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03/12/19 Labour and Green Party manifestos, invasive crayfish

This week we save you the bother of reading through those manifestos to find out their promises on farming. Today we hear from Labour and the Green party.

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This week we save you the bother of reading through those manifestos to find out their promises on farming. Today we hear from Labour and the Green party.
Sally Challoner visits a sheep farmer in Somerset, to hear what he's looking for in the next government.
The invasive signal crayfish has been advancing through Derbyshire's waterways. But now a project to conserve the native white-clawed crayfish seems to be making a difference.

Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

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Tue 3 Dec 201905:45

BBC Radio 4 FM

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