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What's in a Name?

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

...such as the 'chicken-like guinea-fowl' that isn't? Or the 'ashy-headed parrot-bill', which isn't either?
Problems with Names is the last of six programmes, in which Denis Owen shares some of the jokier nonsense names bestowed on the Brazilian stripe-bellied weasel. the common water vole and perhaps most ridiculous of all. the laughing jackass....
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol

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Denis Owen
Producer:
Anne Blair Gould
Source: Radio Times

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