Rudolph castrated: what you didn’t hear this year
CrowdScience
BBC
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Reindeer castration, plants get chatty and more quirky science revealed in this Christmas special of CrowdScience where we will also be hearing from the people that make this series possible. That’s you – our listeners.
CrowdScience has been on air for just over a year which means we’ve had over 60 adventures. Every time we put a show together there’s a heart-breaking process where amazing facts we wanted to share end up on the cutting-room floor. To celebrate the holidays we’ve gone scavenging for the best untold stories, edgy science facts and incidents from behind the scene. Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producer: Louisa Field
Picture: Reindeer in Snow Credit: Getty Images
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| 0:47.0 | This is Crowd science on the BBC World Service. I'm Marnie Chesterton. |
| 0:57.6 | Each week on this show we take one of your questions about anything scientific |
| 1:01.7 | and seek out the answers wherever in the world they may come from. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello Crowd Science. |
| 1:06.0 | Hi Crowd Science. |
| 1:08.0 | Hello Crowd Science. We are listening to Crowd Science from the BBC. |
| 1:11.0 | We've been on air for just over a year now which means we've had |
| 1:14.2 | over 60 adventures and every time we put a show together there's always this |
| 1:18.7 | heartbreaking process where amazing facts we wanted to share end up on the cutting room floor. |
| 1:24.0 | Now this week we're doing something a bit different and I say we because it's a rather |
| 1:29.7 | crowded studio here at the big British castle in London. Who's here? Say hello everyone. |
| 1:36.1 | Hello. Hello. Hello. I have gathered a bunch of inverted commerce volunteers from the production team time to take the |
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