The BBC World Service interviewed Dr. Christin Hoene on the life and work of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose for their programme The Forum.
The episode on “Radio waves and plants: the life of JC Bose” was broadcast on Thursday, 30 June 2022, at 11.06 am local time.
Click here to listen to the programme.
Other panellists include Bose’s biographer Subrata Dasgupta from Lafayette in the United States, where he is Emeritus Professor at the University of Louisiana; author, filmmaker and historian of science Jahnavi Phalkey, who is the Founding Director of Science Gallery in Bangalore, India; and James Poskett, who is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and author of Horizons: A Global History of Science.
Excerpt from the programme notes:
“Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a polymath: a physicist, biologist and early writer of science fiction. He pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics. He made significant contributions to plant science, designing ingenious devices to measure plant growth and responsiveness. He founded one of India’s oldest and most distinguished research institutes. During his life he was honoured at home and in Britain he was knighted for his achievements and made a Fellow of the Royal Society. So why, outside India and his native Bangladesh, is J C Bose not better known?”
