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Sir John Sulston - Nobel Prize-winning scientist

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC NewsLatest broadcast: on BBC News

Science is constantly changing and deepening our understanding of ourselves and our planet. So is it time to give scientists a more prominent role in the debate about humanity's strategic choices; economic, political and environmental. HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist who has led a Royal Society study into the global impact of population growth two decades on from the Rio Earth Summit. Can science help the human species change its ways? Show less

Contributors

Interviewer:
Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest:
John Sulston

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