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Perminder Khatkar

Great Lives: Tej Lalvani on Richard Feynman

Tej Lalvani on Richard Feynman

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Tej Lalvani on Richard Feynman

Tej Lalvani nominates the physicist and bongo playing Richard Feynman as his great life.

4 Extra Debut. Businessman Tej Lalvani chooses the Noble winning (bongo playing) physicist, Richard Feynman. With Matthew Parris. From 2018.

Richard Feynman was a physicist who helped design the atomic bomb and won the Nobel Prize. 

He is the great life choice of businessman Tej Lalvani CEO of his family business Vitabiotics and the newest Dragon on the BBC show Dragon's Den. 

Feynman was also regarded as something of an eccentric and a free spirit who had a passion for playing the bongos. 

Helping to make the case for this great life Tej is joined by the expert witness David Berman, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary University of London. 

Presenter: Matthew Parris 

Producer: Perminder Khatkar

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.

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