Kirsty is joined by comedian and musician, Amelia Bayler, as they discuss William Beebe, explorer, naturalist and big fan of having a birthday whenever you need one.

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Kirsty is joined by comedian, Billy Kirkwood, as they discuss Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de Beauvois who was a French zoologist and naturalist...and incredibly unlucky.

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Kirsty is joined by comedian, Laura Quinn Goh, as they discuss Dutch biologist Jan Swammerdan. This episode has everything, wacky experiments, a disappointed father, a cult and a story from Laura that means you'll never look at moths in the same way again.

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Kirsty is joined by comedian, Neil Bratchpiece, as they discuss Cynthia Longfield, also known as Madame Dragonfly, tarantula armies and what constitutes a cool pair of shorts.

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Kirsty is joined by comedian, Amanda Dwyer , as they discuss John Lubbock aka Baron Avebury who found time in between being a partner in a bank, creating the bank holiday as we know it and protecting ancient monuments to get some ants drunk in the name of science.

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Kirsty is joined by comedian, Ross Leslie , as they discuss Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and massive fan of butterfly genitalia. It is better to have owned and lost a Russian country estate than to never have owned one at all.

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Kirsty is joined by comedian, Eddy MacKenzie , as they discuss Maria Sibylla Merian, artist, entomologist and all round girl boss. There is no Church of Eddy MacKenzie...yet.

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Kirsty is joined by comedian, Susan Riddell, as they discuss Harold Maxwell-Lefroy and why he ended up locked in a conflict with bugs that would eventually kill him.

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Kirsty is joined by comedian, Chris Thorburn, as they discuss Lucy Evelyn Cheesman who was great at solo exploration and befriending cannibals but not so great at money management.

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Kirsty is joined by comedian, and long-suffering pal, Tony Sloan, as they discuss Henry Walter Bates who put forward the theory of Batesian mimicry, explored the Amazon and is proof you never know who you'll meet at the library.

Also, this episode contains an error as Bates was born in 1825 not 1892 as stated so we're off to a good start but Kirsty did have a lot of cold medicine that day. It probably contains other errors but this is a comedy podcast first and a facts podcast second. 

If you'd like to hear about Bates' adventures in his own words, read his book 'The Naturalist on the River Amazons'.

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