Esteemed presenter Melvyn Bragg is your host for Reel History of Britain. Melvyn was born in 1939 in Wigton, Cumbria. He won a scholarship to Oxford to read history, and in 1961 he gained a ...

Prof Val Gibson tells Melvyn Bragg about the device used in the discovery of the neutron. When later interviewed for the New York Times, Chadwick said, "I am afraid neutrons will not be of any use ...