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21st Century Dodos by Steve Stack
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21st Century Dodos

A Collection of Endangered Objects (and Other Stuff)

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Narrator Steve Stack

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Length 2 hours 53 minutes
Language English
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A fond farewell to the many inanimate objects, cultural icons and general stuff around us that find themselves on the verge of extinction.
Weโ€™ve all heard of the list of endangered animals, but no one has ever pulled together a list of endangered inanimate objects.
Until now, that is.
Steve Stack has catalogued well over one hundred objects, traditions, cultural icons and, well, other stuff that is at risk of extinction.
Some of them have vanished already.
Cassette tapes, rotary dial phones, half-day closing, milk bottle deliveries, Concorde, handwritten letters, typewriters, countries that no longer exist, white dog pooโ€ฆ
โ€ฆall these and many more are big a fond farewell in this nostalgic, and sometimes irreverent, trip down memory lane.

Steve Stack is a writer and journalist. His work has appeared in the Observer, Times, Private Eye and many other publications. He is generally thought to be quite a nice guy.

Steve Stack is a writer and journalist. His work has appeared in the Observer, Times, Private Eye and many other publications. He is generally thought to be quite a nice guy.

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โ€˜Chummy 1970s and 80s nostalgiaโ€™ GUARDIAN โ€˜Best toilet book Iโ€™ve read in a whileโ€™ BEN HATCH, author of ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET? โ€˜A very funny collection of things that have gone out of fashionโ€™ JEN CAMPBELL, author of WEIRD THINGS CUSTOMERS SAY IN BOOKSHOPS Expand reviews
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