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Series 7, Episode 6 (Lou Conran & Benjamin Partridge)

Season 7, Ep. 6

Lou Conran and Benjamin Partridge are on board for discussions about being indoors for an earthquake, shaking hands, sucking thumbs, dead rats (and badgers), kids eating food off the pavement plus an awful lot about worms with expert guest professor Dr Jonathan Pettitt.


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Special Thanks this episode to... Gemma Higgins for transcription, Gwyn Rhys Davies and Josh Grant for their assistance at the recording and The Phoenix in London for hosting it.


Additional credits: Music by Martin White, additional material by David Reed, illustration by Sally Grosart, produced by Ben Walker

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