The Man Who Ate The Heart Of A King

William Buckland: Geologist, theologian, palaeontologist.

What rules the world? The stomach, according to William Buckland. He’s the man who described the first dinosaur from a jaw bone found in Oxfordshire and named it the Megalosaurus. He pioneered the study of cropology (the study of fossil poo) and he’s the man who set about sampling every animal in existence, even the heart of a King. As part of the Oxford Playhouse’s season of Radical Thinking, come Professor Jim Kennedy introduces the man behind the discoveries, the ambition and most importantly the food.