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* The Saga of Napoleon's Wallpaper

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

When David Jones , in a Radio 4 broadcast. flippantly suggested a new hypothesis for why Napoleon's hair should contain arsenic, he hardly expected to be able to test it. After all. Napoleon died 161 years ago. But a listener responded to the broadcast and this led to a whole chain of detective work - and a brand new scientific theory.
This is the full story.
Producer MARTIN GOLDMAN BBC Scotland

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David Jones
Producer:
Martin Goldman
Source: Radio Times

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