FitzRoy Podcast!

Downloading to my iPod as I type…

Royal Society Podcasts: Robert FitzRoy FRS: sailing into the storm (mp3)

John Gribbin is the author of more than a hundred books of popular science, including 'FitzRoy: the remarkable story of Darwin's Captain and the invention of the weather forecast'. In this talk, he discusses FitzRoy's career as captain of HMS Beagle and as a pioneering meteorologist.

Postscript: I have now listened to the podcast. It was very interesting, although the recording quality was pretty poor.

See also: FitzRoy's Bicentenary

Writer and photographer Richard Carter, FCD is the founder of the Friends of Charles Darwin. He lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.Website • Facebook • Twitter • Newsletter • Books

Buy my book: On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderful. Science and history and geography and evolution and culture all tangled up in musings while walking about the moors around Hebden Bridge.”—PZ Myers
Amazon: UK | .COM | etc.

Subscribe to the newsletter:

Subscribe