Lewis Wolpert

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996 by BBC

Oct 6, 199637:08Society & Culture

The castaway on Desert Island Discs this week is Professor Lewis Wolpert. As Chairman of the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science, he is a passionate advocate of the value of science and the increasing need f...

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