DNA double helix: how James Watson and Francis Crick cracked the secret of life

The secret of life is written in the double helix structure of DNA.
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Dr Mark Hirst of the Open University and Prof Robert Budd, curator of medicine at London's Science Museum, discuss how Francis Crick and James Watson made their discovery 60 years ago this week: how they took what was already known about DNA, an image from the brilliant x-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, and added two key insights of their own to propose the structure of DNA.

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