BBC Great Lives: Carl Sagan

moxiequz · May 19, 2010

The BBC podcast series "Great Lives" focuses this week on the wonderful Carl Sagan:

BBC - Podcasts - Great Lives

You can download the MP3 for free until May 25th:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/greatlives/greatlives_20100518-1630a.mp3

From the description:

Physicist Brian Cox tells Matthew Parris how Carl Sagan's Cosmos tv show changed his life. As a young boy of 13, Brian Cox stared at his television screen every Wednesday evening, as Carl Sagan took him on a journey across the Cosmos. The programme was a ground-breaking piece of television by a brilliant young scientist who could be inspiring and infuriating in equal measure. Sagan was a complex character. Driven to succeed, he came from a relatively poor background to become a millionaire, and one of the most influential scientists of his era. His popularity left him open to both criticism and jealousy amongst his colleagues, and whilst he was passionate about the need to educate the populace, he could also be arrogant and dismissive of his fellow scientists. So just how good a scientist was he, and what is his legacy?
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I haven't listened to it yet but I look forward to doing so. I'm a great fan of Sagan. I've just about finished one of his last books, The Demon Haunted World, and I highly recommend it to ...well, everyone!

Enjoy!

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