Drawing on original documents and notebooks, this is the story of the time in 1799 when, in a town house on the banks of the River Avon in Bristol, Humphry Davy - later celebrated for his miners lamp - came within a breath of discovering the anaesthetic powers of nitrous oxide. Starring Paul Mundell, Richard McCabe, Eleanor Tremaine, David Collins, Kenneth Cranham, Stephen Noonan and Richard Holmes.
- ISBN10 1471331520
- ISBN13 9781471331527
- Publish Date 1 January 2013
- Publish Status Withdrawn
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
- Imprint BBC Digital Audio
- Edition Unabridged edition
- Format Audiobook (WAV)
- Duration 0 hours and 45 minutes
- Language English