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	Podcast:		The Why Factor
	Episode:		Plane, Train and Bird Spotting
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:23:04
	Publish Date:		2018-10-29 09:00:00
	Description:		Why do people love plane, train and bird spotting? Novice aviation geek Alys Harte enters the worlds of twitchers, birders, watchers and spotters. She meets Noel Marsh-Giddings, who has flown on the shortest and longest flights on the planet - just for the sake of flying; she goes ‘birding’ on the east coast of England with Ashley Saunders where they have a close encounter with a sparrow hawk (and a photobombing mallard!) and speaks to Prof. Kiyohito Utsunomiya, transport economist and railway fan about the subcultures within subcultures that make up Japanese ‘tetsu’ train spotters. Photo: Man in a field with binoculars. Credit: Getty Creative Images. ISO3000
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