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| Archive Hour, The | ...1999 is the 40th anniversary of C P Snow's lecture, `The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution'. The two cultures were the scientific community and the literary establishment. Panellists Susan Greenfield, LEWIS WOLPERT, Gillian Beer and Simon Jenkins debate the motion: `This house believes that 40 years after CP Snow's lecture, Britain is still a nation of two cultures'. Chairman Melvyn Bragg ... |
| Bookclub | ...Scientist LEWIS WOLPERT joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss Malignant Sadness, an account of his battle with acute depression, which combines his experiences and information about diagnosis and treatment, with excerpts from poems by other suffers including Shelly and Gerald Manley Hopkins.... |
| Confucius | ...Biologist LEWIS WOLPERT examines: 'To say you know when you know, and to say you do when you do not, that is knowledge'.... |
| Daydreaming Molecules | ...Sir James Black, 1988 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, talks about his life and career. Interviewer: Professor LEWIS WOLPERT.... |
| Fruits Of The Earth | ...Developmental biologist LEWIS WOLPERT explains why the most important event in our lives is not birth, marriage or death but gastrulation - an early phase in the development of a human embryo.... |
| Inspiration | ...The first in a six-part series of the panel game in which inventions, discoveries and design are subjected to quizzical investigation. Chairman Chris Stuart is joined at the Science Museum by team captains Professor LEWIS WOLPERT and Adam Hart-Davis and guests Sue Nelson and Johnny Ball.... |
| Kubla Coleridge | ...Richard Holmes travels in the footsteps of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and looks for the origins of his poem `Kubla Khan' in the landscapes of Coleridge's youth. He also looks at the poet's drug addiction, his interest in science and discoveries, and his wish to craft a romantic myth. With contributions from LEWIS WOLPERT, Stevie Smith, John Henry and Andrew Mackenzie.... |