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Professor Sandy Primrose’s very varied career has included being an academic undertaking research, a senior manager in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostics industries and managing programmes for government on detection of food fraud and the safety of genetically modified food. In his spare time, Sandy is a very keen gardener and lectures extensively on botanical themes including ecology, plants as drugs and sources of foods, and their role in local traditions.

His talk ‘The Tale of two Poppies’ gives us an insight into the role of the opium poppy and field poppy in medicine and war

Cost £3