" Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact". - Thomas Huxley
Mary Roach has written for the Guardian, Vogue, GQ, Salon, Wired and the New York Times Magazine. She is the author of Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, and Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife. Her latest book is Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science.
First broadcast on 27th June 2008.