(The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World)

Content: Over 80 years after her death, Marie Curie remains by far the best-known female scientist. In her lifetime, she became that rare thing - a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip. This multi-layered film reveals the real Marie Curie, an extraordinary woman who fell in love three times, had to survive the pain of loss, and the public humiliation of a doomed love affair. It is a riveting portrait of a tenacious mother and scientist, who opened the door on a whole new realm of physics, which she discovered and named - radioactivity.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Genres:

Documentary,

History

Runtime:

60 minutes

Year:

2013

Directors:

Gideon Bradshaw

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Production companies:

BBC

Actors:

Himself - Narrator (voice)

Marie Curie's letters read by

Herself (archive footage)

Herself - Author: 'The Madam Curie Complex'

Herself - Clare College, Cambridge

Crews:

Producer

Director