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BBC RADIO 4 - In Our Time: Science Podcast - Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science. - Updated: occasionally - Episodes available: indefinitely from https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gyd7j/episodes/downloads?page=10

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Science Podcast

Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.

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Episodes available: indefinitely

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Plankton

Thu 5 Oct 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny lifeforms that sustain so much life on earth.

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Albert Einstein

Thu 14 Sep 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Einstein's astonishing impact on theoretical physics.

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Mitochondria

Thu 1 Jun 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.

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Linnaeus

Thu 20 Apr 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist.

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Paul Erdős

Thu 23 Feb 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.

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Tycho Brahe

Thu 2 Feb 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.

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Superconductivity

Thu 26 Jan 2023

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.

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The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876

Thu 24 Nov 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great global Victorian voyage of scientific discovery.

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The Fish-Tetrapod Transition

Thu 20 Oct 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth.

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The Electron

Thu 29 Sep 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the atomic particle that's proved a gateway to modernity.

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The Death of Stars

Thu 9 Jun 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the ends of stars can lead to new planets and new life

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Homo erectus

Thu 14 Apr 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.

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Seismology

Thu 10 Mar 2022

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the study of earthquakes helps reveal Earth's secrets.

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In Our Time is now first on BBC Sounds

Fri 4 Mar 2022

New episodes will now be available first on Sounds for 28 days before other podcast apps.

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William and Caroline Herschel

Thu 11 Nov 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siblings at the forefront of 18th-century astronomy

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Corals

Thu 28 Oct 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which form the now-threatened reefs.

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The Manhattan Project

Thu 7 Oct 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2

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The Evolution of Crocodiles

Thu 16 Sep 2021

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs.

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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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Fungi

Thu 15 Feb 2018

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss fungi.

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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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Enzymes

Thu 1 Jun 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss enzymes, the catalysts essential for life.

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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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Pauli's Exclusion Principle

Thu 6 Apr 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

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The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Thu 16 Mar 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years.

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The Kuiper Belt

Thu 2 Mar 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the icy Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune, home to Pluto.

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Maths in the Early Islamic World

Thu 16 Feb 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the flourishing of maths in the Islamic world from C8th.

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Parasitism

Thu 26 Jan 2017

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another

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Johannes Kepler

Thu 29 Dec 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.

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John Dalton

Thu 27 Oct 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton.

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Plasma

Thu 13 Oct 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter.

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Zeno's Paradoxes

Thu 22 Sep 2016

Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno

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The Invention of Photography

Thu 7 Jul 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.

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Penicillin

Thu 9 Jun 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of penicillin.

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Euclid's Elements

Thu 28 Apr 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Elements of Euclid.

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1816, the Year Without a Summer

Thu 21 Apr 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.

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The Neutron

Thu 14 Apr 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron.

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Robert Hooke

Thu 18 Feb 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 17th-century scientist Robert Hooke.

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Chromatography

Thu 4 Feb 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins, development and uses of chromatography.

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Saturn

Thu 14 Jan 2016

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet Saturn.

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Michael Faraday

Christmas Eve 2015

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Michael Faraday.

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Circadian Rhythms

Thu 17 Dec 2015

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss circadian rhythms.

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P v NP

Thu 5 Nov 2015

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematical problem of P versus NP.

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Perpetual Motion

Thu 24 Sep 2015

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss perpetual motion.