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Green wallpaper, green cardigans and green curtains killed thousands of Victorians due to arsenic contained within dyes. At 4:30pm today Wendy Jones discusses poison with James Whorton, author of “The Arsenic Century – How Victorian Britain was poisoned at Home, Work and Play“.

Interesting Conversations 4:30 – 5:00pm, March 11th 2010

Experimental electronica outfit Metamono present this evening’s Clear Spot at 8:00pm.  At 9:00pm Rikke Hansen discusses wolves with anthropologist Garry Marvin in Nature Calls: Animals In Visual Culture. From wolves to crustaceans at 9:30pm when the Glass Shrimp take the helm and spend c90 minutes unspooling the reasons why the cassette tape has had a recent resurgence of interest, with guests The Tapeworm and PhilMRiot.

Susan Finlay discusses “fashionism” with Fiona Scott in Documents – 5:00pm.  Scott is one half of Gort Scott, a design-led architecture and urban design partnership established in 2007. From 5:30pm cuisine for the ears courtesy of Mama Dolores in Kitchen Magic Time. Sue Cooper takes a break from training for the London Marathon to go snow boarding, listen to her audio diary at 5:45pm in Athlete’s Footage.