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Life Story: A Horizon Special
It's 1951. There's a race on, and two of the brightest and brashest young men in Cambridge are determined to win it. The prize is glittering. Eternal fame, glory and almost certainly a Nobel prize await whoever is first past the post - for the goal is nothing less than the secret of life itself. \n\nSo begins the extraordinary story of the race to the double helix of DNA, one of the greatest true detective stories of the 20th century.\nWatson and Crick have the bright ideas and the will to win. But there's one little problem: Rosalind Franklin has the crucial data... and she plays the game by very different rules.
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