The Russian biologist Nikolai Vavilov followed a dream: building up a world seed bank for crops to feed the planet. His team looked after the massive seed bank in Leningrad, through the German siege of the city and famine and bitter cold - as Prof. Lee Alan Dugatkin of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, describes.
Underwater hydrophones at the Fall of Warness. The wind driving the turbines on Hammars Hill. Building a tidal machine at Leask Marine’s workshop. An electric car and a home air to water heating system. Brian Cromarty has used field recordings to compose four pieces of music inspired by Orkney’s energy story.
Sir William Herschel, who died 200 years ago, discovered infrared radiation and the planet Uranus, built his own reflecting telescopes - and composed symphonies, concertos, sonatas, church music. Astronomer Dr Anne-Marie Weijmans tells his story. Elizabeth Sullivan, Valerie Webster and George McPhee play his music.
