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★ 7 · 2020 · Talk · Comedy
Brian Cox and Robin Ince host a close encounter of the first kind with comedian Lucy Beaumont, astronomer Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Prof Tim O’Brien and science presenter Dallas Cambell to ask if UFOs and aliens have visited Earth.
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