{"product_id":"book-ha9l","title":"Science Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Bone Wars 10 June 2015\u003cbr\u003eThe engine that ran out of steam 17 June 2015\u003cbr\u003eDNA's Third Man 24 June 2015\u003cbr\u003eHow Perkin brought purple to the people 1 July 2015\u003cbr\u003eSeeing is Believing - The Leviathan of Parsonstown 8 July 2015\u003cbr\u003eSubmarine for a Stuart King 6 January 2016\u003cbr\u003eHow an eel sparked our interest in electricity 13 January 2016\u003cbr\u003eThe meteorite and the hidden hoax 20 January 2016\u003cbr\u003eThe duchess who gatecrashed science 27 January 2016\u003cbr\u003eEinstein's Fridge 3 February 2016\u003cbr\u003eFlorence Nightingale: Statistician 18 May 2016\u003cbr\u003eChaucer's Astrolabe - The Medieval GPS 25 May 2016\u003cbr\u003ePaul Ehrlich's 'Magic Bullet' and the Cure for Syphilis 1 June 2016\u003cbr\u003eMaxwell's Demon 8 June 2016\u003cbr\u003eBlood Banks 15 June 2016\u003cbr\u003eThe Day The Earth Stopped Standing Still 30 November 2016\u003cbr\u003eHow Much Testosterone Makes You a Man 7 December 2016\u003cbr\u003eThe man who predicted deforestation and climate change 200 years ago 14 December 2016\u003cbr\u003eThe Woman Who Tamed Lightning 21 December 2016\u003cbr\u003eMesmerism 28 December 2016\u003cbr\u003eJumping Genes 4 January 2017\u003cbr\u003eThe Birth of Photography 11 January 2017\u003cbr\u003ePavlov and his Dogs 7 June 2017\u003cbr\u003eThe Medieval Bishop's Big Bang Theory 14 June 2017\u003cbr\u003eThe Man Who Found Physics in Shells, Seeds and Bees 28 June 2017\u003cbr\u003eCaroline Herschel and the Comets 5 July 2017\u003cbr\u003eA wolf, a goat and some cabbages 22 November 2017\u003cbr\u003eThe Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars 29 November 2017\u003cbr\u003eLise Meitner: Humanitarian physicist\u003cbr\u003ewho unlocked the science of the atom bomb 6 December 2017\u003cbr\u003eHow Humphry Davy discovered laughing gas 13 December 2017\u003cbr\u003eMichael Faraday and his 'instructess' in chemistry 20 December 2017\u003cbr\u003e17th-Century Space Flight: The Real Cyrano de Bergerac 13 June 2018\u003cbr\u003eUrea and the Wohler Myth 20 June 2018\u003cbr\u003eDescartes' Daughter 27 June 2018\u003cbr\u003eHypatia: The Murdered Mathematician 4 July 2018\u003cbr\u003eMary Anning and Fossil Hunting 11 July 2018\u003cbr\u003eEddington's Eclipse and Einstein's Celebrity 12 December 2018\u003cbr\u003eLucretius, Sheep and Atoms 19 December 2018\u003cbr\u003eKepler's Snowflakes 26 December 2018\u003cbr\u003eLady Mary Montagu's Smallpox Experiment 2 January 2019\u003cbr\u003eIbn al-Haytham and How We See 9 January 2019\u003cbr\u003eGalileo's lost letter 13 August 2019\u003cbr\u003eMadame Lavoisier's Translation of Oxygen 20 August 2019\u003cbr\u003eIgnaz Semmelweiss: The Hand Washer 27 August 2019\u003cbr\u003eRamon Llull: the medieval prophet of computer science 3 September 2019\u003cbr\u003eAlexis Carrel and the immortal chicken heart 10 September 2019\u003cbr\u003eMary Somerville, pioneer of popular science writing 11 December 2019\u003cbr\u003eSophia Jex-Blake, first woman doctor in Scotland 18 December 2019\u003cbr\u003eIsaac Newton and the story of the apple 25 December 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49355540496688,"sku":"BDha9l","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/376196-ha9l-Square.jpg?v=1734392184","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ha9l","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}