Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, The Backroom Boys tells the bittersweet story of modern British engineers and inventors. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone business, saved the human genome for the human race - and who sent the Beagle 2 probe to burrow in the cinnamon sands of Mars.
Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotte...
'Unapologetic' is a brief, witty, personal, sharp-tongued defence of Christian belief, taking on Dawkins' 'The God Delusion' and Christopher Hitchens' 'God is Not Great'. But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true - because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)?
'Unapologetic' is a brief, witty, personal, sharp-tongued defence of Christian belief, taking on Dawkins' 'The God Delusion' and Christopher Hitchens'...
