Professor Dame Ann Dowling
Kirsty Young interviews Professor Dame Ann Dowling, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the engineer and international expert on aircraft noise reduction, Professor Dame Ann Dowling.
The first female president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, one of her passions is encouraging more young people, particularly women to choose engineering as a career. In 1998 she became the first female professor of Engineering at Cambridge University and went on to be the first female head of the Department.
As a child she was fascinated with how things worked, taking her bike apart aged six, and even dismantling the electric lights in her dolls house. Later, an over enthusiastic session with her chemistry set caused the conservatory curtains to briefly catch fire.
A passion for aeroplanes led her down the path of aeroacoustics and aircraft noise reduction alongside her hobby of flying airplanes.
She was awarded the DBE for services to science in 2007 and was appointed to the Order of Merit in 2016.
Producer: Sarah Taylor.
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Ann Dowling: 'Children are natural engineers'
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The Beach Boys
Good Vibrations
- The Beach Boys: Greatest Hits.
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Thomas Weelkes
Give ear, O Lord
Performer: The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Conductor: David Skinner.- Grant The King A Long Life: English Anthems & Instrumental Music.
- Obsidian.
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Claude Debussy
Pr茅lude 脿 l聮apr猫s-midi d聮un faune
Performer: Peter Lloyd. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.- Images Pour Orchestre.
- EMI.
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Giacomo Puccini
Un bel di vedremo
Performer: Renata Scotto. Performer: The Chorus and Orchestra of the Rome Opera House.- Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Highlights.
- EMI Classics.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Lacrymosa
Performer: Joan Sutherland. Performer: Marilyn Horne. Performer: Luciano Pavarotti. Performer: Martti Talvela. Performer: Vienna State Opera Choir. Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.- Verdi Requiem.
- Decca.
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Joni Mitchell
Both Sides, Now
- Clouds.
- Reprise.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4, III, Ruhevoll.
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.- Symphony No. 4.
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Billie Holiday
Our Love Is Here To Stay
- Verve Silver Collection.
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BOOK CHOICE
The collected papers of Sir James Lighthill
LUXURY ITEM
An artist's studio
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Kirsty Young |
Interviewed Guest | Ann Dowling |
Producer | Sarah Taylor |
Broadcasts
- Sun 24 Jul 2016 11:15大象传媒 Radio 4 FM
- Fri 29 Jul 2016 09:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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