Scientists select and discuss predecessors who inspired their work and lives.
Radio 4 Extra,·10 episodes
Mark Spencer explains why Sir Hans Sloane is his Natural History Hero.
Richard Sabin explains why comparative anatomist Edward Tyson is his Natural History Hero.
Palaeontologist Tori Herridge explains why Dorothea Bate is her Natural History Hero.
Robert Prys Jones explains why Allan Octavian Hume is his Natural History Hero.
Sandy Knapp explains why Alice Eastwood is her Natural History Hero.
Paul Barrett's Natural History Hero is paleontologist Franz Baron Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvás
Beulah Garner explains why entomologist Evelyn Cheesman is her Natural History Hero.
Erica McAllister explains why entomologist George Verrall is her Natural History Hero.
George Beccaloni chooses naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace as his Natural History Hero.
Andrew Parker's Natural History Hero is microscope pioneer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek