Dinner table phones and the last gingerbread man
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Dinner table phones and the last gingerbread man

B1IntermediateAugust 30, 202621 min

Gwen and April take their dad Paul to court over phones at the dinner table. The girls aren’t allowed their tablets while they eat, but Paul sits down with his personal phone and his work phone and swipes shapes all the way through the meal. He’s on level 7,500. His defence is that he can multitask, though he does admit he can’t quite manage the chatting-to-his-family part. Then Mum is called in as a witness and suddenly it’s three against one… Then Mia takes big sister Beth to court over the last two gingerbread men. Mia s...

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Legs that can outrun the fastest human alive. A net longer than a double deck of glass. A tail that people were sure could crack like a wick. I'm Lauren.

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I'm Cassius. And this is DinerQuest, the show where each week we dig up one brand new true fact about dinosaurs. And we use it to build our very own dinosaur, one piece at a time. We call up real scientists.

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We dig into the newest discoveries, hot out of the ground. And we answer your questions. Did you know the pigeon on your windowsill is a real life dinosaur? And did you know you've almost certainly eaten part of a T-Rex?

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