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Tim Radford

Tim Radford was a journalist and author. He worked at the Guardian for 32 years and had spells as letters editor, arts editor and literary editor before becoming an award winning science

editor and writer. He died in 2025

July 2022James Lovelock obituaryScientist, environmentalist, inventor and exponent of the Gaia theory of the Earth as a self-regulating system27 Jul 2022 17.54 CEST…… commentsNovember

2021Geert Jan van Oldenborgh obituaryDutch physicist who helped to identify the links between human-induced climate change and extreme weather disasters2 Nov 2021 18.27 CET…… commentsJuly

2021WeatherwatchWeatherwatch: In Dickens’ Coketown, sun is harsher than frostIn Hard Times, Charles Dickens writes of boys ‘rowing a crazy boat’, every dip of oar stirring up vile smells17

Jul 2021 07.00 CEST…… commentsMarch 2021WeatherwatchWeatherwatch: dark curtains of rain fall on GK ChestertonThe writer describes a walk in the ‘ghostly and colourless’ countryside around

Oxford23 Mar 2021 07.00 CET…… commentsJanuary 2021WeatherwatchHow Captain Cook described the weather on Antarctica voyageJournal tells of ‘an unusual Snow white brightness’ as explorer’s

ship made its way through icy islands28 Jan 2021 07.00 CET…… commentsSeptember 2020WeatherwatchWeatherwatch: a Victorian naturalist's sunlit musingsIn his 1884 book, The Life of the Fields,

Richard Jefferies wrote of a ‘beautiful and wonderful light’21 Sept 2020 22.30 CEST…… commentsAugust 2020Frank Barnaby obituaryRadiation physicist at Aldermaston who went on to warn of the

dangers posed by the civil and military uses of nuclear energy24 Aug 2020 17.56 CEST…… commentsJuly 2020WeatherwatchWeatherwatch: EF Benson marvels at crimson sunset on drive to LondonAuthor

of Mapp and Lucia novels describes an enchanting summertime trip in A Reaping20 Jul 2020 22.30 CEST…… commentsMarch 2020Freeman Dyson obituaryBrilliant theoretical physicist and

mathematician whose far-fetched ideas for the future verged on the bizarre1 Mar 2020 13.15 CET…… commentsFebruary 2020WeatherwatchWeatherwatch: Scott of the Antarctic's 'most dreadful

hours'In February 1904 the explorer’s ship was stuck on a shoal being battered by heavy seas and a howling gale19 Feb 2020 22.30 CET…… commentsDecember 2019WeatherwatchSouth with Scott:

Christmas Day in AntarcticaAdmiral Lord Mountevans in his memoirs recalls an extreme white Christmas on the expedition in 191111 Dec 2019 22.30 CET…… commentsOctober 2019Norman Myers

obituary31 Oct 2019 18.17 CET…… commentsWeatherwatchWeatherwatch: Lord Byron's reflection of the rain in Genoa30 Oct 2019 22.30 CET…… commentsAugust 2019WeatherwatchWeatherwatch: Lord

Byron's account of a Venetian stormPoet described ‘heavy Squall’ that put his gondola in peril in August 1819 letter21 Aug 2019 22.30 CEST…… commentsJune 2019WeatherwatchIn a squall on Lake

Geneva in 1819, Shelley has no fear of drowningIn a vivid letter to his publisher, Lord Byron describes the courage of the English romantic poet 24 Jun 2019 22.30 CESTApril

2019WeatherwatchWeatherwatch: tales of a 'rimy, damp' fog in Dickensian BritainThe author describes a marsh-mist clinging to twigs like coarse spiders’ webs in Great Expectations29 Apr 2019

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ary 2019WeatherwatchWeatherwatch: a Norfolk parson on the bitter winter of 1795James Woodforde’s diary charts how comfort food brings cheer during the ‘severest’ January23 Jan 2019 22.30

CET…… commentsNovember 2018WeatherwatchWeatherwatch: EF Knight sails into a storm on TrinidadVictorian adventurer documents his battle with cyclones and squalls in search for buried loot28

Nov 2018 22.30 CET…… commentsOctober 2018WeatherwatchWeatherwatch: autumn in Borrowdale, in the words of Coleridge19 Oct 2018 22.30 CEST…… commentsBrief Answers to the Big Questions by

Stephen Hawking review – God, space, AI, Brexit19 Oct 2018 10.00 CEST…… commentsAbout 2,135 results for Tim Radford1234...