Jim’s Al Kalili on R4 Tuesdays 9am

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Life scientific.

I quite often listen to this in passing. There have been some really interesting women on it so it is really worth listening on catch up.

This week’s caught my ear when she was talking about violent male offenders using a script an now talking about munchausens. Doctors who break the rules......

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002r3j

This week is Gwen Adshead on treating the minds of violent offenders. A couple of weeks ago, they had Susan Black on a career in IT. She came to science late, as a single parent and was very inspiring.

It is amazing how much goes on in science in fields that you never knew existed!

(apologies to Jim - his name is Jim Al-Khalili )
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I have a crush on Jim Al-Khalili.

Me too [swoon]

Lovely voice, sensible questions.

I should probably comment on the substance of your thread but am also busy swooning!

I've been listening to this series, so very interesting.

Re 'Drs who break rules', Drs are people who very rarely break rules and 'Tamper tantrums' are an indicator of possible future physical attacks. Did anyone else think of a certain Dr we know well on these boards.

Again, they provide 'justificatory narratives' to allow their behaviour. Yes, it sounds familiar.

I heard the Susan Black programme, she's amazing! Left husband at 23 with 3 kids due to dv, went on to Uni, now a professor and saved Bletchley Park!.

I love this programme! I am not scientific in any way but it's so interesting to hear about people's stories.

What I especially love is that the women who are featured are featured because of what they have achieved in their field, because of their contribution to science and because of their intellect, hard work, determination. Nothing to do with how they look, what they wear, how well they 'perform' womanhood. They are celebrated for who they are and what they have done, just as the men are.

It's very refreshing listening and should be homework for teenage girls continually fed the lies that as women our worth is in our bodies and our compliance with men.

I really like A Life Scientific too. Sue Black was amazing a couple of weeks ago.

I heard the lovely Jim say on another R4 programme (Feedback maybe) that they have a 50-50 split of men and women guests because it's the right thing to do. And that despite the perception that women are underrepresented in STEM there is no shortage of fantastic women to have on the programme.

Wonderful programme, fabulous series.

I have a long-standing crush on Jim A, he makes the complex explicable to a non-science bod like me. The thinking woman's Brian Cox I say.

Wow Monkey, didn't know about the 50/50 split, how fantastic.