Unstoppable: Hedy Lamarr
Dr Julia Ravey and Dr Ella Hubber both have a love of science, but it turns out there\u2019s a lot they don\u2019t know about some of the leading women at the front of the inventing game. In Unstoppable, Dr Julia and Dr Ella tell each other the hidden, world-shaping stories of the engineers, innovators and inventors they wish they\u2019d known about when they were starting out as scientists. This week, the story of the Hollywood starlet whose brilliant ideas would go on to revolutionise the way we live.
Known as the \u2018most beautiful woman in film\u2019 during the 1940s, Hedy Lamarr was one of the most in demand Hollywood actresses of her time. But she wasn\u2019t just a movie star. From a young age, she also had a knack for inventing \u2013 she liked to take her toys apart just to see how they worked. And she carried this passion into her adult life \u2013 creating an invention that laid the groundwork for technology many of us couldn\u2019t live without: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.
But it didn\u2019t come without struggle. Dr Julia and Dr Ella take us through Hedy\u2019s remarkable journey, and we get a first-hand look into Hedy\u2019s life from her daughter Denise Loder-DeLuca.
Presenters: Dr Ella Hubber and Dr Julia Ravey \nProducers: Ella Hubber and Julia Ravey \nAssistant producer: Sophie Ormiston \nProduction Coordinator: Elisabeth Tuohy\nEditor: Holly Squire
(Photo: Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born American actress and inventor. Credit: Eric Carpenter/John Kobal Foundation/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)