Isaac Newton (1642-1726) was in kinship care with his grandmother for around 9 years after his widowed mother remarried and relocated to another village.

Something of Newton’s childhood is told on this podcast, in which his biographer concludes that young Isaac was devastated by being abandoned by his mother.

The podcast continues with Newton’s career @ Trinity College, Cambridge; the publication of his Principia Mathematica (1687); his extraordinary work across a variety of fields, and his time as an MP for the University of Cambridge.