Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Published: March 10, 2011, 9 a.m.

b'Our guest on this podcast is Hugh Aldersey-Williams, whose Periodic Tales explores the cultural history of the elements and puts the fun back into chemistry. In the interview he talks about our often bizarre relationship with elements such as radium, which in the early twentieth century experienced a great surge in popularity and led to miracle claims being made for all sorts of household products - even shoe polish.'