| A Good Science Read: 'The Coming Plague' and 'Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story' |
Georgina Ferry and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'The Coming Plague' by Laurie Garrett, and 'Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story' by Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja. |
Frances Ashcroft, Georgina Ferry |
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| A Good Science Read: Masters of Science Writing |
Professor Dinah Birch and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'The Faber Book of Science' edited by John Carey and 'The Golden Mole and other living treasures' by Katherine Rundell. |
Dinah Birch, Frances Ashcroft |
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| A Good Science Read: Metabolism |
Professor Tim Coulsen and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'Burn: the Misunderstood Science of Metabolism' by Herman Pontzer and 'Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death' by Nick Lane. |
Frances Ashcroft, Tim Coulsen |
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| A Good Science Read: 'The Fly Trap' and 'As If Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence' |
Professor Sir Charles Godfray and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'The Fly Trap' by Fredrik Sjöberg and 'As if Human: AI and Artificial Intelligence' by Neil Shadbolt and Roger Hampson. |
Charles Godfray |
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| A Good Science Read: Why Sex Matters |
Professor Russell Foster and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature' by Matt Ridley and 'Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation' by Olivia Judson. |
Russell Foster, Frances Ashcroft |
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| A Good Science Read: A Walk on the Wild Side |
Professor Richard Fortey joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss 'Entangled Life' by Merlin Sheldrake and 'Wilding' by Isabella Tree. |
Richard Fortey, Frances Ashcroft |
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| A Good Science Read: On the Origin of Modern Humans |
Professor Chris Miller and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'Who We Are and How We Got Here' by the Harvard geneticist David Reich. |
Chris Miller, Frances Ashcroft |
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| A Good Science Read: How everything works |
Dr Roger Highfield joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss 'Pain: A Ladybird Expert book' by Irene Tracey and 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson. |
Frances Ashcroft, Roger Highfield |
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| A Good Science Read: How humans changed the landscape and ourselves |
Professor Peter Burge joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss 'Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles' by Jay Owens and 'The Species that Changed Itself or How prosperity reshaped humanity' by Edwin Gale. |
Frances Ashcroft, Peter Burge |
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| A Good Science Read: Evolution - from Fossils to Finches |
Professor Paul Smith and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'Wonderful Life' by Stephen Jay Gould and 'The Beak of the Finch' by Jonathan Weiner. |
Frances Ashcroft, Paul Smith |
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| A Good Science Read: The Secret Life of the Cuckoo |
Professor Richard Boyd joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss 'Cuckoo - Cheating by Nature' by Nick Davies. |
Frances Ashcroft, Richard Boyd |
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| A Good Science Read: The importance of Mathematics and Engineering |
Professor Marcus du Sautoy joins Professor Frances Ashcroft to discuss 'A Mathematician’s Apology' by GH Hardy and 'Exactly: How Engineers Created the Modern World' by Simon Winchester. |
Frances Ashcroft, Marcus du Sautoy |
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| A Good Science Read: The Story of Penicillin |
Professor Matthew Freeman and Professor Frances Ashcroft discuss 'The Mould in Dr Florey's Coat' by Eric Lax |
Frances Ashcroft, Matthew Freeman |
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| A Good Science Read |
Professor Frances Ashcroft gives a short introduction to this exciting new series |
Frances Ashcroft |
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