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Tim Hayward has been in and around professional kitchens for years - and has long seen bacteria as the enemy, attempting to kill them at every opportunity and in every possible way. In this three-part series, he starts to wonder if things are quite as simple as that and, before long, discovers that these tiny organisms are unlike anything he had ever imagined. In this first episode, Tim climbs aboard the Magic School Bus to go on a bacteria hunt, gets shrunken down to the size of a microbe, and witnesses time travel and evolution in an Erlenmeyer flask. Features: Laura Hug, environmental microbiologist, University of Waterloo Richard Lenski, evolutionary biologist, Michigan State University Justin Stewart, evolutionary biologist, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Presenter: Tim Hayward Producer and sound design: Richard Ward Executive Producer: Rosamund Jones A Loftus Media production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4