Join Daniel Darkens and Nina Bickerton for another episode of The Obscure as they take you through the life and achievements of John Scott Haldane.

Each future episode will pluck another interesting character out of the obscure and take them into the limelight.

JS Haldane's is a story of remarkable achievwement in the area of safety and welfare, from coal miners to mountaineers, from deep sea divers to soldiers in the first world war trenches.

We relied heavily on the excellent biography:

Suffer and Survive by Martin Goodman (published 2007)