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Hive Mind by Simon Bovey First broadcast - BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Drama, 19 July 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t1wcn "It was Albert Einstein who said that if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left..." Spring, 2019: The honeybee is now officially extinct. On his farm, Sam Clark struggles to raise a crop. Every spring an army of migrant workers, led by foreman Amra Walczak, descends on Sam's farm to pollinate by hand. It is a laborious process, but it works. This spring, however, science offers a controversial new solution. Honeybots, tiny robots that are, in essence, crawling bees, have been developed -- and Sam has put his farm forward for a trial. Once released, thousands of Honeybots course through Sam's fields, pollinating the flowers in a fraction of the time it takes Amra and her team. Their job done, the honeybots return automatically to their hive chest. That evening, however, dead birds and mice are found in the fields the Honeybots have worked. Tony Bell as Sam Clark Ania Sowinski as Amra Walczak Michael Shelford as Jackson Alison Pettitt as Olivia David Seddon as Paddick Lloyd Thomas as Jan Directed by Marc Beeby Duration - 43 min
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