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Material World - 20/09/2012

Quentin Cooper explores the use of climate computer modelling to determine future UK energy policy, how flies could help feed the world and how bees find their food.

Quentin Cooper asks how climate computer modelling is being used to determine future UK energy policy. Also on the programme how flies could help feed livestock; could growing protein on larvae be an ingenious solution to food shortages? And how bumblebees find their food in the wild - the first study to look at their behaviour outside the laboratory.

  • Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 9:00PM Mon, 24 Sep 2012
  • Available until 12:00AM Thu, 1 Jan 2099
  • First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 4:30PM Thu, 20 Sep 2012
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  • Duration 30 minutes

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