Meetings with Remarkable Trees
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Meetings with Remarkable Trees

Series 2, Milton's Mulberry

A history of the great mulberry tree which stands in the grounds of Christ's College, Cambridge, which historians believe to have been planted during an attempt to establish a silk trade in Britain during the reign of Charles I. But the programme reveals how the tree has proved more successful at supplying the college with mulberry jam and ice cream.

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First Broadcast4 Jul 2008
Latest Broadcast4 Jul 2008
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