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Rats may make some of us scream, but some scientists are training rats to help save lives. This BBC World Service documentary looks at the complex relationship between human beings and one of our oldest camp followers. | |
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New York is a city of skyscrapers. It also has hundreds of miles of sewers, and has been dubbed “Ratropolis.” The BBC’s Mark Lewis talks with New Yorkers who fear rats, and those who write poems about rats. He speaks to rat exterminators, and a journalist who spent a year observing rats in a New York City alley, learning about his own psyche in the process. |
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In East Africa, rats are more than a nuisance -- they eat crops and food. In Northern Mozambique, young boys hunt rats, and their mothers cook them. But rats spread disease, including the bubonic plague. We listen to a community theatre group in Tanzania that is using its art to spread the message that it is not safe to eat rats – or to let them eat your food. We also learn how trainers in Tanzania are harnessing rats’ intelligence, and are teaching giant African pouch rats to find landmines. |
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| THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world. |
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