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Life Story

on BBC Two England

Following on from the Genes Debate, an opportunity to see the 1987 Bafta-Award winning drama which tells the story of the race to unravel the mystery of DNA - the secret of life.
Written by William Nicholson , this Horizon special stars Jeff Goldblum
Tim Pigott-Smith
It's 1951 and two of the brightest, brashest young men at Cambridge are racing to make the vital scientific breakthrough. The prize is fame, glory, and almost certainly a Nobel prize.
One of the great true detective stories of the century, the discovery gave birth to modern genetics, and now 40 years on, is having an unimagined impact on life in the 1990s.
Executive producer Robin Brightwell Director Mick Jackson

Contributors

Written By:
William Nicholson
Unknown:
Jeff Goldblum
Unknown:
Tim Pigott-Smith
Producer:
Robin Brightwell
Director:
Mick Jackson
Jim Watson:
Jeff Goldblum
Francis Crick:
Tim Pigott-Smith
Rosalind Franklin:
Juliet Stevenson
Maurice Wilkins:
Alan Howard
Raymond Gosling:
Nicholas Fry
Vittorio Luzzati:
John Moreno
Sir Lawrence Bragg:
Geoffrey Chater
Erwin Chargaff:
Lyndon Brook
Elizabeth Watson:
Betsy Brantley
JT Randall:
Anthony Benson
Max Perutz:
Clive Panto
John Kendrew:
Rupert Massey

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