4. Science Podcast
Science Podcast
Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
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279 Episodes – 2024-02-06
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Thu 5 Oct 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny lifeforms that sustain so much life on earth.
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Thu 14 Sep 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Einstein's astonishing impact on theoretical physics.
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Thu 1 Jun 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.
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Thu 20 Apr 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist.
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Thu 23 Feb 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.
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Thu 2 Feb 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.
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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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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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Thu 29 Sep 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the atomic particle that's proved a gateway to modernity.
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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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Thu 14 Apr 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.
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Thu 10 Mar 2022
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the study of earthquakes helps reveal Earth's secrets.
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Thu 11 Nov 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siblings at the forefront of 18th-century astronomy
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Thu 28 Oct 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which form the now-threatened reefs.
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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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Thu 16 Sep 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs.
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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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Thu 8 Apr 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.
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Thu 11 Mar 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.
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Thu 4 Feb 2021
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
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Thu 31 Dec 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.
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Thu 15 Oct 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
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Thu 5 Mar 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
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Thu 27 Feb 2020
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
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Thu 23 Jan 2020
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.
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Thu 31 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how parents from different species can reproduce
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Thu 3 Oct 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Thu 23 May 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.
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Thu 11 Apr 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.
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Thu 21 Feb 2019
A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.
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Thu 7 Feb 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.
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Thu 24 Jan 2019
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.
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Thu 27 Dec 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
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Thu 1 Nov 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the molecules linked to cell functioning and ageing
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Thu 20 Sep 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
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Thu 21 Jun 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
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Thu 26 Apr 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Proton, found in the nuclei of all elements.
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Thu 12 Apr 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.
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Thu 22 Feb 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin.
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Thu 15 Feb 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss fungi.
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Thu 1 Feb 2018
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the biology of squid, octopus, cuttlefish and nautilus.
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Thu 30 Nov 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gauss, one of the great mathematicians.
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Thu 26 Oct 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss which dinosaurs were feathered, and their links to birds.
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Thu 6 Jul 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration
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Thu 1 Jun 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss enzymes, the catalysts essential for life.
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Thu 18 May 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louis Pasteur, known as a founder of microbiology.
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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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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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Thu 26 Jan 2017
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another
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Thu 29 Dec 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.
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Thu 27 Oct 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton.
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Thu 13 Oct 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter.
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Thu 22 Sep 2016
Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno
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Thu 7 Jul 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.
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Thu 9 Jun 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of penicillin.
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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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Thu 14 Apr 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron.
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Thu 18 Feb 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 17th-century scientist Robert Hooke.
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Thu 4 Feb 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins, development and uses of chromatography.
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Thu 14 Jan 2016
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet Saturn.
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Christmas Eve 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Michael Faraday.
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Thu 17 Dec 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss circadian rhythms.
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Thu 5 Nov 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematical problem of P versus NP.
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Thu 24 Sep 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss perpetual motion.
Thu 25 Jun 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss extremophiles and astrobiology.
Thu 28 May 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the puzzling science of glass.
Thu 30 Apr 2015
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Earth's core.
Thu 26 Mar 2015
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the scientific achievements of the Curie family.
Thu 12 Mar 2015
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss dark matter, the 'missing mass' of the universe.
Thu 12 Feb 2015
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the photon, the fundamental particle of light.
Thu 11 Dec 2014
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss behavioural ecology.
Thu 13 Nov 2014
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Thu 30 Oct 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and science of nuclear fusion.
Thu 25 Sep 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Euler's number, e.
Thu 10 Jul 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the science of the sun, source of all our energy.
Thu 12 Jun 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the pioneering scientist Robert Boyle.
Thu 15 May 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss photosynthesis.
Thu 3 Apr 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the states of matter, from solids to plasmas.
Thu 27 Feb 2014
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the eye and how it works.
Thu 20 Feb 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Social Darwinism.
Thu 30 Jan 2014
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the geological theory of Catastrophism.
Thu 19 Dec 2013
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss complexity theory.
Thu 28 Nov 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the development of the microscope.
Thu 10 Oct 2013
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Roman physician and medical theorist Galen.
Thu 3 Oct 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.
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Thu 19 Sep 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the French thinker Blaise Pascal.
Thu 4 Jul 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the invention of radio.
Thu 6 Jun 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Einstein's theory of relativity.
Thu 16 May 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss cosmic rays.
Thu 28 Mar 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss water, one of the most remarkable of all molecules.
