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Reverend Richard Coles explores the science of sacred sounds.
17 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Midge Ure explains how technical innovation has always stimulated musical creativity.
15 Feb 2014,·30 mins
Ricky Ross discovers how one Scottish company is giving back the freedom of speech.
09 Aug 2011,·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
Ever Changing Labels
How a diagnosis of depression could be broken down into lots of different conditions
26 Jul 2019,·28 mins
How extreme weather affects people in marginal areas
20 Jan 2000,·28 mins
An Education Revolution?
Sarah Montague and guests debate whether the UK should follow America's lead.
10 Mar 2014,·58 mins
Why are scientists and designers are deliberately planning for failure?
14 May 2009,·30 mins
The secret life of salmon
Shrinking salmon, insta cows and mushroom wars.
02 Jul 2023,·57 mins
What we can learn about the psychology of crowding from one man, and two thousand mice?
07 Jan 2026,·28 mins
Dr Mark Lythgoe investigates the technology of brain scanning.
17 Oct 2007,·30 mins
Ian Peacock discovers why certain smells can transport us back to our childhood.
16 Apr 2009,·30 mins
Timing Systems in Sport
Sporting events are timed to hundredths of a second
11 Sep 2000,·13 mins
Richard Coles on the inspiration to artists of darkness and the Northern lights in Norway.
19 Dec 2011,·30 mins
Adam Fowler visits Northern Canada to discover some potential benefits of global warming.
01 Jan 2008,·30 mins
How surfing is shaping Ireland's coastal communities, north and south of the border.
07 Jul 2014,·30 mins
Episode 2
Hugh Levinson asks what sort of research Africa's scientists should conduct.
07 Apr 2008,·30 mins
Podcasters Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann trace the origins of on-demand radio.
11 Apr 2014,·28 mins
Sarah Moore meets bird rescuer Jean Hains, who helps young Manx Shearwaters.
31 Jul 2007,·30 mins
The Pyramids
Exploring the construction of the Pyramids at Giza in Egypt
17 May 1998,·13 mins
During the 1970s, CERN overtook rival institutions in Russia and the US.
09 Sep 2008,·30 mins
Dr Lucie Green reports on plans for a radio telescope the size of a continent.
31 Mar 2011,·30 mins
Astronomer Paul Murdin asks if Jupiter's moon, Europa, might sustain biological life.
04 Feb 2010,·30 mins
Will artificial intelligence lead to a more unequal world?
02 Apr 2019,·37 mins
Scientist and broadcaster Prof Trevor Cox explores a new wave of biomimicry.
27 Jul 2009,·30 mins
Dr Kat Arney meets a new generation of virtual cartographers, making maps to save lives.
27 Jan 2014,·30 mins
Tucker the sniffer dog takes a boat trip to save the whales.
19 Oct 2010,·30 mins
The Human Body
What's the speed limit of the human body? Gareth Mitchell investigates.
23 Jun 2008,·30 mins
Charlotte Smith asks, when do you choose to stop trying with IVF?
29 May 2015,·28 mins
HIV/AIDS The Facts
A series of programmes about the spread, symptoms and treatment of HIV/AIDS
31 Dec 2003,·50 mins
