An exploration of the life and times of the polymath Sir Kenelm Digby by MIKE WALKER
Kenelm Digby (1603-65) was a friend to Galileo, Descartes, Ben Jonson and Oliver Cromwell.
He was a diplomat, a privateer. an alchemist, a poet, a lover and a philosopher. He was called the mirror of his times and the touchstone of his age, and yet he is almost forgotten. Why is this?
Readers LIANE AUKIN and DAVID BUCK
With DR CEDRIC BROWN
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBC Bristol