Polly Pullar is well-known as a writer and conservationist, but her remarkable collection of rescued animals, and her views on how farmers should be helped to live with rewilding, need more attention. She's a farmer herself and has robust opinions. She also has a crazy squirrel named Alistair, a fecund one-eyed hedgehog named Reggie, and some very funny stories - including one about a kid with a head full of dolphins.

So this week we learn about:

• Animal rescue and why it's worthwhile
• Saving a paralysed, tick-infested red deer hind
• How gardeners can help rewild
• Just how frightened I am of getting a squirrel down my trousers
• Why kids might be the answer to nature's decline

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Music created for this podcast by Nottingham's own Rob Baynes https://www.facebook.com/Beeeaaanz/ - hit him up if you want your own specially created music!

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