, gamekeeper on a pheasant
shoot near Burford; 2) Graham Wren, pheasant beater
and ornithologist; 3) Francis Butterick, gundog owner;
4) George Hazel, gundog owner; 5) owner of the land
(not named).
Interview with 1) Prof. W.G. Hoskins, local historian,
historical method especially deserted villages (Steeple
Barton); 2) Trevor Rowley and Mick Aston, tutors
External Studies dept., on Broadstone deserted village
near Enstone.
Interview with Ray Goodwin, Cheltenham, who makes
natural history sound recordings.
Interview with Jim Worgan who is in charge of
Boarstall Duck Decoy - catching wildfowl for market.
Interview with 1) Arthur Wheeler, village allotment
warden; 2) Tony Jones, Chairman of Flower Show; 3)
Ron Bateman, show judge; 4) Gwen Hall, judge of
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domestic exhibits; 5) Vicar; 6) Ray Belcher, overall
winner.
Interview with David McDonald, Oxford University
Zoology Dept., researching social habits of the fox in
Oxfordshire.
Interview with Beryl Holbert, Nature Conservancy
Warden of Bernwood Forest. Ken Jackson walks in the
forest. Bruce Campbell talks to Phil Drabble, natural
history writer, who has a herd of deer at his home.
Interview with 1) Squadron Leader Douglas Peters,
manager of Bibury Trout Farm; 2) Eric Mayne, trout
farmer.
Interview with 1) Peter Condor, director of R.S.P.B. at
HQ in Bedfordshire; 2) John Crudass, chief reserves
officer; 3) Frank Bailey, deputy director; 4) Peter
Holden, runs Young Ornithologists Club; 5) Carl
Nicholson, assistant development 6) John Andrews,
conservation planning officer.
Interview with 1) Charlie Houseman, shepherd for
Tackley Estate; 2) John Hussey, manager of Pearson's
Wool Staplers at Thame.
Interview with Ken Burras, superintendant of Oxford
Botanic Garden, history and greenhouses. Bruce
Campbell and Ken Jackson discuss flora and fauna of
Christchurch Meadow.
Interview with 1) Walter Goff, part time gamekeeper at
park; 2) Jack Pratt, worker on Shelswell Estate; 3)
Albert Price, elderly resident of Fringford reminisces.
Bruce Campbell and Ken Jackson discuss flora and
fauna of Shelswell Park.
Interview with Herbert Bernie, head forester, Forestry
Commission, discusses oak forest and fauna. Ken
Jackson talks to Beryl Holbert, nature warden; George
Nuffin, forest worker for 20 yrs.; Anthony Macks,
forest worker for 4 yrs.
Interview with Ted Packford, Uffington resident for 80
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yrs., White Horse Hill games and lore, Wayland's
Smithy. Ken Jackson and W.D. Campbell discuss flora
and fauna. Interview with Bill Mace, farmworker,
horseman, 16 yrs on White Horse Hill.
Interviews with 1) Jack Burton, Park Superintendent,
history of area; 2) Alan Kirkland, flower/glasshouse
gardener, wildlife in park; 3) Anthony Cheek,
ornithologist, bird life in park, fauna and fauna; 4)
Norman Morris, head groundsman cricket circa 54 yrs.
1) Eric Simms discusses birds nests with Dr. Bruce
Campbell; 2) Dr. Stan Woodall, plant ecologist,
fritillaries; 3) Ken Jackson, warblers.
Ken Jackson talks about swans from north wintering in
Cherwell Valley, meets Malcolm Ogilvie who discusses
Bewick Swans at Wild Fowl Trust, Slimbridge. John
Simpson talks to Gary Hogg, travel writer about his
work.
Interviews with 1) Mary Tame, former headmistress,
restoration of Marsh Baldon school pond; 2) John
Brucker and John Campbell, booklet on birds found at
Queen,s Pool, Blenheim Park; 3) Ian Press, work of
RSPB.
Song spot - Ken Jackson, autumn bird song. Interviews
with 1) Michael Boddington, rural planning services,
Great Milton, explains report on 'Farm Based Tourism',
Countryside Commission; 2) Marion Warland, West
Oxon. Field Club, describes their Foray; 3) Sheila
Stewart, Ascot, discusses her books 'Country Kate' and
'Country Courtship'.
