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Brett Westwood investigates the biology and culture of the Fox - a creature long believed to be the devil in disguise.

Brett Westwood investigates the biology and culture of the Fox - a creature long believed to be the devil in disguise. With poetry by Ted Hughes and Simon Armitage, the rollocking medieval bestseller Reynard the Fox, a fox seduction in an abandoned ruin, and a stakeout in a Bristol back garden with urban fox expert Professor Stephen Harris.

First broadcast in a longer form on 19th July 2016
Original Producer (2016): Melvin Rickarby
Archive Producer (2023) : Andrew Dawes

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28 minutes

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Sun 10 Sep 2023 06:35

Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage
Simon ArmitageΒ is a British poet, playwright and novelist. In this programme discusses his highly acclaimed translation of the middle English classic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and reads Ted Hughes' much-loved poem Thought Fox.

Jon Cannon

Jon Cannon
Canon Jon Cannon is Bristol Cathedral's 'Keeper of the Fabric'. Β An architectural historian by background he is responsible for overseeing the Cathedral's management of its fabric and precincts.

He is also a lecturer at the University of Bristol and author of Cathedral: the great English cathedrals and the world that made them; The Secret Language of Sacred Spaces and the Shire book of Medieval Church Architecture. He also presented the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ documentary, .

Erica Fudge

Erica Fudge
Erica Fudge is Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She is the author of a number of books and essays on human-animal relations in the English Renaissance and in the contemporary age.

Her work has also appeared inΒ Β magazine and she is the director of theΒ .

Stephen Harris

Stephen Harris is Professor of Environmental Sciences at theΒ University of Bristol, and a lifelong vulpophile. He has studied urbanΒ foxes for nearly half a century, first in London and then in Bristol, where he has been monitoring the population for the last 35 years.

Rania Huntington

Rania Huntington
Rania Huntington is chair of the department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin and author of .Β As the most ambiguous alien in the late imperial Chinese imagination, she writes how the fox reveals which boundaries around the human and the ordinary were most frequently violated and, therefore, most jealously guarded.

Lucy Jones

Lucy Jones
is a journalist and author based in London. She was Deputy Editor of NME.com and previously worked at the Daily Telegraph. Her writing on culture, science and nature has been published in Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Earth, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Wildlife, the Guardian, TIME and the New Statesman.

She runs the blog and is the author of , which received the Society of Authors' Roger Deakin Award.

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  • Tue 19 Jul 2016 11:00
  • Mon 25 Jul 2016 21:00
  • Sun 10 Sep 2023 06:35

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