2021 Year in Review: Unheard bits from past Mysteries
Mysteries of Science
Fun Kids
4.6 • 681 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
We're always chatting to clever people on Mysteries of Science but not all of their interviews make the cut; sadly, sometimes we have to chop bits out!
We're looking back at our favourite mysteries of 2021 and we're playing some never-before-heard, extra-special clips from some of our favourite episodes...
We'll be back in the new year with more Mysteries of Science, including episodes on alien communication and archeological discoveries.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this very special episode of Mysteries of Science. |
| 0:05.0 | Our Christmas gathering, you might say. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Dan, the editor of Science and Nature, the monthly magazine from the team behind the Week Junior. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm Curian, the features editor, and it has been quite the year, hasn't it, Dan? |
| 0:19.0 | What a year it has been, yes. |
| 0:21.6 | Our first episode of Mysteries of Science went live on April Fool's Day, make of that what you will. |
| 0:29.4 | And since then, we've enjoyed 15 different episodes, and we've covered everything from, let me see, dragons to dinosaurs, King Tuts Curse, the mysterious |
| 0:41.0 | placebo effect and the brain tingling sensations of a SMR. Yeah, and along the way in every single |
| 0:48.6 | episode, we've had the pleasure of speaking to so many different expert guests from all around the world. |
| 0:55.3 | And we thought, seeing as it's Christmas and it's a time to reflect on the year that's been, |
| 0:59.7 | we're going to revisit some of those interviews, our very favourite, with exclusive clips that we |
| 1:05.2 | didn't include in the original podcast the first time round. |
| 1:08.9 | Fantastic. It's just been such a difficult job to select just these five highlights from a whole year of |
| 1:16.8 | mysteries, but we've done our very best. |
| 1:19.6 | These are our favourite best unheard moments of the podcast. |
| 1:24.5 | And this is Mysteries of Science. |
| 1:33.1 | We have to start with Larry Don, who appeared on the first episode. Oh, Larry. She was on the first episode of season one. That was our Loch Ness Monster |
| 1:38.8 | episode. And she came back in the first episode of season two as well, which was our Halloween special, |
| 1:44.9 | which I absolutely loved making. |
| 1:47.0 | Larry is an author and storyteller, and her passion for fantastical beasts of all shapes |
| 1:52.5 | and sizes meant that she could talk to us about lots of different things. |
| 1:56.5 | And while we were interviewing her for the Halloween episode, she started to tell us about some of the other mythical animals that are said to prowl around in the UK. |
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