Robyn Williams Am is one of Australia's best-known and best-loved broadcasters who has presented science programs on ABC radio and television since 1972. Early in his career he made guest appearances in The Goodies, Monty Python's Flying Circus and Dr Who. The author of 16 books, he is the first journalist to be elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He was a visiting fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, and is a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales and the University of Queensland.
An unblinking and highly readable biography by the greatest science broadcaster of our times.' - Tim Flannery