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The Years of the Locust

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The desperate need to kill locusts brought to Africa and Arabia, in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, a strange band of British scientists and eccentrics.
Many stayed to develop new and successful techniques to combat the deadly locust plagues. June Knox-Mawer presents the memories - strange, exciting and often hilarious - of the British locust hunters.
Producer JULIAN HALE. Stereo

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Producer:
Julian Hale.
Source: Radio Times

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