The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World

Over 80 years after her death, Maria Skłodowska-Curie remains by far the best-known female scientist. In her lifetime, she became that rare thing - a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip. This multi-layered film reveals the real Maria Skłodowska-Curie, an extraordinary woman who fell in love three times, had to survive the pain of loss, and the public humiliation of a doomed love affair. It is a riveting portrait of a tenacious mother and scientist, who opened the door on a whole new realm of physics, which she discovered and named - radioactivity.

• Gideon BradshawDirector

• David MaloneHimself - Narrator (voice)
• Geraldine JamesMaria Skłodowska-Curie's letters read by
• Marie CurieHerself (archive footage)
• Julie Des JardinsHerself - Author: 'The Madam Curie Complex'
• Patricia FaraHerself - Clare College, Cambridge
• Malgorzata Sobieszczak-MarciniakHerself - Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum, Warsaw
• Teresa KaczorowskaHerself - Journalist and Author
• Renaud HuynhHimself - Musée Curie, Paris
• Andrea SellaHimself - University College, London
• Hélène Langevin-JoliotHerself - Maria Skłodowska-Curie's Granddaughter
• Helena PyciorHerself - University of Wisconsin
• Jean-Luc PasquierHimself - Radioprotection Expert