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Science Through the Looking Glass

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Last of six programmes Improbability
Science deals in probabilities. Nothing is certain, but some things are highly unlikely. It would take a long time for monkeys walking over typewriters to produce a Shakespeare sonnet - but it would happen eventually.
This week David Jones reveals the closest known parallel to those monkey-bards.
Producer MARTIN GOLDMAN BBC Scotland
7.0 Travel; programme news

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David Jones
Producer:
Martin Goldman
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