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Authors write stories inspired by a visit to the Natural History Museum in London.

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Natural Histories: Short Stories: Series 1

Lionel Shriver

Beth O'Dea

Natural Histories: Short Stories: Series 1: A Total Neanderthal

A Total Neanderthal

13/12/2015

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Lionel Shriver reads her short story inspired by a visit to the Natural History Museum.

Lionel Shriver reads her original story inspired by the Natural History Museum. A modern woman falls for a man who has the qualities of our remaining genetic close relatives.

Lionel Shriver reads her short story commissioned as part of the collaboration between Radio 4 and the Natural History Museum. She was taken behind the scenes at the museum, and that inspired this story. A modern woman falls for one of the few of our remaining genetic close relatives, because he has all the masculine qualities that in male homo sapiens in the West are dying out.. Producer Beth O'Dea.

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Four authors write stories inspired by a visit to the Natural History Museum.

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