century to our understanding of cosmology. " meanwhile, the conservative mp and minister for science, sam gyimahed in leeds during the first world war, but the maker never returned home to finish it. the bbc‘s john maguire explains how 100 years on, the fiddle is finally making music again. when sam sweeney, a folk musician, picked up and played this violin, it was love at first sound. out of all of them, i singled out this fiddle and fell in love with it. there was something about the tone that ijust adored. sam spotted the fiddle in roger claridge's shop. the pieces had sat in a bag in roger's workshop for years, until he was persuaded by his wife to assemble them, breathing new life into the old. inside, sam was intrigued by a label that read "richard howard, 1915" and the words "made in the great war". sam's father found the violin's creator through war records. more than a century ago, richard howard had headed off to war, but was killed at the battle of messene. at home, he left a wife, a daughter and the beginnings of a violin. he'd made five instruments, this is number six. he'd made fiv