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'We no longer call them pilchards, they're now Cornish sardines'

It was a world ago when the newly established Penguin Books decided to branch out into travel guides - in 1939, they published books on six English counties.

Emma Jane Kirby has been driving around England following them, to see how the country has changed since the start of the Second World War.

In this episode she visits Cornwall, where she discovers the Cornish language is thriving, the percentage of holiday homes is higher than in any other part of Britain, and its famous pilchard fish has now been renamed the Cornish sardine.

(Photo: Fish, formerly known as a pilchard, now known as a Cornish sardine Credit: 麻豆官网首页入口)

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