E77 BEARDS

Simon trims. Bruce goes for the hot towel.

Beards have been around forever. Protecting, attracting, warming, styling, everything you can do with a man's face is in the hair. This episode explains the quirks and foibles of beards and aims to demystify them for the 50% of listeners who can't grow one! As always, click on the pics to delve deeper.

Here we are!

Style list

Military Beards

Operation Barbarossa

The Bluebeard Story

ZZTop

Bearded animals

Chopin's Beard

Beard Baubles

Bee Bearding

A BBC Interval Programme on Beards

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p042r2tw/player

Disposable razors

Finally, even more beard facts