Podcasts and Interviews

‘Unstoppable: Florence Bell’ – interview on ‘Discovery’ BBC World Service 27th May 2024

‘DNA Papers’ – Episode 12 – the stories behind the X-ray work of Rosalind Franklin & Maurice Wilkins that were so crucial in unravelling the double-helix – 6th Nov 2023

‘DNA Papers’ – Episode 9 – a panel discussion about the role of scientist Erwin Chargaff in the story of DNA…(and how his crucial discoveries also owed much to wool…) – 9th Aug 2023

‘DNA Papers’ – Episode 6 – a panel discussion about how, thanks to scientists William Astbury and Florence Bell, X-ray studies of the humble wool fibre helped weave a path to discovering the structure of DNA – 4th April 2023

‘The Man Who Almost Discovered the Double-Helix’ – podcast for BBC HistoryExtra 30th March 2023

‘DNA Papers’ – Episode 1 – a panel discussion about how 19th century Swiss physiologist Friedrich Miescher washed pus from old surgical bandages and in the process discovered…DNA! February 2023

‘Florence Bell: An unsung heroine of DNA’ – Interview with Dr. Julia Ravey for the Naked Scientists BBC podcast 19th June 2022

‘100 Years of Insulin’ – Interview with Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales – broadcast 7th June 2022

‘The Birth of Insulin -a Scientific Drama’ – Interview for BBC History Magazine podcast – broadcast 31st May 2022

Insulin: the Discovery That Transformed Diabetic Care – a discussion with fellow guests Alison Li and Viktor Jörgens on ‘The Forum’, BBC World Service, broadcast on 26th May 2022

‘Unravelling the story of insulin – ‘Game of Thrones’ except with lab coats and pipettes – Interview with Andrew Vine of The Yorkshire Post 26th May 2022

How Insulin Changed the World…Interview with presenter Sean Moncrieff on NewsTalk Radio in Ireland 11th March 2022

Why did winning the 1923 Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin leave Canadian scientist Fred Banting…utterly furious? – Interview with Canadian Talk Radio 630 CHED AM – 14th Jan 2022

What lessons does the story of insulin have for us today? – Interview with ‘The Times’ Radio 11th Jan 2022

One hundred years since the discovery of insulin – a medical milestone – Interview with ‘Naked Scientists’ podcast on BBC5Live – 5th Jan 2022