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BBC Radio 4's Zeb Soanes befriends an urban fox

A BBC newsreader has formed an unlikely friendship with a fox.

Radio 4's Zeb Soanes found the animal limping outside his north London home and decided to give it some food.

It inspired Zeb to name the fox Gaspard and write a children's book.

22 August 2018

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