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As part of the Natural History Museum’s Urban Nature Project, responding to the urgent need to monitor and record changes to UK urban nature and support its recovery the five acres of green space that wrap around the Museum’s much loved building in South Kensington, London have been transformed in to the recently opened Nature Discovery and Evolution Gardens. On Tuesday 6 August 2024 the Natural History Museum launched a recorded audio guide to their new Nature Discovery and Evolution Gardens bringing the gardens to life for everyone including blind and partially sighted people. The audio guide also includes a number of poems created by young visually impaired people that came out of a series of workshops lead by Rapper and Poet Testament. RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was there at the audio guide launch event at the Natural History Museum to not only experience the new gardens through the recorded audio guide but also to chat with some of the people who worked on the guide too.  Prior to the launch even