Simon Winchester
British journalist and author Simon Winchester has a knack for finding extraordinary people to write about.
Broadcast date: Thursday 14th May 2009
Simon Winchester became famous for his book The Surgeon of Crowthorne, the story of an eccentric genius who contributed to the first Oxford English Dictionary from a lunatic asylum.
The subject of Simon's latest book is another eccentric genius: British biochemist Joseph Needham, whose love of China led to his masterpiece called Science and Civilisation in China - all 24 volumes of it.
Simon's own book about Needham is called Bomb, Book and Compass.
**original broadcast September 2008**
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