Profiles & Interviews

A collection of interviews, profiles and press coverage

2023

On Counterfactual History of Science.” With Samara Greenwood. The HPS Podcast. 29 June.

2023

You’ve Been Lied to About Genetics.”  By Jake Brown.  This brilliant Youtube film features my research on genetics.

2022

The Battle over Mendel with Gregory Radick.” Directed by Maria Pinto.  Part of the Mendel Stories series from the Konrad Lorenz Institute.

2022

Short Q&A on my recent research in the history of genetics. With Daniel Fairbanks. Featured on the Genetics Society website as part of the Mendel 200 celebrations.

2022

What Happened Next: Disputed Inheritance.”  By Carolyn Allen.  Leverhulme Trust Annual Review 2021, pp. 88‒9.

2022

Did Gregor Mendel Fabricate His Data?”  With Mira Lazine.  Discover magazine (online edition).  12 September.  The full Q&A can be read here.

2021

Interview with two members of the Leeds undergraduate HPS Society, Fariha Choudhury and David Chesters, 28 January.

2020

Discovering Darwin: Everyone Has a Tell.” James Wagner, Sarah Bray & Mark Jackson.  In the last 32 minutes there’s a lively discussion of my 2010 paper “Darwin’s Puzzling Expression.

2019

Mendel’s Trick.”  With Phil Sansom.  Naked Scientists Podcast.  14 August.

2019

“Scientific Priestcraft [on Mendelian determinism and W. F. R. Weldon’s critique of it].”  With Angela Saini. Superior: The Return of Race Science (London: Fourth Estate), ch. 3, pp. 72-4.

2019

“What Would Have Happened if Darwin and Mendel Had Been on Twitter?”  With Kat Arney. Genetics Unzipped Podcast. 11 April. (See too her “Fifty Shades of Peas,” 31 January, and the discussion of my research on Weldon in her Herding Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. 210‒11.)

2016

Rewriting the Teaching Course for Genetics.”  With Kerri Smith. Nature Podcast.  17 May.

2016

Ideas & Ghosts.” With Lorraine Daston. Discussion about “The Unmaking of a Modern Synthesis: Noam Chomsky, Charles Hockett, and the Politics of Behaviorism, 1955-1965.” Isis 107: 49-73, reproduced on the Isis Facebook Page. 20 May.

2016

“Mendel in the Hot Seat, 1902.” With Karen Zusi. The Scientist. 1 Feb.

2015

“¿Fue Mendel el padre de la mala praxis científica?” With Javier Sampedro. El Pais. 12 October.

2011

“The Simian Tongue.” With Matthew Treherne, LHRI Director. University of Leeds. 31 January.

2009

On the trail of Darwin in Ilkley.” With BBC News. 26 October.

2009

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Darwin: Past, present and future.Leeds University Reporter 546: 14 December 2009.

2009

“Taking the Waters.” With Yvette Huddleston and Walter Swan. Yorkshire Post 24 October 2009.

2008

“Greg Radick, FAQs [on the publication of The Simian Tongue]” Leeds University Reporter 533: 28 April 2008

Greg Radick, FAQs [on the publication of The Simian Tongue]Leeds University Reporter 533: 28 April 2008

2009

Evolution on the Banks.” With Lori Varga. Rutgers University Alumni Association.