Wednesday, April 30, 2014

BBC New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon on Literature and Science

Dr Sarah Dillon of the University of Cambridge discusses the two very different approaches to understanding the modern world offered by literature and science, and argues that in order to survive as a species and keep our humanity, we need both.

This is one of a series of films made as part of New Generation Thinkers: each year producers from BBC Radio 3 and BBC Arts, together with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, select a group of young academics who have the potential to turn their ground breaking ideas into sensational broadcasting.

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