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Old BBC programmes chopped up and turned into something new.

Welcome to the chopped-up, looped-up, sped-up world of Recycled Radio, where old programmes are reused to explore a series of weighty subjects.

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Evolution

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What can Darwin, Tony Blair, Mary Berry and the prawn cracker tell us about evolution?

What can Darwin, Lemarck, Bernard Lovell, Tony Blair, Brian the Snail, D:Ream, Mary Berry and the prawn cracker tell us about evolution? Recycled Radio might have the answer.

Gerald Scarfe is back to guide you through the BBC archive - mutated into something completely different. Today's subject: Evolution. 

This episode tackles the history of our evolution and searches the archive for answers to some of the biggest questions ever posed on Radio 4. Why are we like we are? Can things only get better? What's the full title of the Origin of Species? What can Darwin, Lemarck, Bernard Lovell, Tony Blair, Brian the Snail, D:Ream, Mary Berry, and the prawn cracker tell us about evolution? Recycled Radio might have the answer. 

Producer: Polly Weston.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Old BBC programmes chopped up and recycled into something new.

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