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Listen to Bill Bryson interview
This Week’s Programme
Mariella Frostrup chairs a discussion about popular science writing with Lord Winston, Fay Weldon and Russell Foster. She interviews Bill Bryson, the winner of the 'Aventis Prize for Science', and talks to novelist Andrew Crumey about how he uses hard science in his novels, in particular in his new novel 'Mobius Dick', a thriller based on the theory of parallel universes and quantum physics.
Programme Book List:
1) A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Publisher: Black Swan
ISBN: 0552997048
2) Mobius Dick
Andrew Crumey
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 0330419919
3) The Cloning of Joanna May
Fay Weldon
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0002233495
4) What Makes Me Me
Robert Winston
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
ISBN: 140530359X
5) The Rhythms of Life
Russell Foster, Leon Kreitzman, Lewis Wolpert (Foreword)
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1861972350
Books recommended by Bill Bryson:
6) Magic Universe
By Nigel Calder
Publisher: OxfordUniversity Press
ISBN: 0198507925
7) The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Matt Ridley
Publisher: Perennial
ISBN: 0060556579
8) Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable
Brian Clegg
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
ISBN: 1841196509
Books recommended by Fay Weldon
9) Rats, Lice and History
Hans Zinsser
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0141390301
10) The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0140144811
11) The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 014027605X
12) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Books recommended by Russell Foster:
13) Simple Experiments with Insects
H Kalmus
Publisher: Heinemann Educ.
ISBN: 0435594958
Books recommended by Andrew Crumey:
14) The Universe in a Nutshell
Stephen William Hawking
Publisher: Bantam Press
ISBN: 0593048156
Books recommended by Robert Winston:
15) Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
16) Nineteen Eighty-four
George Orwell
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