Livingstone Project on BBC Radio 4
The Livingstone Project was the subject of a short documentary on April 18 n Radio 4's "Click On" programme.
For 140 years rare manuscripts that record the private thoughts and opinions of David Livingstone, the Victorian explorer and missionary, were hidden from the public eye due to their fragile condition and frequently indecipherable text. In July last year, a trans-Atlantic academic and scientific team, comprising researchers from Birkbeck, University of London and US spectral imaging scientists, launched a major project with the publication of Livingstone's Letter from Bambarre – a spectrally-imaged 'lost' letter from Livingstone's final African expedition, written to his friend and future biographer Horace Waller.
The project, known as the Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, is a venture between two Victorian literature scholars from Birkbeck, Adrian S. Wisnicki (Project Director) and Debbie Harrison, and an imaging team led by program manager Mike Toth and including imaging scientists Keith Knox, Roger L. Easton, Jr., and William Christens-Barry as well as camera engineer Ken Boydston and data manager Doug Emery.
The Livingstone Project will be the subject of a short documentary next Monday (April 18) on Radio 4's "Click On" programme.