A series of six programmes. Good ideas, plus pencil and paper, j ars of chemicals or greenhouses of plants are no longer enough to make a scientist. To carry out research today, nearly all scientists, from theoretical physicists to experimental psychologists, need the support of an institute or university.
Colin Tudge passes through some of the leading laboratories, here and abroad, and discovers what makes them and their staff tick.
1: International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Producer DEBORAH COHEN
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)