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Whackademics

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First of four programmes in which author David Stafford explores some unusual and eccentric research projects. Today he discovers an academic who brings extinct birds back to life, meets a researcher who feeds porridge to exotic snails and visits an Oxford don who claims Scottish country dancing is the greatest cause of human happiness. A Mandy Wheeler Sound production

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