Interviews with 1) Bruce Campbell, BBONT, badger
killing; 2) Alan Sherman, RSPB Young Ornithologists
Club sponsored bird watch; 3) Joe Lowry, Winslow
Rambling Club, on a moonlight walk; 4) Bob Lamb,
Manor Farm, Wootton, Texel Sheep recently from
Holland.
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open day at stud; 2) Eric Simms and Alfred Lurcher,
life in fresh water pools; 3) Curly Whitehead, farm
labourer for 80 yrs. in North Aston, countryside
activities.
Interviews with 1) Alice Harvey, memories of North
Hinksey; 2) Kay Weaver, chairman West Oxon. Riding
Club, and Carol Hogg, secretary, discuss club's
activities; 3) Alun Jones, CPRE, describes Oxfordshire
Way maps.
Interviews with 1) Mrs. V. Buckingham, Horton cum
Studley, wasp nest in garden; 2) Beryl Holbert, Nature
Conservancy Warden, wasps; 3) Nigel Hammond, 19th
century butter and cheese making in Vale of White
Horse. Transport and marketing of cheese butter. 4)
W.D. Campbell, great crested grebes nesting on
Blenheim lake.
Interviews with 1) Moore, Patrick, W. Oxon. Council
advisor on landscaping and forestry, Dutch Elm disease
in W. Oxon.; 2) John Gooders, author of 'Where to
watch birds' 3) Tony Handley, Bampton Craft Fair, rush
and cane seated chairs; 4) Philip Stanford in the Vale,
glass animal modelling and miniatures. 5) W.D.
Campbell and Ken Jackson discuss hibernation of small
animals, and swallows and swifts.
Interviews with 1) Sylvia Hanscombe, shepherd,
discusses lambing; 2) Ron Stiff, who is building models
of old farm wagons, discusses county variations in
wagons; 3) Philip Street, author of books on animal
reproduction, partners and parasites.
Interviews with 1) Pete Brome, Arncott, amateur
wheelwright; 2) Alan Mattingley, national secretary
Ramblers Assoc., general aims, footpaths; 3) Listeners
comments on elm planting in Shennington, common
frogs, snowdrops; 4) David Streeter, setting a nature
reserve; 5) Alan Pickford, Oxon branch of British Horse
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Interviews with 1) Philip Ryden, republishing 1790
map of Oxon; 2) Ted Lomas, whimbles - hooks for
twisting straw bonds, discusses use; 3) Ken Jackson and
W.D. Campbell, city bird search at Port Meadow; 4)
Katherine Matthews, secretary Ashmolean History
Society, series of lectures for children.
Interviews with 1) David McDonald, foxes - particular
reference to Israel; 2) Alan Mattingley, secretary
Ramblers Assoc., problems of over use of National
Parks - traffic management schemes; 3) Mont Abbott,
'Shep', farm worker/shepherd for 30 years Enstone area.
Interviews with ........ 3) Mont Abbott, 'Shep', farm
worker/shepherd for 30 years in Enstone area.
Interviews with 1) Andrew Marshall, Deddington,
breeder of rare poultry; 2) Ken Jackson, discusses bird
song tapes; 3) W.D. Campbell, explains N.W. Oxon
custom of 'Spanish Liquor Day' on Palm Sunday - drink
made from liquorice and water. Talks to Hadlin,
Leafield, who keeps up custom, and Nelly Buckingham
in Wychwood Forest.
Interviews with 1) Bruce Campbell and W.D.
Campbell; 2) Cyril Harding and Percy Light, winter
weather; 3) Johnny Morris, conservation.
Interviews with 1) Philip Taylor, Dept. of Zoology,
Inland salt water aquarium; 2) Pupils of New College
School, marine aquarium; 3) Tom Kemp, curator
University museum, marine exhibits; 4) Mont Irons (?),
ornithology, S.W.Indian islands; 5) Ken and Bruce
Campbell, gulls on Port Meadow, Oxford.
