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World Service,24 Oct 2003,22 mins

Concorde's Last Flight

Science In Action

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The last flight of the supersonic passenger aircraft Concorde, which went into service in 1969, and the future of supersonic aircraft technology. Investigating the possible origin of life in bubbling clay deep in the ocean. The Australian fossil that might be the first vertebrate. Looking for fossil remains of our earliest ancestors in Kenya with Meave and Louise Leakey.

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