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DiscoveryScience Stories: Series 4Episodes

    Humphry Davy

    4/4The story of how Humphry Davy discovered laughing gas in 1799.

    Lise Meitner

    3/4How physicist Lise Meitner unlocked the science of the atom bomb that cost Hitler dearly

    Maria Merian

    2/4How a 13-year old girl mapped metamorphosis in the 1600s. Naomi Alderman presents

    Alcuin of York

    1/4Philip Ball dives into the Dark Ages to reveal the author of the river crossing riddle