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Podcast: Verbal Diorama
Episode: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! / The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Description: One doesn't know why. Perhaps it's his luxuriant beard, or his gleaming teeth, or the way he smells faintly of coconuts, but we have taken a shine to this pirate.With different names depending on where you are in the English-speaking world, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (or The Pirates! Band of Misfits) already feels like an anomaly in Aardman's stellar back catalogue.Based on the best-selling books by Gideon Defoe, who also writes the screenplay, The Pirates feels similar, yet also vastly (or should that be avastly?) different to the rest of...