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28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Lisa Jardine explores how scientists became separated from wider society, as more laboratories were established during the 18th century. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Lisa Jardine explores an age in which scientists took leaps of faith. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Lisa Jardine describes how an Age of Exploration encouraged a keen interest in the natural world, promoting botany from a hobby to a serious science. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Lisa Jardine explores what's driving science in the 21st century: curiosity, politics, profit or PR?
28 minutes
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Lisa Jardine explores how the advent of mass manufacture in the Midlands changed scientific endeavour from a gentlemanly pursuit into a gritty profitable factory-based industry. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Lisa Jardine explores the birth of modern science in Restoration England: an age of ingenuity, when mechanically minded citizens pioneered a new way of thinking about the world. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Lisa Jardine explores how the demands of war mobilised science long before WWII. Show more
