
His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he’s symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even of the age.
But who was Einstein really? Author Samuel Graydon – science editor at the Times Literary Supplement – joins us to provide the answer. From his lost daughter to escaping the Nazis, from love letters to unlikely inventions, from telling jokes to cheer up a sad parrot to refusing the Presidency of Israel, through the discoveries and thought experiments that changed science, his Einstein in Time and Space tells 99 unforgettable stories of the man who redefined how we view our universe and our place within it.