Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent,

Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

All right.

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

And don't get us started on Mel.

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you

travel with us. P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. Tenbirds have changed the world.

Stephen Moss's new book.

He is also a producer but the author of a book that reveals to me again and again, language is important and the word

extinction is frightening.

How many extinctions has there been since the creation of the earth in the bombardment of three and a half to four billion years ago.

But this one, the Dodo bird turns out to be the author of the word extinction that enters into the vocabulary of the century since he was first

discovered. I believe it was the 16th century when a ship called air and the dodo no longer exists but the word extinction is now important for

those who move to save or protect or in some way worry about the habitats and the destruction of our birds.

The humble dodo, I learned from you that when the Dutch first found him, they call him the

wallow birds and they regarded him as

lozome. What happened to him? Why did what did they go away on the Mauritius

island suddenly, Stephen? Well what I hadn't realized about the Dodo was that unlike other oceanic islands that were colonized by humans during the sort of age of empire if you like in the 16th, 17th, 18th centuries, Maricious was not inhabited by people. So unlike America,

unlike New Zealand, unlike Australia where humans were there already. Maricious was a place where the Dodo lived and it had

evolved not to have to fly because why would it have to fly if there's no

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