This week in Country Life, do you know your trees? Test yourself and learn the trees you dont' know. Plus, listen out for the amazing songbirds hallelujah chorus and 43 pages of fantastic country houses for sale.
** Sir Tim Laurence, the chairman of the newly independent English Heritage, talks to Clive Aslet
** Charles Quest-Ritson ventures to the Villa della Pergola on the Italian Riviera, where a century-old British garden has received a new lease of life
** In south Devon, Julie Harding meets a man who swapped a life with numbers for one fashioning leather goods
** A new catalogue of the Wallace Collection’s sculptures holds numerous dicoveries about these little-known treasures, as its author, Jeremy Warren, explains
** Simon Hopkinson cooks curry
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‘Lots of books, Scrabble, a pack of cards and James Norton. Oh, and some wine’: Alison Weir’s consuming passionsThe Sunday Times bestselling author, 74, on her literary hero, her collection of jigsaw puzzles that she never has time to do and her celebrity crush.
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Robert Redford's Oscar and this week's unique royal funeral: Country Life Quiz of the Day, September 17, 2025One of Hollywood's greats is remembered in Wednesday's quiz.
