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Open Country: Reed Cutting at Cley

Series 1793, episode 14

The Cley marshes is the Norfolk Wildlife Trust's oldest reserve and home to a plethora of birdlife, sealife and grazing saltmarsh cattle. Bernard Bishop has lived and worked on the land his entire life and he and his family have been cutting reeds to be used for thatching from the marsh for five generations. He talks to Ruth Sanderson as he cuts this year's reed crop with his son and nephew. With birds calling overhead, he reflects on a life spent working in and loving this very special landscape

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Ruth Sanderson