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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
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“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
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