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'ECT saved my life' - Sally Marlow on who benefits from electroconvulsive therapy
21 Feb 2023,·28 mins
Martin Wainwright looks at our national night time obsession - with the beauty of moths.
06 May 2011,·28 mins
Zimbabwe
The effects of climate change and the increase of malaria parasite in Zimbabwe
25 Mar 1999,·28 mins
Archers actress Felicity Finch accompanies cave artists as they seek to paint underground
30 Mar 2002,·30 mins
Meet the engineers and scientists at MIT who are shaping our future
10 Sep 2005,·22 mins
The story of a scientific surprise and what happened next.
14 Jan 2026,·28 mins
What do astronauts like Tim Peake think about in space? Answer: home.
03 Mar 2023,·28 mins
Meet the outsiders detecting fraud, malpractice and incompetence in science.
08 May 2023,·28 mins
A year after the Copenhagen climate summit, Roger Harrabin explores what really happened.
28 Nov 2010,·30 mins
Episode 2
Hugh Levinson asks what sort of research Africa's scientists should conduct.
07 Apr 2008,·30 mins
Midge Ure explains how technical innovation has always stimulated musical creativity.
15 Feb 2014,·30 mins
The rate at which scientists and inventors discover new things is slowing. How to fix it?
28 Mar 2022,·28 mins
Meditations on the Metaverse
Olga Koch and Hussein Kesvani get their heads around the future of the internet.
08 Dec 2021,·24 mins
Kat Arney investigates why little girls are addicted to the colour pink, and if it matters
09 May 2011,·30 mins
Adam Hart-Davis follows the construction of the Large Hadron Collider atom smasher at CERN
10 Sep 2008,·45 mins
Episode 1
The ancient country estate of Scadbury lies on the edge of south London.
14 Aug 2007,·30 mins
Why were tens of thousands of people lobotomised in the 1940s and 50s in the UK and US?
07 Nov 2011,·28 mins
Yorkshire Farming - Two Years In Review
In the last Yorkshire Farming programme, Gareth Barlow opens up the archives.
09 Apr 2017,·15 mins
How DNA analysis reveals that chimpanzees are even closer to humans than we thought
24 May 2000,·24 mins
Richard Hollingham examines British plans for a moon mission.
20 Jul 2009,·30 mins
Reverend Richard Coles explores the science of sacred sounds.
17 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Mark Miodownik explores the prospect of a new generation of highly poweful batteries.
09 Apr 2009,·30 mins
Where and when will pollution hit the coast?
Marine experts and meteorologists assess the consequences of the collision.
12 Mar 2025,·4 mins
A fascinating insight into one of Nature's greatest cheats.
05 Apr 2011,·30 mins
The Australian government's deal with an indigenous community to take their nuclear waste.
31 Mar 2009,·30 mins
An exciting and revelatory soundscape following life between the tides on a sandy coast.
05 Nov 2007,·30 mins
The search for an elusive watery wonder in the aftermath of Sri Lanka's civil war.
28 Jul 2014,·30 mins
Astronomer Lucie Green looks at the dangers a solar superstorm could pose to us on Earth.
23 Apr 2013,·28 mins
Five million pieces of Lego are washed overboard. Meet the beachcombers looking for them.
11 Sep 2023,·28 mins
Co-operation or Competition?
The growth and interest in biotechnology in the US, China and India
03 Apr 2005,·22 mins
