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Radio 4. My My cast away this week is the forensic anthropologist Professor Sue Black.

She leads a team of world-renown with everyone from Murder Squad detectives to the United Nations

knocking on the doors of her lab, looking for answers.

Through her painstakingly detailed work, she is a teller of truths, a woman who uses her scientific skill to determine how people,

often in the most terrifying and complex circumstances, have met their end.

Her interest in the human body started with a brilliant biology teacher and

Grisley though it seems surely it must be the case that a part-time teenage job in a butcher shop

enewered her to the blood, bones and viscera that would become her stock in trade.

Her work covers an impressive range from helping identify the human remains of the victims of the

Asian tsunami to providing crucial information

for the conviction of Scotland's largest pedophile ring. In Kosovo she gathered evidence

against Slobedan Melosovich for crimes against humanity and she's recently

been busy deciphering images of torture from Syria.

Holding her nerve and keeping her focus then are essential. I say to myself I did not

cause this I am not responsible for this I could not have stopped this I am here

to find the answers. So welcome Sue Black. Before we begin, I think it's worth

just letting Listers know that because of what you do, some of what we're likely to discuss this morning is graphic and inevitably I suppose

centres on the physical nature of death. I quoted you as saying there that you are

there to find answers. You find them in the tiniest nooks and

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