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In Our Time

Robert Hooke

Duration: 48 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Robert Hooke, the 17th-century scientist with a wide variety of interests from elasticity to microscopes who fell out with Newton. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
David Wootton
Interviewed Guest:
Patricia Fara
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Iliffe

Duration: 42 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the eye and how it works. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Patricia Fara
Interviewed Guest:
William Ayliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Iliffe
Producer:
Thomas Morris