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Kat Arney is an award-winning science writer, broadcaster and author. She co-presented the Naked Scientists BBC Radio show for 15 years and now presents and produces the monthly Naked Genetics podcast, in association with the Genetics Society. She has fronted several BBC Radio 4 science documentaries, and wrote and presented the comedy factual Radio 4 series Did the Victorians Ruin the World? with her sister, science comedian Helen Arney.