Thu 7 Mar 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss absolute zero, the lowest possible temperature.
Thu 28 Feb 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian archaeologist Augustus Pitt-Rivers.
Thu 17 Jan 2013
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss comets, the 'dirty snowballs' of the solar system.
Thu 29 Nov 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and achievements of crystallography.
Thu 25 Oct 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Fermat's Last Theorem.
Thu 13 Sep 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the biology and origins of the cell.
Thu 10 May 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the mathematical study of decision-making
Thu 12 Apr 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the emergence of geology as a scientific discipline.
Thu 29 Mar 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the measurement of time.
Thu 23 Feb 2012
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of electrical conduction.
Thu 26 Jan 2012
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Scientific Method.
Thu 29 Dec 2011
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the giant molecules that underpin all life.
Thu 15 Sep 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Hippocratic Oath.
The Origins of Infectious Disease
Thu 9 Jun 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of infectious disease.
Thu 14 Apr 2011
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutrino, the so-called 'ghost particle'.
Thu 3 Mar 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the age of the Universe.
Thu 10 Feb 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the nervous system.
Thu 13 Jan 2011
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss mathematical randomness and pseudorandomness.
Thu 9 Dec 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the American technological pioneer Thomas Edison.
Women and Enlightenment Science
Thu 4 Nov 2010
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women in Enlightenment science.
Thu 21 Oct 2010
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of logic.
Thu 23 Sep 2010
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss imaginary numbers.
Thu 8 Jul 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pliny's Natural History, one of the first encyclopedias.
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Thu 24 Jun 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the Antarctic and its exploration.
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Thu 17 Jun 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution and characteristics of the Neanderthals.
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The Cavendish Family in Science
Thu 20 May 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the scientific achievements of the Cavendish family.
Thu 6 May 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cool Universe.
Thu 4 Mar 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what new research reveals about the infant brain.
Mathematics' Unintended Consequences
Thu 11 Feb 2010
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the unintended consequences of mathematical discoveries.
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science
Thu 7 Jan 2010
The more discreet role played by the Society in the 20th century.
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science
Wed 6 Jan 2010
The 19th century blooms scientifically with numerous alternative, specialist societies.
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science
Tue 5 Jan 2010
How Newton tested the lines between government-funded research and public access.
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1In Our Time: The Royal Society and British Science
Mon 4 Jan 2010
Melvyn Bragg travels to Oxford, where the young Christopher Wren and friends experimented.
Thu 10 Dec 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans.
Thu 12 Nov 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of radiation, from radio waves to gamma rays
The Geological Formation of Britain
Thu 22 Oct 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the geological formation of Britain.
Thu 24 Sep 2009
The dispute between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented calculus.
Thu 9 Jul 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ediacara Biota.
Thu 2 Jul 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the radical philosophy of the Vienna Circle.
Thu 21 May 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolutionary history of the whale.
Thu 30 Apr 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vacuum of Space.
Thu 2 Apr 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Jacobean thinker Francis Bacon and Baconian Science.
Thu 12 Mar 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library of Alexandria.
The Measurement Problem in Physics
Thu 5 Mar 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the measurement problem in physics.
Thu 19 Feb 2009
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the observatory at Jaipur.
Darwin: Life After OriginsDarwin: In Our Time
Thu 8 Jan 2009
Melvyn visits Darwin's home at Down House in Kent.
Darwin: On the Origin of SpeciesDarwin: In Our Time
Wed 7 Jan 2009
How Darwin was eventually persuaded to publish On the Origin of Species in November 1859.
Darwin: The Voyage of the BeagleDarwin: In Our Time
Tue 6 Jan 2009
How Darwin's work during the Beagle expedition influenced his theories.
Darwin: On the Origins of Charles DarwinDarwin: In Our Time
Mon 5 Jan 2009
Darwin's early life in Shropshire and his three years at Cambridge.
Thu 18 Dec 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of time.
Thu 4 Dec 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of scientific ideas about Heat.
Thu 13 Nov 2008
Melvyn Bragg examines neuroscience, the relationship between the mind and the brain.
Thu 16 Oct 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th and 19th century quest for the spark of life.
Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
Thu 9 Oct 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work.
Thu 19 Jun 2008
Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient astrological idea of the music of the spheres.
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Thu 5 Jun 2008
Melvyn Bragg examines the destructive career of the Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko.
Thu 29 May 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability.
Thu 8 May 2008
The history of cultural, medical, artistic and philosophical ideas about the human brain.
