Let’s look back on the series and chat about everything we learnt with another round of particular favourites from the tasting room to keep us hydrated

For the final time this series… cheers!

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As per tradition, here are all our ‘sorry Ben’s’ and technical fuck ups for you all to enjoy. Including a few from our guests…

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So, join us this week for a little treat. From extra topic gems to chats about just how our experts ended up in their roles, here are the bits that we couldn’t squeeze into the main show! 

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This week we’re having a few extra shots from the series

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We’re joined by Soren Hough, a writer and a scientist who completed a PhD in Biochemistry at Cambridge. He has been working with, and writing about, CRISPR since 2014 and is currently a Visiting Scientist in the DNA repair laboratory of Prof Sir Steve Jackson. So really there’s nobody better to answer: CRISPR: What is it, why is it both amazing and scary, and what does this new technological power mean for society?

Sit back, relax, grab a gin and get ready to have your mind boggled. 

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This week we’re tasting Everleaf Marine with our guest Soren Hough

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We’re joined by Pia Hardelid, a Professor of Epidemiology at the University College London. Pia is leading a project called the Kids’ Environment and Health Cohort which is setting up a new national data resource for research into how the local environment affects children’s health as they grow up in England. She’s going to help us answer the question: how can we understand the relationship between children’s health and the environments they grow up in? Join us to find out more. 

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This week we’re tasting Clean G with our guest Pia Hardelid

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This week we’re joined by Dr Simone Cuff, a biomedical researcher who currently works with a major scientific publisher checking scientific papers for research integrity issues and signs of fraud. She’s going to tell us all about the incentives that mean people who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of truth… twist it. 

We promise, this is all true. 

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This week we’re tasting Never Never triple Juniper gin with our guest Dr Simone Cuff

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Our expert is Jeremy Howard, PhD student at the University of Missouri St. Louis. He’s currently studying bumblebees but we’re dragging him back to his previous work as we chatted all things bee way back in series one with Hamish. So, flying squirrels. Why should we research and protect them? Join us to find out. 

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We’re doing something a bit different this week… we’re tasting tonic waters. Join us as we try Fever Tree, Schweppes and Double Dutch with our guest Jeremy Howard.

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We’re joined by Emma Smith, a Journal Development Editor at eLife, an independent nonprofit committed to improving the way scientific research is reviewed and communicated. They’re going to be answering the questions: How do we know what science to trust and does that process work? What can we do to improve it?

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This week we’re tasting Cambridge Curator’s gin with our guest Emma Smith

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We’re joined by Dr. Will J Brownlie, an Environmental biologist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. But don’t worry, Will isn’t the toxic one and nor is this week’s gin. We’re talking Toxic Algae. And more specifically, should we be worried about toxic algal blooms?

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This week we’re tasting Isle of Harris gin with our guest Dr Will J Brownlie

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Our guest is Dr Carole Helfter, an Environmental physicist and Group Leader in Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange and Effects at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. 

She’s going to be talking to us all about Swamp Methane and answering the burning question: Where does it come from and why should we care?

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This week we’re tasting Caorunn with our guest Dr Carole Helfter 

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This week’s guest is going to tell us. We’re joined by Russell Arnott - Marine biologist; oceanographer; science presenter and director of Incredible Oceans CIC, a marine education non-profit organisation. 

Pour yourself a glass of gin – we’ve gone with Dà Mhìle this week – and join us all in a toast. Here’s to Thankton Plankton! 

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This week we’re tasting Dà Mhìle with our guest Russell Arnott

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This week’s guest is Professor of Astrobiology and Space Biotechnology at Cranfield University, David C. Cullen, and he’s got a great one for us…. Is the emerging space tourism sector taking seriously the possibility of human conception occurring during spaceflight and considering the consequences and mitigation strategies?

Something to consider if you’re planning on booking a space flight this weekend.

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This week we’re tasting Moonshot with out guest David C. Cullen

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And the rare sound of Ben's voice!

Join us as we sip our various tipples and chat about the gins and the topics that we've enjoyed this series

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So here's some extra shots from a few of the episodes and our bloopers along the way.

Enjoy

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Sarah hopes they bloody do given how much effort she puts in and the crazy ideas she comes up with to make us more sustainable.

But what about Áine and other young people, how can we keep them engaged when faced with doom and gloom all the time? 

Can a positive focus help guide them to be more sustainable? If so how? 

That’s what we will be discussing this week with our guest, Annabel Collinson, Business Partner & Director of Content at Visions of Soon

And we’ll be pairing this with a little Star of Bombay

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This week we're tasting Star of Bombay with our guest Annabel Collinson, Business Partner & Director of Content at Visions of Soon

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Does it have anything to do with gin?

