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Radiolab

Series 7

Damn Bugs

Duration: 55 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Radiolab explores what would be the cost of wiping out mosquitoes and other pesky insects from the world? With Jad Abumrad.

If you could wipe mosquitoes, ticks, and other pesky insects from the face of the Earth...would you? On this hour of Radiolab, we speak with the difficulties of sharing a planet with these pests and what they might actually be doing to help our world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2018. Show less

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