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🗓️ 8 January 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Things A Fish coming to you from the |
0:16.3 | QILs in Covent Garden. |
0:19.0 | My name is Anna Tishinsky, I'm sitting here with Andy Murray, Alex Bell and James Harkin |
0:24.9 | and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the |
0:28.7 | last seven days in no particular order here they are. |
0:33.7 | And that's starting with you Andy. |
0:36.8 | My fact this week is that Czech dear still avoid crossing the Iron Curtain between Germany |
0:42.8 | and the Czech Republic. |
0:45.1 | So they used to be the Iron Curtain which was a very very long electrified fence in between |
0:50.8 | the two countries during the Cold War and at the end of the Cold War the Czech and the |
0:55.1 | German authorities they established a nature reserve going across the country they thought |
0:59.0 | this is a really nice idea. |
1:00.3 | We'll have this huge habitat all sorts of species, we'll have lots of them to play in and |
1:05.6 | there'll be more animals as a result and it'll all be good for biodiversity. |
1:08.8 | It turns out 20 years later that dear on the Czech side just will not cross that border. |
1:12.7 | So what you're saying is that all dear are communists? |
1:16.1 | These are red dear for a nice bit. |
1:20.2 | And the headline from the Wall Street Journal when this study was reported was deep in the |
1:24.5 | forest, Bambeer remains the Cold War's last prisoner. |
1:28.4 | She's a good headline. |
1:30.7 | There's a strip through Germany which was called the Death Strip I think because it was that |
1:35.9 | strip it was sort of like a 5 kilometer area between East and West Germany where you |
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