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#51 - Oboe Reeds

From singing nightingales, to a belligerent ducks. Chloe Veltman explores the painstaking art of making an oboe reed.

Gouging, scraping and chopping. The reporter Chloe Veltman shows us the painstaking art of making an oboe reed, and how it can be the difference between sounding like a singing nightingale, or a belligerent duck.

James Ward introduces another curious talk about a subject that may seem boring, but is actually very interesting.... maybe.

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