Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Electricity

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  1. Conductors and Semiconductors

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the physics of electricity: why some materials conduct it and others do not, and how these properties can be usefully exploited.

    23 February 2012

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    Featuring: Frank Close, Jenny Nelson, Lesley Cohen

     
  2. Electrickery

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the dawn of the age of electricity, from lightning conductors to leaping soldiers and Franklin to Frankenstein.

    4 November 2004

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    Featuring: Simon Schaffer, Patricia Fara, Iwan Morus