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Does water divination work?

The row is still raging over whether water divining works.

"Raging" is probably too strong a word, but there's been a lot of argument since a woman in Stratford revealed that her water company had used a diviner with rods to find a leaking pipe.

Rubbish, said the sceptics. There's not a shred of scientific evidence for it. But John Humphrys isn't so sure. He asks Professor Richard Wiseman from the University of Hertfordshire if there's any truth behind it?

(Image: Victorian water diviners, credit: Getty Images)

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