Sandy Knapp
Botanist Sandy Knapp tells Jim Al Khalili about her adventures in the wilderness of South America collecting plants.
Botanist Sandy Knapp tells Jim Al Khalili about her adventures in the wilderness of South America collecting and studying many thousands of plants from a group vital for human nutrition. She talks about her time growing up in Los Alamos in New Mexico, surrounded by a "sea of physicists" and how her love of the outdoors inspired her to take up botany.
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Meeting Soviet spies in Los Alamos
Duration: 01:27
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- Tue 24 Jun 2014 09:00BBC Radio 4
- Tue 24 Jun 2014 21:30BBC Radio 4
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