{"id":10616,"date":"2018-09-28T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=10616"},"modified":"2018-09-28T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:31:00","slug":"ou-scientists-feature-in-radio-4-life-scientific-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/around-ou\/ou-scientists-feature-in-radio-4-life-scientific-book\/","title":{"rendered":"OU scientists feature in Radio 4 Life Scientific book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Open University scientists, including the late Professor Colin Pillinger, are among a select group to feature in a new book based on the popular BBC Radio 4 series The Life Scientific<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Prof

Hazel Rymer<\/p><\/div>\n

The three OU scientists are: Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Hazel Rymer<\/a> (and Professor of Environmental Volcanology), Professor in Planetary Sciences Monica Grady<\/a>, the late planetary scientist Professor Colin Pillinger.<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition, astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, a former Head of Physics at the OU also features in the book, together with OU Honorary Graduate Professor Brian Cox.<\/p>\n

The book is based on interviews given by the OU scientists and first broadcast on the series. It introduces the guests with in-depth profiles. It is the first book in a series, called The Life Scientific: Explorers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Monica

Monica Grady<\/p><\/div>\n

The Life Scientific has a weekly average of two million listeners. Each book in the series will follow the winning formula of the radio programme, with a unique mix of the personal and the scientific. Each chapter focuses on a leading scientist and what inspires and motivates them, and what their discoveries might mean for mankind.<\/p>\n

Author Anna Buckley is the series producer of\u00a0The Life Scientific\u00a0and has made more than 70 episodes of the programme since its inception.<\/p>\n

With a foreward by programme presenter and OU Honorary Graduate Jim Al-Khalili, the book is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three Open University scientists, including the late Professor Colin Pillinger, are among a select group to feature in a new book based on the popular BBC Radio 4 series The Life Scientific. The three OU scientists are: Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Hazel Rymer (and Professor of Environmental Volcanology), Professor in Planetary Sciences Monica Grady, the late […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1525],"class_list":["post-10616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-ou","tag-news-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}