The Ideas List
Claudia Hammond revisits a list of ideas she prepared for a 成人快手 job interview 30 years ago.
Thirty years ago, in March 1995, a fresh-faced Claudia Hammond arrived at the 成人快手 for a job interview as a trainee science producer. To prepare, she put together a comprehensive list of science and health stories, ready to pitch at the interview.
Fast forward to the present day and Claudia, now an award-winning broadcaster and presenter of Radio 4's All in the Mind, is sorting through the drawer of paper she keeps to recycle in her printer and she discovers the list of stories she'd prepared to pitch at that interview three decades earlier.
In this quirky, personal journey, Claudia revisits five ideas from her Ideas List to find out what happened next. From bold experiments in digital cash to breeding robots according to Darwinian principles, she tracks each headline-grabbing story forward through the false-starts and dead ends, the surprises and successes. And she asks what each tale teaches us about the tortuous path of scientific progress.