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Hello, welcome to another Rahalistaba Book Club. This week I've been reading The Secrets of Our DNA by Professor

Turi King, who joins us now. Hello, Toey. Love to meet you. Nice to meet you. Thanks so much for doing this.

For those people who may not be aware of you, I can't believe there is anyone, but could you tell us

a little bit about yourself before we start? Okay, so I am probably best known for having led

the identification of King Richard III after we found him in a car park. I do a television series with Stacey Dooley called DNA Family Secrets,

where I help trace family members for people,

and more recently have been involved in sequencing the genome of Hitler.

Yes, well, I mean, nearly everything that's in this book is right in my street in terms of, I mean, I love sort of,

DNA is so interesting and exciting, I think, from an archaeological perspective, but also this is,

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