Coming up this week on the Naked Scientists radio show and podcast we have some airy experts; Jonathan Shanklin (British Antarctic Survey) will be telling us how he discovered the hole in the ozone layer and how it is looking today and John Grattan (University of Wales Aberystwyth) will discuss his research on a volcanic eruption which in 1783 killed 30,000 British people.
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