Darwin Festival 09.08.24 - Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Sandra Herbert
This week historian Sandra Herbert tells how she retraced Darwin's footsteps to the Galapagos in search of rock samples to prove his volcanic theories were right...
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Darwin Festival 09.08.12 - Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Sir Terry Pratchett
This week we're in conversation with Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the multi-million selling Discworld series. We find out what inspired 'The Science of Discworld 3: Darwin's Watch', get Richard Dawkins into holy orders and explore a world without Darwin...
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Darwin Festival 09.08.04 - Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Brian Rosen
Darwin's first book was on coral reefs. Brian Rosen, from the Natural History Museum in London,takes up the story...
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Darwin Festival 09.07.28 - Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Sir John Sulston
This week we're in conversation with Nobel laureate Sir John Sulston, the man behind the human genome project. He tells how he went from chemist to biologist to work on a tiny worm, C. elegans, that laid the foundations for the sequencing of the human genome.
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Darwin Festival 09.07.21 - Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Ruth Padel
Poet and Darwin-descendent Ruth Padel talks about how the history books led her to write "Darwin, a life in poems", an anthology of fifteen poems charting the major events of Darwin's life.
About - Darwin Festival 2009 from the Naked Scientists
What has evolution got to do with us? Bringing some of the world's top minds to Cambridge, the Darwin
Festival celebrates the enduring influence of Darwin's ideas 150 years after the publication of The Origin of Species, the book
that rewrote the way we see the world.
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