2025-10-09
3 分钟Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is Desert Island Discs Postcards,
a collection of funny and heartwarming moments from some of our many castaways.
This postcard comes from the forensic anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black in an interview with Kirsty Young recorded in 2015.
Sue told Kirsty about her passion for forensic work.
Oh,
it's great fun to be given the opportunity and the permission to open up the skin and look inside and see that every single one is different and
if every single one is different that says what can you use about the differences that allow you to say That's who this individual may be.
It's like being taggert, and it's like being morse every single day,
but using science and using anatomy.
In layman's terms, can you give me an example then?
I just mentioned the tattoo, you know,
that you might have body parts that don't show you the tattoo,
and yet you managed to say, this man, this woman, had a tattoo.
on this part of their body.
How can that be the case?
Because all you have to understand is your anatomy.
So when you have a tattoo,
what you do with the needles and what you do with the dye is you place it between the two layers of skin and the molecules of the ink are really large
because you want them to stay there.
You don't want the body to break them down.