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Clear Spot 08:00 - 09:00pmStrange Attractor Clear Spot: Head Heritage Mark Pilkington talks to Ripley’s Believe it Or Not archivist Edward Meyer and author Phil Baker about the ancient art of shrinking human heads, as practiced by the Jivaro (or Shuar) Indians of Ecuador. Why were the heads made? How is it done? Where can I get one? Can you shrink an entire person? All these questions and more will be answered on tonight’s show.

Mark Pilkington is the author of Far Out (published by Disinformation), a collection of Weird Science columns he wrote for the Guardian, and is editor of The Strange Attractor Journal.