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In this issue: Caroline Quentin’s favourite painting The actress chooses a poignant portrait of childhood Meeting of minds A thoughtful new play about Quakers, Alan Bennett’s homage to the NHS and a modern myth stir Michael Billington’s senses and much more...
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'A partly real, partly dream country'
Thomas Hardy's depictions of a fictional Wessex and his own dear Dorset are more accurate than they may at first appear, says Susan Owens
The brilliance of Thomas Telford
His legacy is the Shropshire Union Canal, a feat of engineering and a delight to walk beside
An ideal manor house
Mapperton House, Dorset The home of the Viscount and Viscountess Hinchingbrooke. Fresh research reveals more about the history of one of our most celebrated manor houses and its magnificent gardens, finds Timothy Conno
The slug of the Baskervilles
Prowl the wilds of Dartmoor at night and you just might stumble upon our largest land slug
With fairy shoes in every flower
It might be common and unremarkable, but the deadnettle has been a powerful and effective country remedy for centuries, discovers Ian Morton
Walk on the wild side
The garden at Kestle Barton Gallery, near Helford, Cornwall. Caroline Donald visits a garden that marries an award-winning art gallery with a landscape of creeks and fields
Furniture with a future
Antique shops, auctioneers houses are full of furniture that is hundreds of years old. Yet much of what is made today won't last for more than a decade or two. Arabella Youens asks five designers what they regard as the secret to creating designs that will last for generations and historic
To have and to hold
Finding himself at a loose end, woodsman John Williamson decided to revive the lost art of Devon stave-basket-making using old museum transcripts.
Fishing in troubled waters
Few of us give much thought to how our fish gets to the supermarket, but the life of a small-scale fisherman is becoming ever more unpredictable and dangerous
Et in Arcadia ego
Manors in and around 'the great paradise of England'-Somerset's Vale of Taunton Deane
