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The best of 麻豆约拍 Radio this week with Antonia Quirke.

This week, globe-makers wrest worlds from gauze and water and leopards protect rare thickets of Ethiopian jungle. Darwin鈥檚 Beagle slumbers in the Essex marshes, while wasps in Darwin's garden swoon on the pollen of orchids. A childhood is thwarted; a boyhood eased by horses; a whole language saved from encroaching flames. And a train traces a route along the hinge of two great powers.

Producer: Stephen Garner
Production Support: Vanessa Ford