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19/10/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Peter Snow Returns to the Future, Chris Packham

Nature broadcaster Chris Packham goes back to 1662 to witness the extinction of the dodo.

There's no more famous extinct creature than the dodo. In the latest of Peter Snow's trips to the past and the future the nature broadcaster Chris Packham goes back to witness its extinction, then travels forward to 2017 to see the luckless bird resurrected thanks to some unlicensed DNA experiments in a Beijing laboratory.

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