Well in case of this weeks guest, the answer is yes! But not in the way you think.

We’re talking with Ryan Luke, an ex teacher and now Managing Director of Heart of Suffolk Distillery

Exploring all the reasons why he and others have left or are leaving education

And of course we’ll be drinking some of his gin too, Ivy’s gin to be precise.

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This week we're tasting Heart of Suffolk’s Ivy’s Gin with our guest Ryan Luke

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And we need all the Pangolins we can get right now.

But what exactly is a Pangolin and why should we protect them?

That’s what our guest Charles Emogor, a phd candidate from the University of Cambridge, is going to tell us all about.

And we’ll be doing our bit to help the Pangolin by drinking some Pangolin Gin.

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This week we're tasting Pangolin Gin with our guest Charles Emogor

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Luckily for you our guest this week is Dr Anne Brock, Master Distiller at Bombay Sapphire. 

So she can enlighten us or the process of distilling gin, how they manage to create the same quality consistently and with growing demand, as well as , crafting something new during interesting times, and responding to climate challenges.

You couldn’t get a more perfect episode for World Gin Day.

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This special week leading up to World Gin Day we're tasting Bombay Premier Cru with our guest Dr Anne Brock

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Well, we’re discovering just how interesting these single cell microbes can be. Like ones made of glass, ones with tentacles, ones that know when they are up or down. And we especially like the ones with tiny mouths that eat as if their are slurping spaghetti.

Join us and our guest, Dr Geonoveva Esteban, Professor of Microbial Ecology at Bournemouth University, as we explore the mind blowing world of microbes.

Gin definitely needed.

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This week we're tasting Hendricks with our guest Dr Genoveva Esteban

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This week we’re talking with Dani Cloud, an augmentation and upper-limb prosthetics designer. 

And as well as exploring the extra things we might all like to add to our bodies, we’ll be asking Can your brain adapt to wearing an extra thumb? Could adding a heartbeat into a prosthetic arm change the wearers response to it? & What if instead of an arm, you had a robotic tentacle? 

So grab a gin and enjoy

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This week we're tasting Ten Legs with our guest Dani Clode

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The fact that this week’s guest, Janine Marriott is Public Engagement Manager at Arnos Vale Cemetery, suggests otherwise.

So what do cemeteries have to offer?

Some things might surprise you.

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This week we're tasting Psychopomp Woden gin with our guest Janine Marriott

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And what makes us more happy than the first episode in a new series?

Well, GIN of course!

And this week we're combining gin with happiness itself as we explore 'What makes us happy' with plenty of Opihr and our guest Dr Nic Gibson, a Lecturer in Positive Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University.

Hope it makes you happy too

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This week we're tasting Opihr with our guest Dr Nic Gibson

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This week we’re finally getting everyone together to taste Xoringuer

Luckily we still had some left from Christmas

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We thought it was about time that Ben joined us as our guest!

So this week we're asking ‘what exactly does Ben do?’

And as a change from saying 'Sorry Ben', we're saying 'Sorry Emma' instead as she couldn't be with us. But we look forward to sharing this gin with her in the Tasting Room at some point in the New Year

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So here are all our sins from series 4.

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As always, we couldn't include all of our conversations in the main episode. So we kept some bits on the side to share with you later.

And here they are..

Enjoy

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So, if you’ve listened to that already, you’re probably guessed that this week’s guest is Paul Feig! American Filmmaker, Director, Producer, Writer, Actor, Comedian, Gin maker... and Best dressed man about town

And our question this week is 'Making a film and making a gin, any similarities?'

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As a surprise twist to the end of series 4, we’re bringing you an extra special Tasting Room. This time we’ve got everyone together!

Join Sarah, Áine, Emma and our guest... Can you guess who it is? 

The gin might give it away as we’re tasting Artingstall’s

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We're ending with Whitley Neil Rhubarb and Ginger

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And our subject the Large Hadron Collider

With this week’s guest Dr Sam Gregson, aka the Bad Boy of Science, a particle physicist, science communicator and YouTuber

We’ll be asking what is it, what do they do there and why should we care?

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This week we're tasting Sipsmith

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Yes or No, it doesn’t really matter, it’s all about power, rationality, politics and most importantly planning.

Our guest this week is Jill Ashcroft Campion, a third year PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and lawyer. 

And she’s going to take us through the complex web of infrastructure planning

Thankfully we have also planned plenty of Sipsmith gin too

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But don't fear, Ben in busy in the background and we'll be back on track next week

In the meantime, there's always gin

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This week we're tasting Tanqueray

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Exploring the work that Dr Indrani Lahiri, a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at De Montfort University, has been doing.

