Science Podcast
Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
Episodes to download
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Longitude
Thu 13 May 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of longitude and the race to calculate it at sea.
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Pierre-Simon Laplace
Thu 8 Apr 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.
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The Late Devonian Extinction
Thu 11 Mar 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.
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Emilie du Châtelet
Thu 4 Feb 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
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Eclipses
Thu 31 Dec 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.
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Alan Turing
Thu 15 Oct 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
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Paul Dirac
Thu 5 Mar 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
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The Evolution of Horses
Thu 27 Feb 2020
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
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Solar Wind
Thu 23 Jan 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.
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Hybrids
Thu 31 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how parents from different species can reproduce
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Thu 3 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Kinetic Theory
Thu 23 May 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.
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The Evolution of Teeth
Thu 11 Apr 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.
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Pheromones
Thu 21 Feb 2019
A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.
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Aristotle's Biology
Thu 7 Feb 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.
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Emmy Noether
Thu 24 Jan 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.
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Venus
Thu 27 Dec 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
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Free Radicals
Thu 1 Nov 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the molecules linked to cell functioning and ageing
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Automata
Thu 20 Sep 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
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Echolocation
Thu 21 Jun 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
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The Proton
Thu 26 Apr 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Proton, found in the nuclei of all elements.
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George and Robert Stephenson
Thu 12 Apr 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.
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Rosalind Franklin
Thu 22 Feb 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin.
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Cephalopods
Thu 1 Feb 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the biology of squid, octopus, cuttlefish and nautilus.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Thu 30 Nov 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gauss, one of the great mathematicians.
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Feathered Dinosaurs
Thu 26 Oct 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss which dinosaurs were feathered, and their links to birds.
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Bird Migration
Thu 6 Jul 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration
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Louis Pasteur
Thu 18 May 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louis Pasteur, known as a founder of microbiology.
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