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Galway Beans

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Last broadcast on Sun, 1 Mar 2009, 17:05 on BBC Two (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Neil Oliver discovers how it was that mysterious flotsam, including beans and two corpses, washed up on the Galway shoreline via the Gulf Stream, and inspired Columbus's accidental discovery of America.

Credits

Presenter
Neil Oliver

Broadcasts

  1. Tue 9 Sep 2008
    13:25
    BBC Two
  2. Tue 21 Oct 2008
    13:25
    BBC Two
  3. Tue 2 Dec 2008
    13:25
    BBC Two
  4. Tue 6 Jan 2009
    13:25
    BBC Two
  5. Sun 1 Mar 2009
    17:05
    BBC Two

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5 minutes

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