November
2012 - The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize
This month’s episode celebrates the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize. We
hear from the children and adults who took part in the judging
process, the shortlisted authors and the winner,
Robert Winston.
(00:39) Mark Champkins, Inventor in Residence at the
Science Museum and one of the judges, with Alex Frith, author of shortlisted
‘See inside Inventions’
(02:13) Young judges at Northlands School
(05:23)
Robert Winston, winning author of ‘Science Experiments’
(06:08) Clive
Gifford, author of shortlisted ‘Out of this world: all the cool bits about
space’
(07:20) Richard Platt, author of shortlisted ‘Plagues, pox and
pestilence’
(09:03) Christiane Dorion, author of shortlisted ‘How the weather
works’
(10:23) Richard Dawkins, author of shortlisted ‘The magic of
reality’