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2. The Mentors and the Legacy
We explore the role of the adults who dedicate time to youth environmental initiatives.
10 Aug 2026,·29 mins
How science got here, and where next
As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy have a future?
30 Oct 2025,·31 mins
8. Changing Planet
The Planet Earth team discuss what the future holds for our changing planet.
10 Dec 2023,·14 mins
Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Woodcock
Hannah Stitfall and Dom Davies review ‘Woodcock’ from the Living World archive.
22 Mar 2020,·22 mins
Series 9
The Fen Raft Spider
Chris Watson joins arachnologist Helen Smith in a quest to record the fen raft spider.
13 Jul 2016,·28 mins
5: The Future
The final part of a thought-provoking book questioning overdiagnosis in medicine.
21 Mar 2025,·14 mins
How Music Can Hold and Heal Us
We explore how music—especially lullabies—heals like medicine.
13 Mar 2025,·25 mins
22/10/2026
David Delday and Alice Tait bring the latest news about farming and rural life.
22 Oct 2026,·60 mins
Episode 5: The Flickering
Five original essays on how the mysterious is woven into the ordinary and the everyday.
18 Jul 2025,·14 mins
Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred Approach
While Freud relied on expert and patient, Rogers pioneered a therapeutic model of equals.
03 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Fitness in Old Age
First broadcast in 2000. How to stay fit in old age
16 Oct 2000,·13 mins
The Hunting of The Quark
First broadcast in 1997. Inside protons and neutrons lurks the holy grail of physics
10 Dec 1997,·13 mins
Space Flight
Reusable rockets, a space station beyond the moon - what is the future of space flight?
13 Jul 2019,·49 mins
Life after Life
First broadcast in 1999. Do you believe in life after death?
15 Jun 1999,·12 mins
Goshawk
Quest to find the most elusive and charismatic creatures concludes in the West Midlands
20 Jul 2001,·15 mins
Plants and the Mystery of Consciousness
Are plants intelligent? Could they help us unravel the mystery of consciousness?
08 May 2026,·14 mins
Update from the Digital Human Team
The Digital Human is pausing to focus on what everyone's talking about - AI
19 Feb 2024,·1 min
Why Life In The Arctic Is Warming Up
First broadcast in 2003. How global warming is affecting the inhabitants of the Arctic
01 Oct 2003,·23 mins
Depression in Later Life
Exploring the grey area between dementia and depression
26 Apr 2002,·27 mins
5. The Anthropocene
Could human engineering stabilise the Earth's climate and chemistry in the long term?
30 Oct 2021,·23 mins
Aberystwyth Promenade
Relax to the sounds of Aberystwyth Promenade. Recorded on a crisp day in November, 2023
18 Dec 2023,·25 mins
Nicolas Bourbaki
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
25 Jun 2010,·15 mins
Episode 5
Dorothy becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964.
10 Oct 2014,·15 mins
Memory
Examination into the condition of Alzheimer's disease
15 May 2000,·24 mins
Being right
Why getting it right might mean admitting you're wrong.
03 Feb 2022,·28 mins
Aye-Aye
One of the weirdest –looking creatures on earth has both mesmerised and terrified us.
29 Nov 2019,·28 mins
2023
Second Course
Sheila Dillon presents more stories from the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2023.
05 Nov 2023,·28 mins
Human Cultural Evolution Versus Genetic Evolution
The effect of globalisation and a greater choice of partners on human genetic evolution.
23 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Talc Tales: 5. Talc on trial
When we send off make-up for testing, the lab finds an asbestos fibre.
10 May 2024,·14 mins
