Tej Lalvani on Richard Feynman
Great Lives
BBC
4.2 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Richard Feynman was a physicist who helped design the atomic bomb and won the Nobel Prize.
He is the great life choice of businessman Tej Lalvani CEO of his family business Vitabiotics and the newest Dragon on the BBC show Dragon's Den.
Feynman was also regarded as something of an eccentric and a free spirit who had a passion for playing the bongos.
Helping to make the case for this great life Tej is joined by the expert witness David Berman, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary University of London.
Presenter: Matthew Parris
Producer: Perminder Khatkar
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service. |
| 0:04.7 | Join me as I serve up personal conversations with my sensational guests. |
| 0:08.8 | Do a leap interviews, Tim Cook. |
| 0:11.2 | Technology doesn't want to be good or bad. |
| 0:15.0 | It's in the hands of the creator. |
| 0:16.7 | It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room. |
| 0:20.7 | If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes, |
| 0:24.6 | you're doing the wrong thing. |
| 0:25.9 | Julie, at your service. Listen to all episodes on BBC Sales. |
| 0:31.2 | If I just say these three words, drums, physics and nudity, quite a few of you perhaps, but you'll probably |
| 0:39.8 | be scientists, we'll be able to guess who today's great life is. But for the rest, here's another |
| 0:45.9 | clue if you're still pondering. The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things if you look at |
| 0:52.2 | it right. |
| 0:53.0 | And if you're magnified, you can hardly see anything anymore because everything is jiggling and they're all in patterns and |
| 0:58.0 | there are lots of little balls. |
| 1:00.0 | It's lucky that we have such a large scale view of everything that we can see them as things without having to worry about all these little atoms all the time. |
| 1:09.0 | Today's great life is the physicist Richard Feynman, a scientist who helped design the atomic |
| 1:15.4 | bomb and won the Nobel Prize. But he's also been called a buffoon and often worked on physics |
| 1:22.0 | problems in topless bars because he said they helped him concentrate. |
| 1:27.0 | He is the great life choice of my guest, Tege Lalvani, businessman, CEO of his family business, VITABiotics, and the newest dragon on the BBC |
| 1:38.3 | show Dragon's Den. |
| 1:40.1 | You're a business entrepreneur. So what's the attraction with Richard Feynman |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.