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Inventors Imperfect

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

New series Adam Hart-Davis presents the programme that explores the lives of extraordinary scientists, inventors and innovators. 1: James Ferguson. He began as a lowly shepherd boy but Ferguson rose to become a famous teacher, astronomer and populariser of his science. He produced globes, astronomical clocks and mechanical cranes while making ends meet by painting miniatures of the great and good. Producer John Byrne

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