Book description
'I want to use the moment as a springboard for some big ideas. I
want to use the past and present to stimulate and challenge the
listener and seduce them into thinking differently.' Lisa Jardine
Provocative and inspirational, Lisa Jardine is one of our
pre-eminent thinkers. A leading academic, she is a polymath who
embraces both the arts and the sciences with equal passion and has
that rare gift of being able to make her subject and her thinking
accessible to a mainstream audience.
Lisa presents 'A Point of View' on Radio 4 on Sunday mornings,
replacing Alistair Cooke's 'Letter From America'. Another Point of
View is a collection of twenty-two of the hugely popular and
critically-acclaimed talks from the programme, on subjects as
wide-ranging and topical as commuting, national identity, Christmas,
Latin, knife crime, the mortgage crisis and the credit crunch.
The book contains drawings by Nick Wadley.
Lisa Jardine CBE is Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at
Queen Mary, University of London and Chair of the Human Fertilisation
and Embryology Authority. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical
Society and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Jesus
College, Cambridge. Lisa writes and reviews for all the major UK
national newspapers and magazines and for the
Washington Post
, and has presented and appears regularly on arts, history and current
affairs programmes for TV and radio. She judged the 1996 Whitbread
Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award, the 2000 Orwell Prize and was
Chair of Judges for the 1997 Orange Prize and the 2002 Man Booker Prize.