Interviews with 1) Bruce Campbell, O.B.E.,
ornithologist, about his life and work - birds,
conservation and work with BBONT; 2) Jack Oldfield,
at 30th Oxford Farmers Conference - food production
top priority, conservation detrimental to food 3) Kit
Wheatley, West Hendred, keeping goats; 4) Ann Guy.
Interviews with 1) Bob Hitchman, Souldern,
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reminiscences; 2) Iris Law, bridleway officer British
Horse Society Oxon Branch, state of bridleways in
Oxon; 3) Jim and Rosa Worgan, Boarstall Duck Decoy.
Interviews with 1) Nigel Hammond, Berks and Wilts
Canal; 2) John Colbourne, curator of reptiles, Cotswold
Wild Life Park, about British snakes; 3) W.D.
Campbell, potential of over-grown gardens as nature
reserves.
Interviews with 1) John Campbell, harvest mice; 2)
Pupils of Abingdon School who are clearing and
tidying Culham causeway and bridge as part of project
for European Architecture Heritage Year; 3) Nigel
Hammond, history of Culham Bridge; 4) John frogs and
their decline; 5) Trevor Easterbrook, Adderbury,
kingfishers and lesser spotted woodpeckers.
Interviews with 1) Trevor Vale, farmer nr. Woodstock,
pick your own strawberries; 2) John Campbell, nature
trail Woodstock Museum garden; 3) Eric Simms,
countryside in July.
Interviews with 1) Gordon Napier, Rousham Park,
Dutch Elm disease; 2) Nigel Hammond, Albert Park,
Abingdon - history and developers of park {Edwin
Goldby}; 3) Stephen Mills, search in Morocco for the
Spanish Imperial Eagle.
Interviews with 1) Peter Firth, task leader, Conservation
Corps weekend. Phil King and Clare Newman, workers;
2) Roderick Nicholson, economics of forestry; 3) Bill
Cross, Draycott, former champion hedge layer.
Interviews with 1) Christine Bloxham, County
Museum, Woodstock, Oxon customs and folklore; 2)
Noel Jackson, summer bird migrant phone-in organised
by Y.O.C.; 3) Herbert Tooley, Banbury, repairing canal
narrowboats.
Interviews with 1) Ken Gibbons, chief press officer
British Waterways Board, at Boat Show, Earls Court water shortage and canal closures; 2) John Hirons,
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Witney, tractor preservation; Book review - Old Farm
Tractors by Philip Wright; 3) W.D. and Ken Jackson,
flowers in January after mild winter.
Interviews with 1) Ken Jackson, songspot - winter
birds; 2) Lord Tayler of Gryffe, chairman of Forestry
Commission, holidays in forest; 3) W.D. Campbell and
Ken Jackson, mammals living in holes; 4) Ted Reed,
Fyfield, shepherd for more than 40 years.
Interviews with 1) Joan Lawrence, Hook Norton, artist paintings of old farm machinery; 2) Ken Jackson and
W.D. Campbell at Slimbridge Wildlife Trust; 3) Ernie
Pool, farmer, at the Shire Horse Centre, Maidenhead.
Interviews with 1) Paul Toynton, warden, Aston
Rowant Nature Reserve; 2) J.R.L. Anderson, author of
book on the Ridgeway; 3) Beryl Hubert, Otmoor natural
history.
Interviews with 1) Dr.A. Goudie, lecturer Dept. of
Geology Oxford University, River Thames 300,000
years ago Abingdon - Oxford region; 2) Eric and Mary
Noble, recording bird song; 3) Tony Carter, Northants,
Bert Padget and his five sons - competitions; 4) Bob
Brickell and Richard Gifford, judges at horse ploughing
competitions; 5) Ian Muir and Jim Agnew, competitors.
Interviews with 1) Chris Hall and Lord Castle, cofounders of Chiltern Society; 2) Bill Parkinson, Oxon.
veterinary surgeon Ministry of Agriculture, swine
vesicular disease; 3) Mike Hallam, Wootton and Oscar
Colburn, Northleach, farming and preservation 4) Nigel
Gray, game conservancy; 5) Sonia Holland, vice
chairman and John Hughes, Gloucs. Naturalists Society.
