From the July 2019 Issue When Computers Rule the World Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence By James Lovelock with Bryan Appleyard LR
From the March 2001 Issue It All Began in Africa The Man who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois By Pat Shipman Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed the Course of Evolution By Garniss Curtis, Carl Swisher and Roger Lewin LR
From the February 2019 Issue Of Coal & Calculus Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton – Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel By Benjamin Wardhaugh LR
From the April 2018 Issue Climb Every Mountain The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer, and Public Intellectual By Roland Jackson LR
From the February 2018 Issue Top of the Atomic Pile The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age By David N Schwartz LR
From the February 2017 Issue Life on Mars? Aliens: Science Asks – Is Anyone Out There? By Jim Al-Khalili (ed) All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life By Jon Willis LR
From the April 2016 Issue Half-Life Stories Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation By Timothy J Jorgensen LR
From the February 2016 Issue Tyrannosaurus, Ex Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe By Lisa Randall LR
From the March 2015 Issue Unstable Particle Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy By Frank Close LR
From the March 2011 Issue Stars In Their Eyes Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel By Michael Hoskin LR
From the March 2010 Issue Is There Anybody Out There? The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe? By Paul Davies LR
From the March 2009 Issue Whizz! Bang! Wallop! Science: A Four Thousand Year History By Patricia Fara LR
From the December 2008 Issue The Shakespeare of Physics The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac Quantum Genius By Graham Farmelo LR
From the November 2008 Issue Destination Moon Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth By Robert Poole LR
From the February 2008 Issue Playing With Fire American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer By Kai Bird & Martin J Sherman LR
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'Fiona Shaw, in Jonathan Miller’s production, is the best shrew I have seen. She starts off in a mustard yellow dress with a mustard sharp tongue.'
From the archive, Kate Kellaway on a 1988 production of 'The Taming of the Shrew'.
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'He was not a revolutionary at all of course. He was only marginally a socialist. His tradition was rooted in the Liberal aristocracy, and his politics were entirely bounded by Parliament.'
From the archive, Paul Foot on Tony Benn's diaries.
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