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Feb 2025
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The Happy Pod: The 'terrible' artist in ...

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Meet the artist who describes his own work as 'terrible', but has been getting commissions from around the world. Also: the strip performer entertaining the elderly, and the long-lost tomb of King Thutmose II

Presenter: Alan Smith. Music composed by Iona Hampson

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