Stephen Coates
speaker
150 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 14 May
Stephen Coates’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So we're walking through...
One of the largest storerooms in this facility down in the basement with huge antelopes and it's mostly antelopes and gazelles that we've got elephant seals, huge creatures, incredible things collected from all around the world.
Large in terms of the physical size and weight of specimens and they don't
lend themselves well to be moved on the back of a lorry, but that's the only way that you can move them.
Here's a sight, a large zebra in a transport crate.
Richard and his team have spotted signs of the dreaded moth nearby.
It's stored on a bed of inert conservation-grade foam, which is inside a wooden frame, which has been custom-built for it to provide support at all of the relevant points.
And then the whole frame, the whole wooden frame, is covered in a double layer of very thick polythene sheeting, which protects the specimen when it goes into the freezer for freezing, stops ice crystals from forming on the surface.
Some of the things that we've got in the collection are too large
to go into any commercially available freezer.
So there's probably going to have to be some kind of fumigation process that's employed, but that's to be decided.
You're always anxious about handling this material.
So much as we're going to welcome the teams of removal folks that come in to do the work for us, we're going to be watching them like a hawk.
You have to.
We're curators, it's what we do.
We were thrilled to be a part of that preservation of the world's natural heritage.
Tim Dendecker and Alina White of Field & Clegg Bradley Studios.
They're the architects who were designing and managing the building of the new storage and research facility near Reading.
It's going to be the size of about three football pitches.
You've got grinding rooms, fossil grinding rooms.
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