Penny Sarchet

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1,083 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

Penny Sarchet’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The World, the Universe and Us · Chris Packham on the Untold Story of Evolution · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And there's a bit of that, but a lot of it is kind of saved as a key question at the end.

I was wondering what the thinking there was about sort of saving some of the evidence for the end so that you could have the sort of more pacey story in the middle.

Yeah, I'd agree.

But then the appendix at the end, the evidence, and you do go through sort of a key question in each one and the actual fossils that got us there.

The idea of providing evidence for evolution, it took me back sort of 20 years to the Bush administration and creationism and intelligent design.

And remember, there was a real time then where evolutionary biologists were feeling that they really had to fight and defend evolution as a science.

Do you think the environment is better now or we can't take it anymore?

I wondered in all of sort of deep time, the evolution of life, if you could for a moment travel back, where would you go?

What would you want to see?

What a way to go.

And then also I enjoyed in the series, you go to meet not just the five key animals that star in each episode.

You also go to see sort of modern relatives or modern analogues for key past ancestors.

So you meet all kinds of animals in the show.

I wondered if you had any particular standout favourites.

You also lead some elephants through the forest at one point.

That's an incredible shock.

I really liked the lungfish.

Oh, the lungfish.

So good.

Yeah.

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