BBC Radio broadcast: The Age of Alchemy

[Paul Ferguson]

Science historian Kit Chapman introduces The Age of Alchemy, tracing the long, global evolution of chemistry before it became a modern science. Travelling from ancient Sri Lankan steel forges to Egyptian alchemical texts and Chinese herbal laboratories, he reveals how early experimenters, merging mysticism, medicine and metallurgy, laid crucial foundations for scientific method and discovery.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vm4l

[Paul Ferguson]

Live Science spoke with [Kit] Chapman about The Age of Alchemy, which has been shortlisted for the 2026 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize.

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