PICK OF TODAY’S RADIO

BAD BLOOD: THE STORY OF EUGENICS, 4.30PM, RADIO 4

FRANCIS GALTON was a Victorian gentleman scientist and explorer. His work in many areas of study, including meteorology and fingerprint identification, has been of great and lasting benefit, but his ideas on human genetics contributed to the slaughter of millions. Adam Rutherford begins a six-part series on Galton’s concept of Eugenics, which held that disease, crime and poverty could be bred out of the human race. What, Adam asks, did Galton intend for those he considered ‘unfit to breed’?