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Don't miss: Altered Carbon anime and Attenborough reads The Peregrine

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Don't miss: Altered Carbon anime and Attenborough reads The Peregrine

This week, listen as David Attenborough reads nature classic The Peregrine, learn how skyscrapers and railway cuttings offer unlikely oases for wildlife, and watch an Altered Carbon anime spin-off

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How to make a sourdough starter and delicious sourdough bread

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How to make a sourdough starter and delicious sourdough bread

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Greenwood review: Can humanity survive a tree apocalypse?

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Greenwood review: Can humanity survive a tree apocalypse?

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The Doors of Eden review: A gripping alternative biology tech-thriller

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Make kimchi at home by cultivating a friendly microbial ecosystem

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Make kimchi at home by cultivating a friendly microbial ecosystem

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Don't miss: Netflix's Altered Carbon, Reply All and our future fossils

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Don't miss: Netflix's Altered Carbon, Reply All and our future fossils

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Pancake day: A recipe for pancakes and the science of how it works

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For All Mankind review: A superb alternative history of the space race

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For All Mankind review: A superb alternative history of the space race

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Millions of hairy tarantula skins could be used to mop up oil spills

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Umami: How to maximise the savoury taste that makes food so satisfying

Food tastes satisfying thanks to the amino acid glutamate, which stimulates the umami taste. Sam Wong explains how to boost it in your recipes

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Sci-fi podcast Down asks what's really in the deepest holes on Earth

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Color Out of Space: Another Nicolas Cage film that's so bad it's good

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How tempering chocolate hacks its crystalline structure

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What would our lives be like if Amazon or Tinder ran an entire city?

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