Science Podcast
Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
Episodes to download
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Time
Thu 30 Dec 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of mankind’s attempt to understand the nature of time.
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Medical Ethics
Thu 16 Dec 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the technological advances and ethics of modern medicine.
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Consciousness
Thu 25 Nov 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines why ideas about consciousness preoccupy philosophers and scientists.
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Pain
Thu 22 Jul 1999
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and our mechanisms of coping with pain.
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Intelligence
Thu 1 Jul 1999
Melvyn Bragg explores the origins, manifestations and possibilities of intelligence.
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The Great Disruption
Thu 17 Jun 1999
Melvyn Bragg looks at the 20th century shift from industrial to information society.
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Memory and Culture
Thu 27 May 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines how our collective and individual ways of remembering have changed.
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The Universe's Origins
Thu 20 May 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of what we know about the origins of the universe.
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Mathematics
Thu 6 May 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of mathematics in relation to other sciences.
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Artificial Intelligence
Thu 29 Apr 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are near to achieving the thinking, feeling computer.
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Evolution
Thu 15 Apr 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the future of gene therapy and advances in evolutionary biology.
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Animal Experiments and Rights
Thu 18 Mar 1999
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of animals in humankind’s search for knowledge.
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Space in Religion and Science
Thu 18 Feb 1999
Melvyn Bragg looks at how cyberspace has introduced a new concept of space in our world.
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Language and the Mind
Thu 11 Feb 1999
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether the formation of language is innate or cultural.
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Psychoanalysis and its Legacy
Thu 4 Feb 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the relevance of psychoanalysis at the end of the 20th century.
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Ageing
Thu 28 Jan 1999
Melvyn Bragg looks at the ethical, economic and biological implications of living longer.
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Genetic Engineering
Thu 14 Jan 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the implications of the developments in genetic engineering.
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Neuroscience in the 20th century
Christmas Eve 1998
Melvyn Bragg examines the little we know and what we don’t yet know about the brain.
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The Brain and Consciousness
Thu 19 Nov 1998
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our knowledge of memory and the functioning of the brain.
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Science in the 20th century
Thu 5 Nov 1998
Melvyn Bragg examines how perceptions of science have changed in the 20th century.
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Science's Revelations
Thu 29 Oct 1998
Melvyn Bragg examines whether science has ruined our sense of poetic wonder at the world.
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