SCIENCE STORIES

By Miscellaneous authors

Synopsis

In these ten absorbing series award-winning authors Naomi Alderman and Philip Ball and guest presenters Tracey Logan Kevin Fong Simon Schaffer and Lindsey Fitzharris take a look at the many amazing events and characters from science's long history. In this collection which runs close to 23 hours in total they throw light on the revolutionary visionaries who defined how we see the world from pioneers and prophets to inventors experimenters and creators. Among the topics explored are feuding dinosaur hunters jumping genes the engine that nearly ran out of steam the day the Earth stopped standing still how laughing gas was discovered the first female professional scientist in Britain and how an eel sparked our interest in electricity. So if you want to know more about a medieval bishop's Big Bang theory how Florence Nightingale saved lives with statistics the medieval equivalent of GPS the woman who tamed lightning Cyrano de Bergerac's designs for a spaceship and what happened when Einstein decided to fix the fridge our presenters are here to fill you in. Helping them discover the fact behind the fiction are a host of scientists and experts including Professor Edith Hall Hannah Fry Tim Spector Marcus du Sautoy Richard Wiseman Natalie Haynes and Tracy Chevalier.

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Narrator Miscellaneous
Length 22hrs 32mins
Catalogue No. 17239
Publisher Findaway; 2023
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