Professor Jenny Clack, an Old Girl of Bolton School, is to appear on BBC4's Beautiful Minds programme on Wednesday 11 April at 9pm. Jenny is a professor at Cambridge University a pioneering palaeontologist who made evolutionary history by discovering how we on earth went from water to land dwellers. 

The programme is the first in a series of three programmes where three influential scientists explain how their thoughts and discoveries have revolutionised the way the world is perceived and understood, beginning with world-renowned palaeontologist Jenny. She discusses how she had to overcome a series of setbacks before discovering a 365 million-year-old fossil that offered new evidence of how fish made the transition onto land in the form of amphibians. Jenny also explains how she came from a family where nobody had been to university and reveals why she believes she has recently found the bones of the earliest truly land-living tetrapod.