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Minisode: An Overdue B/III/iii

Minisode: An Overdue B/III/iii

Released Friday, 25th October 2019
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Minisode: An Overdue B/III/iii

Minisode: An Overdue B/III/iii

Minisode: An Overdue B/III/iii

Minisode: An Overdue B/III/iii

Friday, 25th October 2019
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Produced by: Catherine Charlwood (@DrCharlwood) and Laura Ludtke (@lady_electric)Music composed and performed by Gareth JonesLaura and Catherine are (re)joined by a special guest: Dr Rachel Crossland, Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Chichester. Rachel takes the B/III/iii challenge while discussing how to talk about discoveries in physics past and present; the difficulties of being asked to know what you don’t yet know; and the relationship betwen the popular press and scientific ideas.Episode resources (in order of appearance):

Gillian Beer, Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)

'Problems of Description in the Language of Discovery', which was originally published in George Levine's One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature (Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin University Press, 1987)'Discourses of the Island', in Frederick Amrine, ed., Literature and Science as Modes of Expression (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1989), 1-27.

N. Katherine Hayles, Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990).

Alistair Sponsel, 'Constructing a "revolution in science": the campaign to promote a favourable reception for the 1919 solar eclipse experiments', British Journal for the History of Science, 35/4 (December 2002), 439-67.

Simon Armitage, ‘Finishing It’ - read the poem and about the carving process here

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