Interviews with 1) Molly Foster, John Forshaw (?),
chairman of parish meeting, and Richard Fison, cabinet
maker - all from Kencot, winner of best kept village
competition; 2) Eric Simms, September bird migration.
Interviews with 1) Mavis Batey, secretary Garden
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brick making in the Vale of White Horse; 3)
Christopher Nineham, Timothy Oswin and Chris
Perrins - Oxford City bird search.
Interviews with 1) Vera Hodgkins, plush industry,
Shutford and Banbury; 2) Ken Jackson, natural history
requests; 3) Eric Simms, British deer.
Interviews with 1) Eric Simms, the month of August; 2)
Cliff Davis, swallows in Blewbury and North Morton;
3) Ted Baughan, farmer, Kingsway Farm, Aston nr.
Bampton - farm studies for school children.
Interviews with 1) Kenneth Robbins, co-compiler of
Directory of Zoos; 2) Major Patrick Rance, cheese shop
at Streatley; 3) Bruce Campbell, W.D. Campbell and
Ken Jackson discuss Natural History Bookshelves; 4)
George Stewart, Dutch Elm disease.
Interviews with 1) John Vince, Butler's Cross nr.
Aylesbury, author of book on village architecture; 2)
Philip Allison, course tutor, Oxford Polytechnic,
architecture and social survey of Stanton St. John; 3)
Jack Tanner, teacher, John Lexon, Lee, Jane Alcott,
Nicholas Gammon, school children, Old Marston,
silverworking. 4) Ken Jackson, bird songspot.
Interviews with 1) Bernard Theobald, farmer, Westbury
Farm, Purley nr. Pangbourne, English grape harvest; 2)
Ken Jackson, natural history recordings; 3) Robin
Buckley, Reading University, plant protection
exhibition; 4) Philip Ware, naturalist, and Sir Thomas
Barlow, BBONT appeal.
Interviews with 1) John Rhodes, Keeper of antiquities,
County Museum, Woodstock, Woodstock steel
jewellery; 2) and 4) Ken Jackson and W.D. Campbell,
robins and window pecking crow; 3) Jim Elliott,
County Museum, Woodstock, Keble College Barge.
Interviews with 1) Ron Higgins, landlord of Yeoman
P.H., Freeland, talks about stuffed animals; 2) John
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3) John Shiel, history of nature conservation; 4) Ken
Jackson and Mike Bayliss, City bird search.
Interviews with 1) Pamela Lutyen, walking in the
countryside; 2) Hugh Westacott, footpaths in North
Bucks.; 3) John Kemp, curator of University Museum.
Interviews with Graham Wren, seabirds on Farne
Islands; 2) John Brooker, rook count; 3) Simon Watson,
secretary of village organising committee - Stonesfield
Festival.
Interviews with 1) Chris Reynolds, schoolmaster,
swans; 2) Beryl Holbert, purple emperor butterflies; 3)
W.D. Campbell, ladybirds.
Interviews with 1) David Streeter, lecturer in ecology,
University of Sussex, plants in the countryside; 2) Steve
Mills, officer for Oxon British Trust for Ornithology,
site survey; 3) Sidney Chapman, director of Tree
Council, National Tree Week; Ken Jackson and W.D.
Campbell, cuckoos.
Interviews with 1) Fred Taylor, Broughton, gardening;
2) Jim Holford, farm wagon models; 3) Pam Lambourn,
Boars Hill, badgers and foxes in garden; 4) James
Bond, Oxon County Museums, and Mrs. Johnson, W.I.
member, field name survey.
Interviews with 1) John Brucker, house martins; 2)
Trevor Rowley, Oxford University, dept. of External
Studies, archaeology and planning; 3) Ken Jackson and
Bruce Campbell, City bird search - final.
Interviews with 1) Jack Reed, Surrey, ploughing with
heavy horses; 2) Mrs. Mary Dash, secretary of Southern
Counties Heavy Horse Association; 3) John Cooke,
member of Oxford Scientific Film team, spiders.
