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7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Sunday, September 27
World Rivers Day: The River Trent
Season 2026 · Episode 1
To mark World Rivers Day, Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor explore the River Trent and the land that surrounds it. Once heavily engineered and polluted, the river is now becoming a testbed for new approaches to improving its condition. Plus, Margherita follows a project to reintroduce white storks to the Trent Valley, and Joe Crowley investigates what the rapid growth of AI data centres could mean for the countryside
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- Matt Baker — Presenter
- Margherita Taylor — Presenter
- Hamza Yassin — Presenter
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- Becky Pratt — Series producer
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