Stephen R Thorne

Stephen Thorne

Stephen Thorne is a British actor of radio, film, stage and television. He trained at RADA and after a time in rep he played several seasons with the Old Vic...

Oncolytic Viruses: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 797)

Since the first report of an engineered oncolytic virus, there has been a continuing and steady increase of interest in the field, and while bench research remains vital for the translation of research in this field, its success depends on breakthroughs in clinical studies. Oncolytic Viruses: Method...

Thomas Alva Edison: The Scientists and Inventors Series (Dramatized)

Edison was a prolific inventor. Among his hundreds of patents is the gramophone, the electric light bulb, the telephone, the kinematograph, and the electricity generator. Of all the people who have shaped our modern world it is Edison who had more impact than anyone else. In his 84 years of life, Ed...

Men-of-War: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey

At the time of his death, Patrick O'Brian was halfway through a novel that continued the famous and much-loved Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin series. The chapters left off with a moment of almost perfect felicity: Jack has seen his illegitimate son ably discharging important duties, Sophie and his ...

Guglielmo Marconi: The Scientists and Inventors Series (Dramatized)

Marconi didn't invent radio waves, that credit goes to Heinrich Hertz, for whom the units hertz and megahertz are named. Hertz had discovered and first produced radio waves in 1888. But it was Marconi who took the Hertz discovery and developed what the world now knows as radio. In 1894 Marconi began...

England and Other Stories

These 25 new stories mark Graham Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed novels and confirm him as a master storyteller. They unite into a richly peopled vision of a country that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions. Meet Dr Shah, who has never been to I...

True Mystery Stories