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World Service,13 Mar 1986,13 mins

Mary Kingsley

I Wish I'd Met

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British writer and filmmaker Edna Healey imagines meeting Mary Kingsley, pioneering Victorian scientist and African explorer who "paddled her canoe up West African rapids and waded through swamps."

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