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Recordings

The LMB Archive collates audiovisual recordings relating to the LMB, its science and scientists. This includes externally sourced material and recordings commissioned or made by the LMB.

The collections can be searched in the catalogue below. Due to copyright and format playback, content may be restricted to reference-only viewing or viewing via an alternative format.

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  • Conversations with Max Perutz
    Author/Interviewers Description Series of interviews with Max Perutz about his life and work, conducted throughout 2001. [Made for the British Library with Kathryn Thompson – Incomplete series] Year of Recording 2001
    Details Length 546minutes Publisher/Producer   Format CD
  • Burton, Doreen.
    Author/Interviewers John Finch, Michael Fuller, Kirsty Knott Description Doreen Burton talks about her administrative role at the LMB, and the people she worked with, from when she started in 1968 Year of Recording 2000, October 30
    Details Length 90 minutes Publisher/Producer MRC LMB Format Audio Tape
  • Mick Fordham
    Author/Interviewers Tony Woollard, Richard Henderson, John Finch Description Mick Fordham, Head of the Workshop, talks about his time at LMB, from 1962 to 2000 Year of Recording 2000, November 28
    Details Length 120 minutes Publisher/Producer LMB Format Audio Tape
  • BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs: Max Perutz
    Author/Interviewers Sue Lawley Description Sue Lawley talks to Max Perutz about his life, his work, and his favourite pieces of music Year of Recording 2000, June 25
    Details Length 45 minutes Publisher/Producer BBC Format Audio Tape
  • Blow, David. An Interview with David Blow
    Author/Interviewers John Finch, Richard Henderson Description John Finch and Richard Henderson talk to David Blow about his career at the LMB Year of Recording 2000, July 12 July
    Details Length 230 minutes Publisher/Producer MRC LMB Format Audio Tape
  • Interview with John Sulston
    Author/Interviewers Soraya de Chadarevian Description John Sulston talks about his career path in science, and how it led to his work on the human genome. Year of Recording 20 January 1999
    Details Length 90 minutes (approx) Publisher/Producer MRC LMB Format Audio Tape
  • John D. Smith Interview
    Author/Interviewers John Walker Description John Walker interviews John D. Smith, looking at his development as a molecular biologist, and the growth and development of molecular biology (particularly in Cambridge) in the 1950s onwards. They also discuss Smith's early life and background, and how he came to science. Year of Recording 20 August 1997 (Tape 1), 4 September 1997 (Tape 2)
    Details Length 180 minutes (approx) Publisher/Producer LMB Format Audio Tape
  • Cold War: Hot Science
    Author/Interviewers Georgina Ferry (presenter) Description Segment of a documentary about science during the Cold War, focussing on the 1950s and the work of LMB, Cavendish, and Kings laboratories during this period. Max Perutz talks about his discovery of the structure of haemoglobin; John Kendrew describes the fertile period for biology in the 1950s, helped created by the Cold War; Maurice Wilkins talks about we he became interested in biology, having previously been a physicist; Wilkins talks about the informal influence of his work on that of Francis Crick and James Watson; Kendrew describes the optimism surrounding scientific research during this period, and the freedom scientists were given. Year of Recording 2 February 1996
    Details Length 18 minutes Publisher/Producer BBC Format Audio Tape
  • Hilary Muirhead Interview
    Author/Interviewers John Finch Description John Finch talks to Hilary Muirhead about her career in science, from her early interest in physics to her work at the LMB (alongside Max Perutz, Michael Rossman, David Blow and others), her work in New York and her move to Bristol. Year of Recording 2 April 2001
    Details Length 45 minutes (approx) Publisher/Producer LMB Format Audio Tape
  • Klug, Aaron. Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
    Author/Interviewers Aaron Klug Description A lecture by Aaron Klug for the LMB Graduate Student Association about Rosalind Franklin's role in the discovery of the structure of DNA Year of Recording 1999/05/10
    Details Length 55 minutes Publisher/Producer CUMIS Format VHS (PAL). Digitised by Visual Aids
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