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Buried review: Did the Anglo-Saxons really invade Britain?

25 May 2022

Who were the Anglo-Saxons? Biological anthropologist Alice Roberts's informed, sophisticated new take digs deep to re-examine their true origins
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The Dolittle Machine review: What if we really could talk to animals?

25 May 2022

What would you say to a bat – or a dolphin – if you could? An ingenious radio programme by sci-fi writer Matthew de Abaitua imagines an animal-human translation machine

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