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Radio 4,2 mins

Reduced industrial support for science 'a significant problem'

Seven Ages of Science

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Professor Dame Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge, and Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, reflect with Professor Lisa Jardine on the decline of industrial support for British science compared with earlier eras.

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