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SOUNDSCAPE: The Rats' Tales
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A fictional 5-part series narrated by Jane Lapotaire. |
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The Rats' Tales is a dramatic and evocative series, following the lives of three female, brown rats and their struggle to survive and raise their families alongside their human companions.
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Episode 1. Monday 12 September, 2005, 15.45-16.00
Rats are found all over Britain, for example, on farms, in rubbish dumps, gardens and in sewers.Ìý A sewer is near paradise for a rat; cool in summer, warm in winter and a constant humidity, with food and water in plenty supply.
The series opens on Tyneside. It's late December, and shortly after midnight when a young, immature brown sewer rat, emerges from her burrow in the underground sewer and follows her familiar run through the city in search of food.Ìý A group of drunken youths see the rat feeding and chase her through the streets, following her into the path of a speeding car.
Meanwhile, on Merseyside, a female rat has a narrow escape when the Mersey Ferry surges past her whilst she's swimming in the harbour. Without their mother to care for them, her litter of young rats nesting in a hollow high in the harbour wall would certainly perish.
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Episode 1: 12 September 2005 - More information >>>
Episode 2: 13 September 2005 - More information >>>
Episode 3: 14 September 2005 - More information >>>
Episode 4: 15 September 2005 - More information >>>
Episode 5: 16 September 2005 - More information >>>
See also:
Soundscape: The White-tailed Sea Eagle
Soundscape: The Swallow’s Journey
Soundscape: A Grey Seal Odyssey
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Soundscape: The Pond
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For further information about brown rats:
The Handbook of British Mammals, 3rd edn (Ed. by GB Corbet &. S. Harris), Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford .
The Mammal Society
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Nature: Wildfacts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/273.shtml
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