He asked Ted Nash to write the hour-long composition "Portrait in Seven Shades."

VOA: special.2010.03.24

"People ask me,' How long did it take you to write that book? ' The answer is,'Sixty-eight years.'" The book consists of 600 essays by Milner - some done in consultation with other experts in the many fields shaped by Darwin's thinking ." .

VOA: standard.2009.11.25