Eagle
Seventeenth-century coaching inn where DNA's double helix was toasted, with a wartime airmen's ceiling.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Eagle on Bene't Street in Cambridge follows two young scientists from the Cavendish Laboratory around the corner, and one lunchtime in February nineteen fifty-three that became the pub's most famous story. It weighs what James Watson wrote about that day against what Francis Crick later remembered, and turns to Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins and the plaque by the door. Best heard in the middle room, near the table where the pair ate.
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