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Afternoon Reading - Bears of England - Sewer Bears

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Series of three eccentric stories by Mick Jackson, which mix fantasy with folk tale and myth with history. For many years in the 19th century, several dozen bears were held in London's sewers, where they served as the city's unpaid flushers and toshers. Read by Ian Holm. A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.