A six-part series on the history of forensic science, narrated by Donald Findlay QC. The series won the Glaxo Wellcome Science Writers radio award in 1998 — and also helped fund John’s MSc in Forensic Medicine degree. Two episodes are available to listen to here.
Test Tube Detectives
Listen — Episode 1
Test Tube Detectives: Blood Crying out for Vengeance
Listen — Episode 2
Test Tube Detectives: The Search for the Criminal Character
The Victorian obsession with identifying criminal ‘types’ — from phrenology and Bertillon’s anthropometry to Francis Galton’s fingerprints. How science was pressed into service to answer the question: can criminality be read in a face?