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Michael Morpurgo on the Magpie

Children's author and poet Michael Morpurgo discusses the cackling magpie in this Tweet of the Day, a bird that seemingly never dies.

Producer: Tom Bonnett
Photograph: Ken Bentley.

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Mon 6 Feb 2023 05:58
BBC Radio 4

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