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Oct 2023
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3.1 - For Your Local Definition Of "Down...

Festival of the Spoken Nerd
About this episode

In a surprise first episode of Series 3 (truly, no-one is more surprised than us to be popping up in your feed right now...) Steve tells the truth about the Prime Meridian, Helen brings a song from her new musical "Almost Astronauts", and Matt attempts to divert an apocalyptic future scenario - with maths:


- Steve's bit (00:48)

- Helen's bit (17:01)

- Matt's bit (34:06)


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