Anna Walker
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274 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 2 Jul
Anna Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hibernating.
I'm sure I've seen films where people are traveling across the universe and they put themselves into these
stasis mode into these pods where they don't have to breathe, don't have to eat, so that when they get to the other side, when there are favourable conditions, they can wake up again.
Hang on a second, Lars.
Hang on a second.
Are you telling me that there are bacteria that are thousands of years old that went in at the time of the mummies that we are now reawakening into the world?
That sounds like a horror film waiting to happen.
Hmm, I'm still not convinced.
Sounds a little bit too much like a bacterial Jurassic Park to me.
But what a skill for bacteria to have, time travelling in stasis.
Although producing spores isn't the only way to negotiate life's hardships.
What do you mean?
So this is like being stuck on a desert island with your family.
And rather than everyone trying to pick who they're going to cannibalize, one person just puts their hand up and says, Hi, don't worry, I'll just kill myself and you can all eat me.
That almost makes bacteria sound altruistic.
Because while some species will happily go to war to survive, others will sacrifice themselves for family.
When modern medicine is faced with that kind of evolving bacterial defence system, it's no wonder scientists face a constant battle to combat disease.
An analysis of diseases in 2019 found that bacterial infections were linked to over seven and a half million deaths every year.
That's one in eight deaths worldwide.
There are numerous facilities around the world researching bacteria and diseases, including why they become resistant to antibiotics.
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