Hi everyone, Nick here.

Earlier this week on the main show, you may have heard a short version of a chat

that nature reporter Lizzie Gibney had with British actor Rosman Pike,

about her taking on a role of Marie's Gladovska Curie.

For this podcast lecture, we've got an extended version of that chat.

Here's Lizzie.

So it has been a little while since we last met. I think it was about two years ago, maybe.

Yes, it was 2017. There we are. And so obviously I'm normally a reporter, but I was then, well, we met to discuss chemistry and physics and what science was like in the early 20th century. So thank you so much for talking to me again.

Yeah, you're welcome in a different context, yeah.

So first of all, tell me a little about the film.

So our film Radioactive is about to be released in the UK.

We're doing a sneak preview on International Women's Day,

which is tomorrow as we're having this conversation.

And it's called Radioactive. And it's called radioactive.

So it's a biography to a degree about Madame Curie,

but it's also a biography of radioactivity as a phenomenon.

So it's not a conventional film, as befits an unconventional woman.

And we kind of chart the fallout of this discovery made by Marie and Pierre Curie.

And obviously, Henri Beccarell was involved as well.

So it's a love story, a love story to science and a love story between Marie and Pierre.

And how much did you know about Marie before you took on the role?

It's very hard to untangle what one knew then and what obviously one knows now, but I think I knew almost nothing.

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