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BBC Radio 4Thu 30 Apr 2009 11:30 BBC Radio 4
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BBC Radio 4Sun 5 Jun 2011 13:30 BBC Radio 4 FM only
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Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from West Byfleet, Surrey.
Sun 5 Jun 2011 13:30 BBC Radio 4 FM only
The natural history film is a hundred years old. Percy Smith was its greatest pioneer, making dozens of short but brilliant films on subjects like flies and slime mould. In his principal studio, the back garden of his home in north London, he developed innovative microscope- and time-lapse photography in the 1920s that still makes viewers gasp and filmmakers jealous.
Talking to historians and to Sir David Attenborough and eavesdropping on flickering reels of film, Tim Boon of the Science Museum tells how the balancing bluebottle came to be.
Producer: Tim Dee.
BBC Radio 4Thu 30 Apr 2009 11:30 BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4Sun 5 Jun 2011 13:30 BBC Radio 4 FM only
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