Interviews with 1) Sqn. Ldr. Douglas Peters, farm
manager, Bibury Trout Farm; 2) Harry Gilkes and
Arthur Taylor, local builders repairing 17th C tower
windmill at Compton Wynyates; 3) Tom Coles,
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wildlife and plantlife on reclaimed Curtis of Abingdon
quarry.
Interviews with 1) 'Clear' Evans, sheepdog training and
Chris Winterton, border collie breeder; 2) Dr. Franklin
Penning, the Lady Slipper Orchid; 3) W.D. Campbell
and Ken Jackson discuss Wychwood Forest.
Interviews with 1) 'Clear' Evans, sheepdog training and
Chris Winterton, border collie breeder;
Interviews with 1) David and Joan Hay, nature reserve
at Short Heath Farm near Chesham. Discussion of their
book - The birds are full of song - published by Chiltern
Soc.; 2) Eddie Hodges, Woodcote, thatcher, techniques
of thatching, thatching roof Stadhampton; 3) Ken
Jackson and W.D. Campbell, first cuckoo and
woodland plants.
Interviews with 1) Ken Jackson and W.D. Campbell,
butterflies, bats at Charlbury; 2) Arthur Howe, exotic
ducks at Bletchingdon.
1st questions Country-Side - John Simpson, chairman.
Panel - Dr. Bruce Campbell, Brian Sinfield, dir.
Cotswold Wildlife Park, Gordon Maclean, W. Oxon.
Field Club.
Interviews with 1) Major Bill Cliff, stud groom, Horses
Home of Rest, West Croft Stables, Speen, near Princes
Risborough; 2) Charles Cottrell-Dormer, rare longhorns
at Rousham Park; Rodney Stanford, farmer from
Winslow breeding longhorn cattle; Bob looked after
longhorns at Rousham 1927; 3) Marion Stevens,
organiser of Save the Countryside sponsored walk in
N.E. Oxon.; Alun Jones, Old Marston, artist of
sponsored walk map.
Questions Countrywise from New College School. John
Simpson, chairman. Panel - W.D. Campbell, nature
correspondent of Guardian, Jonathan Webb, writer and
broadcaster on angling, Roderick Nicholson, forrester.
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sheep shearing (at County Museum, Woodstock); 2)
Ken Jackson - song spot, song of tit family; 3) Dr.
Elizabeth Johnson, Dept. of Zoology, Reading, control
of grey squirrel; 4) Tony Middleton, clay pigeon
shooting (at Horton-cum-Studley).
Interviews with 1) Ken Jackson and W.D. Campbell,
countryside in June, wildflowers; 2) Len Cook, member
of Berkshire Beekeepers, swarming bees.
Questions Countrywise. Abingdon Naturalist Society at
North Berks. College of F.E. put questions to panel Bob Dibble, Tubney farmer, Chris Perrins,
ornithologist, Edgar Poulsford, member of society.
1) Bob Burgess, winner at Royal Show, talks about his
attendance over 59 yrs. 2)Interview with Mrs. Elizabeth
Foster, breeder of Caspian ponies, at Royal Show 3)
Oxford Scientific Films appeal for German wasps nests
4) Clearing bridleways and 5) Bird ringing, wild
flowers, caterpillars.
Questions Countrywise from Marlborough School,
Woodstock. John Simpson, chairman. Panel - Ted
Adnams, head of science and rural studies,
Marlborough School; Richard Foster, director of
County Museum, Woodstock; Dr. Tom Tinsley,
director of unit of virology.
Interviews with 1) John Stone, butterfly exhibition and
shop, Bourton on the Water; 2) Review of 'Chiltern
Villages' by Vera Burden; 3) Joe Henson, breeder of
Iron Age piglets, bred for experimental Iron age
settlement.
Interviews with 1) Dr. Tom Tinsley, chairman of
conference on Insect Pathology and Microbial Control,
about using natural diseases to control insect pests; 2 &
3) Nick Raynor and Alfie Milward using heavy horses
for ploughing at Marsh Gibbon show.
Interviews with 1) Bob Williams, removing pike from a
trout fishery on the River Glyme; 2) Sydney Tyrell
Hughes, Frank &
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about his book ' A Countryman,s Tale' - a history of the
village of Eydon; 3) Ken Jackson and W.D. Campbell,
nesting birds.
