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Of Life and Men

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

In 1940 two remarkable men boarded a sardine boat and set sail on a 4,000-mile voyage from
Monterey, California, to explore the Sea of Cortez.
Together they shared a gift of the gab, a keen eye for observation, a love of words and a reverence for all living things. One was Ed Ricketts , a talented young biologist, the other was Pulitzer Prize-winning writer John Steinbeck. Howard Stableford travels to
Ricketts's old lab on Cannery Row in California to find out about this extraordinary friendship and the deep impact it had on both men. ProducerJoanne Stevens

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Ed Ricketts
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John Steinbeck.
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Howard Stableford
Source: Radio Times

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