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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Dempster

My Garden of a Thousand Bees review – a joyous film on the unbearable lightness of bee-ing

Martin Dohrn observes a bee visit a thistle in the sunshine
Bee-FFs … Martin Dohrn keeps a close eye on a leafcutter bee. Photograph: BBC/Martin Dohrn/Passion Planet

Martin Dohrn likes bees. Big bees, small bees, angry bees, randy bees, bees with voluminous ruffs and calves like tiny Henry VIIIs – rare is the bee that Dohrn doesn’t deem worthy of … what, exactly? Appreciation? Or something more profound?

“It’s hard to explain,” says the veteran wildlife photographer, peering at us through his red-framed glasses while perched at his gadget-strewn kitchen table. “But I really feel for bees. They’re really … I mean, I could say they’re my friends.”

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