Interviews with 1) Patrick Wise, Burford, compiler of
the Cotswold Kit - a new kind of guide to the
Cotswolds; 2) Notice of official opening of the
Ridgeway Path, Chilterns; 3) Bruce Campbell, nesting
season.
Interviews with 1) Pamela Webber, making corn
dollies; 2) Ken Jackson and W.D. Campbell, winter bird
visitors
Interviews with 1) Tom Smith, Minster Lovell, fox
hunting; 2) George Stewart, Forestry Commissioner,
woodland protection and forest fires; 3) Roger Morrow,
manager Park Farm, Blenheim, sheep farming; 4) Terry
Woodward, shepherd.
Interviews with 1) Mrs. Catherine Hain, 1920's
farmhouse; 2) Bernard Theobald, vineyard, Westbury
Farm, Pangbourne; 3) Mrs. Margaret Charlett, art of
lacemaking.
Interviews with 1) W.D. Campbell and Ken Jackson,
bird life at Slimbridge; 2) Chris Wallis, leader of
Chiltern Society, and members of society, restoring a
smock windmill at Lacey Green.
Interviews with 1) Monty Soanes, lambing at Royal
Oak Farm nr. Beckley; 2) Arthur Howe, ducks on
Bletchingdon pond; 3) Local vet, how to buy a pony; 4)
Ian McCauley and Brian Franks at horse drawn vehicle
sale, Stow on the Wold; 5) Liz Blundell, used for birds
nests.
Interviews with 1) W.D. Campbell, birds at local gravel
pit; 2) Sir Frank Fraser Darling, famous ecologist at
Commonwealth Forestry Conference; 3) Jack North,
rare sighting of Osprey at Blenheim Park, Woodstock;
4) Ron Laird, Ospreys in Scotland, Strathspey.
Interviews with 1) John Dixon, Director General of
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Forestry Commission and chairman of 10th
Commonwealth Forestry Conference - Forest in global
environment; 2) Harry Marshall, Canadian delegate at
conference, - forestry and recreation; 3) Bruce author of
'Dictionary of Birds'; 4) Claude Rivers, breeder of
moths and butterflies used in research in insect diseases,
Wytham.
Interviews with 1) Len Cook, Berkshire Beekeeping
Association, history of beekeeping; 2) Frank Emery,
history of Oxfordshire Landscape; 3) Ken Jackson,
dawn chorus.
Interviews with 1) W.D. Campbell and Ken Jackson,
migrant birds; 2) Lord Nugent, opening of Ridgway
Path; 3) & 4) Don Gresswell and Christopher Hall,
Ridgeway Path; 4) Ken Jackson, bird song.
Interviews with 1) John Gagg, author of The Canalers
Bedside Book; 2) Dr. Tom Tinsley, flies.
Interviews with 1) Ken Jackson, ospreys in Scotland
and RSPB purchase of land near Loch Garten, Scotland;
2) Mike Hallam, preservation of 200 year old Wootton
Mill Shaft; 3) Eric Simms, hibernation.
Interviews with 1) Margaret Campbell, editor of
'Countryman Book of Humour'; 2) Elaine Hurrel,
Mammal Society, dormice; 3) Jim Williamson,
footpaths and wardens, VOWH; 4) Graham Wren, bird
photography.
Interviews with 1) George Whittingham and Roger
Pridmore, dry stone wallers; 2) Hugh Westacott, author
of 'Practical Guide to Walking the Ridgeway Path '; 3)
Ken Jackson, City bird search, college parks (part 2).
Interviews with 1) Richard Strainge, Ducklington
Turkey Farm, Ron Godfrey, turkey plucker; 2) Tom
Williams, Brussels Sprouts farm, Hook Norton; 3)
Gordon MacLean, apple orchard, Kingston Bagpuize,
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storing apples; 4) W.D. Campbell, holly, mistletoe
Christmas trees.
John Simpson chairs a discussion on bird migration
with 1) Philip Street, author of Animal Migration and
Navigation; 2) Geoffrey Matthews, Director of
Research, Wild Life Trust, Slimbridge; 3) W.D.
