Professor Jim Al-Khalili
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535 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Jun
Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, it didn't discourage you.
Your passion for the subject clearly ran very deep.
Do you remember what first sparked your interest?
Well, I also mentioned that your particular field of interest is ichthyosaurs.
Tell us a bit more about them.
Were they quite fierce things?
Well, we're going to talk about them a bit later on.
But let's get back to you, Dean.
You were born in 1989 in Doncaster.
Tell me about your family.
I gather they were very supportive of your fascination with fossils.
Well, let's talk about your school days, because I mean, some people are going to find it hard to believe, given what you've achieved.
But academic life didn't come easy, did it?
And that was at about the age of 13 or 14.
Well, despite your dedication to fossils, Dean, you didn't get the GCSEs that you wanted, which meant you couldn't take the science subjects at A-level.
So in the summer of 2008, you travelled to America as an 18-year-old for a four-month dig with the Wyoming Dinosaur Centre.
And when you got to the dig site, right away, on day one, you struck lucky and found something.
And it even got some media interest for you, didn't it?
Well, once you got home from this summer adventure, you started volunteering at a museum in Doncaster.
It is quite remarkable, isn't it?
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