FACTUAL
Rum Goings On
Tuesday 21 November 2006 11:00-11:30 (Radio 4 FM)
Julian Pettifer recalls a scientific fraud from the 1940s which threatened to rock the British botanical establishment. Professor J W Heslop Harrison claimed to have found some extraordinary plants on the Island of Rum in the Hebrides.
A recent study has revisited his work and given a new twist to an old tale.
