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Mukti Jain Campion asks why India's people have virtually no access to medical morphine.
03 Mar 2008,·30 mins
Mark Miodownik challenges the conventional wisdom that more scientists are essential.
31 Mar 2008,·30 mins
Hugh Huddy travels the length and breadth of Wales, discovering the nation through sound.
01 Mar 2018,·28 mins
Amber Marks explores the science of olfactory detection.
19 Jun 2012,·28 mins
Richard Dawkins on a worrying disconnect between scientists and society.
27 Nov 2018,·37 mins
How the Natural History Museum packed its collections off to country houses during WWII.
15 Jan 2014,·30 mins
Naomi Alderman looks a the advantages of thinking algorithmically.
05 Apr 2015,·30 mins
Rowan Pelling searches for a cure for the problem which blights her life, procrastination.
28 Aug 2012,·28 mins
Roland Pease recalls ZETA, a nuclear energy project unveiled in 1958 by British scientists
16 Jan 2008,·30 mins
Angela Saini explores shared space - an idea set to bring peace and harmony to our streets
03 Jan 2012,·30 mins
Sally Marlow turns to science to find out why so many people in Britain are addicted.
24 Sep 2019,·28 mins
Insect Technology
Erica McAlister explores how insect technology can solve human design problems.
19 Mar 2013,·28 mins
X-Rays
The oldest surviving X-ray equipment was made in 1896 by Dr John Reynolds
13 Aug 1998,·13 mins
Federal Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee
Examining the Federal Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee
01 Nov 2007,·22 mins
Dreams in the Earth
Roma Agrawal explores how the built environment shapes us.
14 Oct 2021,·28 mins
Frauke Jensen reports on a research project set up to count Namibia's cheetah population.
20 Mar 2007,·30 mins
The innovation in trauma science that's saving the lives of bleeding trauma patients.
04 Feb 2020,·28 mins
Adam Rutherford talks to the scientists who've left the lab for Hollywood.
30 Aug 2010,·30 mins
Anna Pavord explores the life and legacy of the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus.
09 Apr 2007,·30 mins
Information technology is Not a Luxury
Information technology is an essential tool for the developing world
23 Dec 2002,·27 mins
Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open source' computer software.
01 Jun 2009,·30 mins
Conductor Charles Hazlewood and Dr Brian May of Queen celebrate the Doppler effect.
15 Aug 2017,·30 mins
The most recent knowledge of what the land around Britain was like before the Ice Age.
27 Jan 2009,·30 mins
Brian Cox meets some celebrity physics enthusiasts, including Alan Alda and Eddie Izzard.
10 Sep 2008,·30 mins
Julia Hobsbawm investigates the idea that we are all connected by only six links.
26 Feb 2016,·30 mins
Power and Prejudice
From middle to old age - from power and prejudice to the age of reminiscence
21 May 1998,·26 mins
The Mathematicians
Peter Curran meets the mathematicians of the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematics.
06 Sep 2009,·15 mins
Are close ties to industry distorting priorities of scientific research in universities?
15 Dec 2010,·30 mins
Jerry Brotton navigates the transformation from paper to digital mapping.
30 Jun 2020,·28 mins
Privacy on the Internet
You leave behind a trail of information companies can collect and exploit
19 May 1999,·13 mins
