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By finding an injured pigeon in The Strand, two amazing variety club artists, Louis and Yvonne Veness, first began to care for wild creatures. Upon their move to Berkshire, they started up their own Newbury wildlife hospital, knowing of no other in the country.Foxes, badgers, deer, squirrels, a polecat, bats and every variety of birds were brought to them, even an oiled heron from as far away as the Clyde. Their experiences were many - from re...

In 1816 a hapless black baby is abandoned at night in a basket on the doorstep of a village midwife. She names him Moses, and in the coastal village inhabited entirely by white people, she and her husband, a farmhand, bring him up defying hostility. They discover he has a beautiful singing voice which in time brings him fame. Left in the basket with him was a priceless gold medal and chain, and in the village where smuggling, violence and riot...