Working with the community, blending different areas, blending different people, much like blending a good gin.

And what better gin to pair this with, than a rather resilient Tanqueray, which has been around for hundreds of years

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This week we're tasting Brecon Botanicals Gin

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We’ll find out as we talk with Dr Emma Yhnell from Cardiff University all about the brain, how it breaks down and what we can do to keep it fit and healthy

And of course we’ll be asking what role gin should or shouldn’t play in brain health, whilst drinking some Brecon Botanicals Gin

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This week we're tasting The Oxford Artisan Distillery Physic Gin

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But what do you actually know about how a vaccine is created, tested and rolled out?

Our guest this week is Dr Sean Elias, an immunologist and science communicator based at the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, where the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine was developed.

But we’re not just talking about the Covid19 vaccine, Sean has worked on a number of studies and clinical trials testing vaccines developed against a host of different infectious diseases, including Malaria, Ebola and Salmonella both in the UK and in Africa.  

So join us as we explore vaccines from start to, well, not ever really finished.

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This week we're tasting The River Test

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Hmm well no

Turns out there’s more to fibre optics than just our ability to stream boxsets. 

As our guest Matthew Partridge, cartoonist and writer for ErrantScience and fibre optic expert will tell us.

With fountains, crossbows, sword swallowers, and the Dorset Police; light going boing boing boing down tubes not tubes, rods and crystals like magic; blowing stuff up and also keeping electronics well away from highly flammable alcohol to help improve gin.

Gin like The River Test which we’ll be drinking along the way.

What an illuminating episode this will be.

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This week we're tasting Cape Fynbos

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We’ll be joined by Teresa Perez, a research associate at the Royal Holloway, University of London. 

She’ll be talking about the work that she was involved with as part of Cambridge circular plastic centre as we explore how recycling has come to be seen as the best way to reduce plastic waste in South Africa, and what we can learn to help tackle plastic waste worldwide.

Of course we couldn’t pair this topic with anything other than a South African gin, so we’re drinking Cape Fynbos.

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This week we're tasting Whitby Gin

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What about how the animal moved, fed, or interacted with others?

This week’s guest, Emily Rayfield a Professor in Palaeobiology from the University of Bristol, is going to talk to us all about how computers have helped our understanding of these extinct animals.

Animals like the ammonite on the bottom of this week’s gin bottle from the fossil rich beach of Whitby.

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This week we're tasting Sainsburys’ Taste the Difference Blackfriars Gin

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First to Sainsbury’s for their Taste the Difference Blackfriars Gin, and then on to WHSmiths for a Mills and Boon book!

This week we’re talking with Dr Val Derbyshire, from the University of Derby, about Mills and Boon romance novels. And the question we'll be asking is simply, whether or not we should read them?

So, listen up and don’t be too quick to judge

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This week we're tasting Caleño

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And leading the way with our first episode is Dr Shima Barakat, Director of the Entrepreneurship for Sustainability Programme at the University of Cambridge.

She’ll be talking to us about Leading for Sustainability: What do we need to lead a transformation towards sustainable systems? While we ease ourselves gently back in with a non-alcoholic glass of Caleño.

And of course, we’ll be questioning all those business buzzwords...

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And because we like to over share, we thought you might enjoy listening to some of the behind the scenes stuff that Ben has to cut out.

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But, just like not being able to drink the whole bottle of gin in one sitting, we couldn't include all of the conversation in the main episodes. So Ben has been keeping the leftovers safe for us

So that we could put together a little extra episode for you

Enjoy

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This week we're tasting Sharish gin from Portugal

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We’ll be talking with Emily Hallinan, an archaeologist at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, at the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal. 

Not only about her expertise in old rocks, but also in gin, as Emily also spent quite a bit of time working in the Cambridge Distillery.

And we'll be pairing the conversation with some of her local Sharish gin.

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This week we're tasting Lind and Lime

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Yes, we know, that does sound like an unusually intelligent question for us.

And what we really want to know is: Why do astronomers need so many different telescopes?

So this week we’re talking with Jo Ramasawmy an astrophysicist and AtLAST scientist at UK Astronomy Technology Centre over a glass or two of Lind and Lime.

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This week we're tasting an Apple and Blackberry gin from the Lancashire Gin Family

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You know, the kind of experience that you read about in books, when you struggle thorough something and come out the other end having grown up.

No? Nor can we. 

So this week we’re talking all about Coming of Age with Nic Hilton, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, asking what is maturation and why are YA books obsessed with it?

