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Okay. Take 2.

Last month we drew to a close two major installations at The MERL: our gallery trail Radical Rural, and our exhibition Voices of the Countryside.

In this episode, Joe and Ollie reflect on these two projects. We explore what we learned from them, what they meant to us, and how we want to build on this work for the future.

We also talk about the World Cup, explain what the heck went wrong last time, and go on a few other tangents that we don't regret at all. Enjoy.

Relevant links:

• Radical Rural: https://merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/radical-rural-gallery-trail/
• Man in the Woods' Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/man.in.the.woods/?hl=en
• Wild Card's Rewilding the Ghost Woods: https://wildcard.land/campaigns/rewild-the-ghost-woods
• CPRE: https://www.cpre.org.uk/

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Absolute Units is the official podcast of The Museum of English Rural Life. This series is made possible through the generous support of Arts Council England and Museums Partnership Reading, a partnership of The MERL with Reading Museum. Theme tune by Tai Dawson. This podcast contains audio from Epidemic Sound.

Co-hosts: Ollie Douglas and Joe Vaughan
Producer: Joe Vaughan

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