How rats were trained to clear landmines
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How rats were trained to clear landmines

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202610 min
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Hello and welcome to Witness History with me, Nikki Edwards. If you're already a regular listener, feel free to skip ahead a bit. But if you're new here, then welcome. We're podcast that takes you back to a moment in history told by the people who are there.

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Episodes are just nine minutes long and come out every weekday. So if that sounds like your kind of thing, make sure you subscribe and turn on your push notifications. This is the story of how one of the world's most demonised animals was trained to save human lives.

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It's 2002. We're on a plane in Tanzania at the foot of the Ulugaru Mountains. We are around 7.30 in the morning. The sun is hanging low and then you have this special light, this kind of magic window of the day. Bart Wedgens is watching a mind detection training session on a purpose-built minefield,

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