I've (nearly) read the Music of the Primes. I found it a bit too biographically detailed in places. I'd have preferred a briefer summary of the development of the thinking. Aitch
oh i got that...the chapter on Ramunujan is quite bizarre - its really neat how the uni of madras rejected him, but yet Hardy saw his potential and took him to Cambridge, lol...i'll never understand that
Simon Singh has done 2 series of programmes for BBC Radio 4: Five Numbers and Another Five Numbers. 15 minutes each programme - short and thought-provoking. You can still hear them on the BBC Listen Again pages:
Only listened to the first 2 (zero and pi) they are quite good in places albeit a little over symplified even for someone who is yet to study maths properly.