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The children remembered through birdsong

Hundreds of children who died at the Ty Hafan Children’s Hospice in the Vale of Glamorgan are to be celebrated in the form of birdsong.

A sound artist has transposed each child’s name into Morse code. The code is played as the song of a bird chosen by the family.

400 children’s names will be sung by different electronic birds, and their families will be able to sit in the hospice garden and hear their child’s special call played out on a speaker.

In time it hopes local birds will mimic the songs.

Abigail was 10 when she died at the hospice.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ 5 Live’s spoke to her family who heard her name being sung in birdsong for the first time.

This clip is originally for The Emma Barnett Show on 30 August 2018.

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