World Radio

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics just concluded that researchers should find ways to avoid experimentation on animals. 'Green and Pleasant', last week's Fear on Four on BBC7 (which first aired in 1991) suggested a rather more blood-curdling means of persuading them. A missing cosmetics manufacturer is being kept hostage by an animal rights terrorist - she's just had acid dripped in her eyes and been irradiated by heat lamps, but is now about to face her worst nightmare...