And we’re maturing along with the apples and blackberries that went into this week’s gin from the Lancashire Gin Family

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This week we're tasting Laura Wall’s Seaside Gins

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This week we’ll be trying to answer this question with Michael Marshall, a science writer and author of The Genesis Quest. 

Apparently it’s going to involve plenty of gloopy liquids.

And talking of liquids, we’ll be drinking Laura Wall’s Seaside Gins.

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This week we're tasting Filliers Oude Graanjenever

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This week, we’re talking to Steven Simmonds, Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven, who’s currently investigating how blood vessels are involved in diseases such as heart failure and dementia.

And given his location, and to prove that Jenever doesn’t just come from Holland, we’re drinking some of Belgium’s Filliers Oude Graanjenever

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This week we're tasting Ginepraio London Dry

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Are you as adaptable as a starfish?

This week, Dr Alice Barbaglio, a Research Advisor at the University of Milan, is going to tell us more about starfish, sea cucumbers and sea urchins. What makes them mutable and the potential for medical applications.

All whilst drinking a sparkling bees knees.

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This week we're tasting Shortcross Rosie’s Garden

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And if not, why not? 

This week we’re talking all about obesity with Dr Giles Yeo, MBE, Principal Research Associate in the Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit at Cambridge University. 

And we’ll be washing it all down with a couple of different Shortcross gins.

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This week we're tasting Castle Rock Winter Gin

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If so, spoiler alert… it’s not quite true!

This week Dr Kaushik Hatti, an AI scientist at University of Dundee, is going to explain the science behind AI. Or, more specifically, machine learning

And hopefully it’ll help us decide if AI is good, or so very bad…’

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This week we're tasting New London Light

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This week we’re joined by Dr Andrew Farrer, a science communicator and Head of Programmes and Delivery at Cambridge Science Centre

Although, the work we're talking about was his PhD, which he completed at the University of Adelaide in South Australia, and involved plenty of teeth scrapping, plaque bashing and dna sequencing

What did he learn, and what could we learn from your bacteria?

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This week we're tasting Slake Sussex Dry

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But this week, we’re learning all about where it came from, and where it could be going.

Of course, we can’t do it alone. This week’s guest is David Lake, a part-time PhD student at the University of Surrey’s 5G and 6G Innovation Centre studying future networking. He's also an Engineering Technologist in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer with DELL. AND he's involved in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). I mean seriously… what an expert! But of course he is talking to us purely in a personal capacity.

And blimey, there's a lot more to the internet than we ever realised

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This week we're tasting Inverroche Amber Gin

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Personally, we don’t know a lot… and even less when we look at our question of the week, ‘how does child health differ around the world, and how has covid impacted on this?’

Luckily our guest, Debra J Jackson, a professor and Takeda Chair of global health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, knows a lot about it

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This week we're tasting Ironbark Wattleseed Gin

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If you’re thinking ‘the ocean, duh’ then, yes… but where exactly, and why is it important to know?! 

Dr. Tom Crawford, from the University of Oxford, is going to give us the answers as he talks to us about ocean pollution.

All whilst we drink some Ironbark Wattleseed Gin from Australia.

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This week we're tasting Adnams Copper House

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We’re making you feel good about your seasonal indulgence, by talking to James Blackshaw - a Scientific Date Engineer and the EMBL-EBI in Cambridge - about which ingredients in a gin and tonic are of surprising scientific interest!

Merry Ginmas 

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We kick off series three with the perfect topic - Gin. A gin tasting, to be precise

At long last, we’re learning how the fuck you taste gin, and what’s the difference between tasting it and drinking it?! And to make things extra special, it’s out first ever live recording!

We’re joined by Emma Stokes, aka The Gin Monkey, who’s going to help us answer our questions. And she’ll be leading us through sampling two, very different, gins

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Please enjoy the fuck ups from series two, as a reminder that even when things go wrong, they can be stupid funny 

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We thought you might be missing us. So, as a special treat, we got you… some bits from the bin. Don’t say we don’t treat you.

Series two had so many gins, and so many conversations, that we didn’t always get to include everything we wanted in each episode. So here are some of the bits we had to leave out.

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Well, this week we’re going to try to answer that with Suw Charman-Anderson, the founder of Ada Lovelace Day… and our first guest with her own Wikipedia page!

Suw will also join us in a glass of Prairie gin, as she speaks to us all the way from America. 

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Something which Áine never manages to spell right first time… but what is it? And why does it exist?

Join us as we try and answer those questions over a glass of Tarquins gin. 

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This week we’re talking all things climate (specifically climate justice) with Dr. Natalie Jones! 

Natalie is a Research associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at the University of Cambridge, and she’ll be joining us for a glass of climate positive Nàdar gin. 

So join us as we ask, who decides how to fix the climate?

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