John Crace's satirical Digested read columns have become a Guardian institution, reducing the most newsworthy books of the year to an essential 600 words.
Here, he takes on An Appetite for Wonder, a first volume of autobiography from the biologist Richard Dawkins, which takes him up to the publication of his name-making book The Selfish Gene.
Guardian science writer Ian Sample and Andrew Brown, author of a history of celebrity biologists In the Beginning was the Worm, join us to discuss the importance of Dawkins and his work.
Reading list
An Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins (Bantam)
John Crace's digested Dawkins – as it was written
