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Wells and the BombOn Wednesday, presenter Samira Ahmed began recording the forthcoming radio programme Mr Wells and the H-bomb, to be broadcast on Radio 3 in the summer.
Graham, Samira Ahmed and Michael Sherborne
In this week’s Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4, chaired by Tom Sutcliffe, Graham joined sociologist Tiffany Jenkins and critic Michael Arditti as guest reviewers. They discussed Xavier Dolan’s new movie Mommy, the Park Theatre’s production of Frozen, Channel 4’s docudrama Coalition, Sara Taylor’s novel The Shore and the Richard Diebenkorn exhibition at the Royal Academy.
Tom Sutcliffe, presenter BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review
At last weekend’s Aldeburgh Literary Festival, Graham talked onstage about his biography of Paul Dirac with journalist Robert Butler.
Last night at the Royal Institution in London’s Piccadilly, Frank Close talked about his new book Half Life – the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, with Graham as MC.
Frank Close at the Royal Institution
Last Thursday evening, the remodelled Dirac Science Library at Florida State University was formally opened, with Graham as guest speaker at the ceremony. The Library, first opened in 1989 by Dirac’s wife Manci, now has 250 additional seats and a host of new facilities, including large wireless displays for collaborative work, a high-quality recording studio, nineteen study rooms and a spacious new Starbucks.
Graham with Julia Zimmerman, Dean of University Libraries at FSU (right) and Katie McCormick, Associate Dean for Special Collections and Archives (left)
The spy Klaus Fuchs is features strongly in Alexander Larman’s review of Graham’s latest book in this week’s Observer feature ‘Paperback of the week’.
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Sir Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies, Kings College London, has selected Graham’s latest book as one of the best three books on military, scientific and technological themes in 2014.
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Dirac’s younger daughter Monica visited Caltech as the guest of the physics department, sixty nine years after her father paid his momentous visit to the institution.
Monica Dirac with Graham at Caltech’s Athenaeum
The first one-day conference in series organised by the St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics, Wittgenstein and Physics, took place in Oxford yesterday. Organised by Jo Ashbourn, it was a hugely successful event, highlighting many of Wittgenstein’s important contributions to thinking about the nature of physics.
Left to right: Harvey Brown (philosopher of physics, Oxford University), Rupert Read (philosopher, East Anglia University), Graham, Chon Tejedor (philosopher, Hertfordshire University), Richard Staley (philosopher and historian, Cambridge University), Jo Ashbourn (physicist, Oxford University)
Steven Weinberg – theorist’s theoristSteven Weinberg has been one of the most luminous stars of theoretical physics for fifty years. For over half that time, he has been based at the University of Texas at Austin, where Graham talked with him at length this week about the relationship between pure mathematics and fundamental physics, the subject of Graham’s next book.
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