Professor Alice Roberts
Season 4 Episode 12
Scientist, Author and Broadcaster Professor Alice Roberts sits down with Robin and Josie this week to talk about the challenges of turning science TV shows into popular science books and why she should read more fiction. There’s also chat about Stevie Smith poems leading to hypothermia, great new pop biology books and some Carl Sagan controversy.
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Reading List
Alice recommends:
Don’t Die Young: An Anatomist’s Guide to Your Organs and Your Health by Alice Roberts
The Invention of Nature buy Andrea Wulf
The Complete Human Body by Alice Roberts
Human Anatomy by Alice Roberts
The work of Stephen J Gould
The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Robin recommends:
Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith
The Incredible Human Journey by Alice Roberts
Neanderthal Man by Svante Pääbo
Josie recommends:
Lost Villages of England by Leigh Driver
Welcome to Pyongyang by Charlie Crane & Nick Bonner
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