Another Point of View

A collection of Lisa Jardine's extravagantly applauded and perennially popular Radio Four talks.

She creates a rich tapestry, weaving art and science, past and present. And she always seems to connect to something close to home.

Lisa Jardine CBE is Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge. Lisa writes and reviews for all the major UK national newspapers and magazines and for the Washington Post, and has presented and appears regularly on arts, history and current affairs programmes for TV and radio. She judged the 1996 Whitbread Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award, the 2000 Orwell Prize and was Chair of Judges for the 1997 Orange Prize and the 2002 Man Booker Prize.

'I want to use the moment as a springboard for some big ideas. I want to use the past and present to stimulate and challenge the listener and seduce them into thinking differently.' Lisa Jardine 
 
Provocative and inspirational, Lisa Jardine is one of our pre-eminent thinkers. A leading academic, she is a polymath who embraces both the arts and the sciences with equal passion and has that rare gift of being able to make her subject and her thinking accessible to a mainstream audience. 
 
Lisa presents 'A Point of View' on Radio 4 on Sunday mornings, replacing Alistair Cooke's 'Letter From America'. Another Point of View is a collection of twenty-two of the hugely popular and critically-acclaimed talks from the programme, on subjects as wide-ranging and topical as commuting, national identity, Christmas, Latin, knife crime, the mortgage crisis and the credit crunch. 
 
The book contains drawings by Nick Wadley.

Lisa Jardine

A BBC Radio 4 History of Science in Britain

In Britain, we're sometimes inclined to think of science as happening far away from us - in labs or universities or even in the past - and having little impact on our lives. In this groundbreaking series, Lisa Jardine weaves science back into the everyday by showing how the concerns of scientists have always been the concerns of us all. Starting in Restoration England, we travel through seven ages to examine Britain's unparalleled contribution to science. 
 
First, the age of ingenuity, when mechanically-minded citizens pioneered a new way of thinking. 
Then, the age of exploration when young bright men sailed the seas in search of specimens and exotic lands. 
We travel through the age of opportunity when the industrial revolution made science, like industry, into a factory-based, mass-manufactured pursuit. 
Next into the age of inspiration when scientists like Maxwell, Einstein, Darwin, and Anning took great leaps of faith. 
Onward into the age of the lab when scientists professionalised and started to be separated from society in general. 
Into the age of war when military needs placed new demands on science. 
Finally into the age of now where we find science is driven sometimes by curiosity, but also by politics, PR and profit. 
 
From the 1600s to the present day, Seven Ages of Science offers a fascinating insight into the history of science in Britain.

Lisa Jardine

Books by Lisa Jardine

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