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Radio 4,2 mins

SeriesSeries 7

Ed Byrne doesn’t like the sound of the Spider Goat

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Scientist Phillip Ball explains the uses of a spider goat, which can provide spider silk when milked, but Ed Byrne can’t get his head around the name and the moral implications of mixing species, no matter how useful it may be.

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