Aug 182014
The Chemistry Between Them, a new play by Adam Ganz will be first broadcast on Radio 4 on Wednesday 20th August at 14:15. The play examines the life-long friendship between Nobel Prize winning crystallographer Professor Dorothy Hodgkin and her former student (and Chem. Cryst. alumna) Margaret Thatcher. Despite their extremely different political viewpoints, the pair corresponded regularly. The events in the play are set during a visit by Dorothy to Chequers in 1983 during which she is pushing the case for nuclear disarmament.
Guardian Article: Margaret Thatcher’s Surprising Relationship with Dorothy Hodgkin
Radio 4 website: The Chemistry Between Them
Thatcher, c. 1938 (CC-BY4.0)
Hodgkin