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podcast we've got on BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Ben Henderson. Today we're going back to 1970s Nigeria when a zoologist called Bob Golding

helped create one of the country's most popular tourist attractions,

I Baden Zoo.

Bob threw great parties, the right music, the right atmosphere, food, drink, you know people loved his parties.

This is Peaches Golding.

She met Bob in 1976 when he ran the zoo.

One night he was having a party and up came the blue lights from the police.

Two or three police cars came, went to the flat, well of course everybody at the party was thinking,

oh my goodness what on earth is going on here and the police now

We hear that you've got this snake here and Bob said yes they said we've come to see it being fed.

Now Bob had a history with snakes. Growing up in Bristol in the UK he terrified

his grandmother once when he brought one home.

He spent his school holidays working at Bristol Zoo and his affinity with animals

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