Marie Curie on Film

The new film Radioactive charts the life and career of double Nobel Prize-winning physicist/chemist Marie Curie, woven together with the scientific developments and disasters that emerged from her discovery of radioactivity. In this edition of Historical Fiction, Radioactive’s director Marjane Satrapi and Marie Curie’s biographer Diana Preston discuss the film, and the life and achievements of this formidable scientist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In History Hit's Historical Fiction podcast, authors of newly published novels talk about their work, historians and writers discuss how great historical figures are depicted in fiction, and commentators explore contemporary concerns about "fake news" and "post-truth". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.