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We look back at was has been a topsy-turvy 2020 and look ahead with positive thoughts about the New Year …

Tom Pattinson reflects on a very unusual gardening year … and has some wonderful apple scented seasonal tips on yule logs

Steve Lowe, Northumberland Rivers Trust, is out and about with nature on a wander along a hidden jewel of a river...

Tom Cadwallender is celebrating festive birds, and looking at the Christmas robin and how 2020 brought us some amazing new county records…

And

… We’ve got winter bees with Buglife and how to help them…
Music from Carl Cape Band: It Must Be Christmas Time and Auld Lang Syne
And the Durham University Music Choir: While Shepherds Watched

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अध्यायों

1. Intro: Carl Cape Band: It Must Be Christmas Time (00:00:00)

2. Gardening reflections with Tom Pattinson (00:02:14)

3. The Christmas robin with Tom Cadwallender (00:07:12)

4. Along the River Lyne with Steve Lowe: part 1 (00:13:53)

5. Creative gardening in a strange year (00:19:20)

6. Winter Bees with Paul Hetherington, Buglife (00:23:28)

7. Along the River Lyne with Steve: part two (00:28:20)

8. Bird watching reflections & looking ahead (00:31:45)

9. Tom's jobs for a few weeks & look ahead to 2021 (00:38:44)

10. Outro: Carl Cape Band: Auld Lang Syne (00:44:36)