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Sir JOHN SULSTON – Nobel Prize-winning scientist

Sir JOHN SULSTON – Nobel Prize-winning scientist

Sir John Sulston on whether science can help the human species change its ways

The Interview · BBC World Service

April 29, 201223m 22s

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Show Notes

Science is constantly changing and deepening our understanding of ourselves and our planet. So is it time to give scientists a more prominent role in the debate about humanity's strategic choices; economic, political and environmental?

HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Sir John Sulston, a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist who has led a Royal Society study into the global impact of population growth two decades on from the Rio Earth Summit.

Can science help the human species change its ways?