Campbell.
Interviews with 1) Mr. and Mrs. Houseman, sheepdog
trials in conjunction with Tackley Horse Show; 2) Glen
Hill, author of 'Penguin Millionaire - the Story of
Birdland'; 3) Bill Campbell, migration diary; 4) Bruce
and Margaret Campbell, ruins of Well and the Royal
Hunting Lodge, Blenheim, Woodstock.
Interviews with 1) Alison Kemp, branch manager of
CPRE, its involvement with hedgerows; 2) Alan Spicer,
hedge dating; 3) Ken Hope, hedge laying, Morton-inMarsh; 4) Bob Arnold, CPRE.
Interviews with 1) Dr. Leonard Leyton, Dept. of
Forestry, University of Oxford, trees; 2) Ken Hope, ex
head forester, Batsford estate, Morton-in-Marsh,
forestry management; 3) George Farrer, cabinet maker,
wood selection; 4) Lord Dulverton, owner Batsford
estate, woodland flora and forestry.
John Simpson introduces Shiretalk round up - Ken
Jackson, W.D. Campbell, and Bruce Campbell discuss
events during the year on the nature scene.
Interviews with 1) W.D. Campbell and Ken Jackson what's happening in January, including nesting boxes;
2) Dr. Humphrey Bowen, BBONT, Bullingdon Bog
nature reserve; 3) Mrs. Caroline Howard, Beckley,
driving ponies and carts.
Interviews with 1) John Footitt, Freeland, model farm
wagons; 2) W.D. Campbell and Ken Jackson, coming
of spring; 3) Dr. Frank Perrin, Monkswood
Experimental Station, conservation of the British flora.
Interviews with 1) Michael Bennett, Pick your own
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strawberries, Long Compton; 2) Michael Molesworth,
holiday courses for children, Elscott Field Study
Centre; 3) Ken Jackson, bats; 4) Leslie Wood, judge for
Best Kept Village competition.
Interviews with 1) Bruce and Margaret Campbell, joint
editors of 'The Countryman Annual Book'; 2) Mark
Richards, author of 'The Cotswold Way - a walker's
guide'; 3) Ken Jackson and W.D. Campbell, winter bird
visitors. Book reviews - Walks in Chilterns, Round
walks west of London (Chilterns) by Vera Burden.
Interviews with 1) Glyn Davis, vice president of
Banbury Ornithological Society re exhibition
'Conservation in the Banbury Area' and the society; 2)
Bob Aplin, birds nests; 3) Tony Nash, bird paintings; 4)
Alasdair Barclay, warden of Aston Rowant Nature
Reserve.
Interviews with 1) Tom Gomm, Dutch elm disease; 2)
Gordon Napier, treatment of Dutch elm disease; 3) Ken
Jackson, bird song spot - swallows, house martins,
swifts; 4) Cliff Christie, Middleton Cheney
ornithologist, herons.
Interviews with 1) Long, Walter, ladder making; 2)
Raymond Lea, author of 'Country Curiosities' (book
review). 3) John Gilmour, cart horses.
Interviews with 1) Jean Buttrick, village shop - E.
Sawyer and Son, Newland St., Eynsham; 2) Ken
Jackson and W.D. Campbell, bird ringing; 3) Cliff
Christie, young heron (rpt. of part of interview MT
303). Traditional rhyme - Burning Logs (how sorts of
wood burn)
Interviews with 1) Alan Clewley, autumn sown wheat;
2) Jasmine Howse, author of 'Charney Bassett through
the ages'; 3) John Colbourne, toads; 4) Ronald Noble,
SODC Arts and Entertainment Sub Committee book 'Your South Oxfordshire Heritage'. Sound - carrion
crow.
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Oxon Agricultural Show. Interviews with 1) Tim Brice,
pig carcasses; 2) John Roper, competiton judge; 3) John
Hardcastle, Weed Research Organisation, Begbroke
Hill Farm, re wild oats; 4) Jack Gibbard, blacksmith,
Great Tew, collection of country on exhibition at
Enstone school. 5) Ken Jackson and W.D. Campbell,
what's happening in August (natural history).
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