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The Essay Strange Encounters - Series 2 Episodes

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  1. Episode 5

    5/5 Virologist John Oxford looks at the struggle to beat the deadly Spanish Flu.

  2. Episode 4

    4/5 Engineer Basil Mahon on the young genius Heinrich Hertz.

  3. Jennifer Rohn

    3/5 Jennifer Rohn on biologist Peyton Rous, who showed that viruses can cause tumours.

  4. Stuart Clark

    2/5 Astronomer Stuart Clark recalls The Great Solar Storm of 1859.

  5. Matthew Cobb

    1/5 Biologist Matthew Cobb considers the quest for spontaneously-generated life.