Light
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Optics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of optics – from star gazing with a telescope to examining lice under a microscope
1 March 2007
Featuring: Simon Schaffer, Jim Bennett, Emily Winterburn
The Speed of Light
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speed of light, from its first measurement in the 17th Century to Einstein’s groundbreaking ideas on relativity.
30 November 2006
Featuring: John Barrow, Iwan Morus, Jocelyn Bell Burnell