Briefing Chat: How Dolly Parton left her mark on science
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Briefing Chat: How Dolly Parton left her mark on science

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 28, 202614 min

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Hi listeners, Benjamin here. Welcome to the Friday edition of The Nature Podcast. It's The Briefing Show where we talk about a couple of stories from The Nature Briefing. Joining me this week is Lizzie Gibney. Lizzie, how are you doing today? Hello Ben, I am good. Thank you.

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Well, first story this week. I mean, it's a sad story on the face of it, of course. The world lost an icon this week with the death of Dolly Parton, who I think it's fair to say universally loved across the board and perhaps not the most obvious choice to talk about on the Nature Podcast. But Lizzie, you've been diving in to the scientific aspect

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to her life, I suppose. Yes. So when this news came through, I don't know what it was like for you, but all of my WhatsApp chats lit up, like everybody seems to have loved Dolly Parton from all walks of life and in all ways. And then I found myself in this quite unique situation

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