Thu 3 Apr 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion.
Thu 6 Mar 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ada Lovelace - the Victorian ‘enchantress of numbers’.
Thu 21 Feb 2008
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Multiverse.
Thu 24 Jan 2008
Melvyn Bragg examines plate tectonics, a theory that transformed our idea of the earth.
Thu 20 Dec 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the four humours in medical history.
Thu 6 Dec 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses mutation in genetics and evolution.
Thu 29 Nov 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the mathematical and cultural mysteries of the Fibonacci Sequence.
Thu 15 Nov 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier.
Thu 4 Oct 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses Antimatter in particle physics and cosmology.
Thu 28 Jun 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Permian-Triassic boundary in evolutionary history.
Thu 14 Jun 2007
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Renaissance Astrology.
Thu 17 May 2007
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of Gravitational Waves.
Thu 19 Apr 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the idea of symmetry in art and nature.
Thu 29 Mar 2007
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of anaesthetics.
Thu 8 Mar 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of microbiology, the study of microscopic life.
Thu 1 Mar 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the science of optics
Thu 8 Feb 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Anglo-Austrian philosopher Karl Popper.
Thu 25 Jan 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Greek mathematician Archimedes and his famous cry of “eureka!”
Thu 18 Jan 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Jesuits, “the school masters of Europe”.
Thu 11 Jan 2007
Melvyn Bragg discusses the planet Mars, a source of endless fascination in human history
Thu 14 Dec 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 5000 year long story of Indian Maths.
Thu 30 Nov 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speed of light, lynchpin of Einstein’s universe.
Thu 2 Nov 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a puzzle that may explain the shape of the universe.
Thu 19 Oct 2006
Melvyn Bragg examines the Needham Question; why Europe, not China made modern technology.
Thu 28 Sep 2006
Melvyn Bragg examines the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander Von Humboldt.
Thu 29 Jun 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the creation and destruction of galaxies.
Thu 15 Jun 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss carbon, which forms the basis of all organic life.
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Thu 1 Jun 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the heart.
Thu 4 May 2006
Melvyn Bragg examines the relationship between astronomy and British Imperial expansion.
Thu 20 Apr 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for immunisation and its impact on society.
Thu 23 Mar 2006
The history of the formation of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy.
Thu 9 Mar 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss negative numbers, a history of mystery and suspicion.
Thu 16 Feb 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the six million year old story of human evolution.
Thu 19 Jan 2006
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss relativism; a philosophy with no absolute truths.
Thu 12 Jan 2006
Melvyn Bragg examines prime numbers and their mysterious role in the universe of numbers.
Thu 8 Dec 2005
Melvyn Bragg investigates artificial intelligence; can a computer imitate the human mind?
Thu 24 Nov 2005
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for the Graviton particle in physics.
Thu 3 Nov 2005
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the unique properties of asteroids.
Thu 13 Oct 2005
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of the mammals which began 65 million years ago.
Thu 29 Sep 2005
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and mysterious force of magnetism.
Thu 23 Jun 2005
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the KT Boundary and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Thu 2 Jun 2005
Melvyn Bragg explores Renaissance Mathematics, when maths moved from an art to a science.
Thu 28 Apr 2005
Melvyn Bragg examines perception: how the brain reacts to the mass of data crowding it.
Thu 17 Mar 2005
Melvyn Bragg examines recently discovered 'dark energy' and its effect on the universe.
Thu 24 Feb 2005
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alchemy, the ancient science of transformations.
Thu 17 Feb 2005
Melvyn Bragg examines the Cambrian period, when there was an explosion of life on Earth.
Thu 13 Jan 2005
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of thought about the mind/body problem in philosophy.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Thu 16 Dec 2004
Melvyn Bragg examines the Second Law of Thermodynamics from steam to the Big Bang.
Thu 2 Dec 2004
The extraordinary mind and theories of the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
Thu 18 Nov 2004
The history of the quest to find the Higgs Boson, also known as the 'God Particle'.
Thu 4 Nov 2004
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dawn of the age of electricity.
Thu 23 Sep 2004
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss when and how life on earth originated.
Thu 2 Sep 2004
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the longest and most detailed number in nature.
Thu 17 Jun 2004
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Renaissance obsession with Magic.
Thu 27 May 2004
Melvyn Bragg examines our knowledge of the planets in both our and other solar systems.
Thu 13 May 2004
Melvyn Bragg examines the number between 1 and -1, once denounced as the devil's work.
Thu 22 Apr 2004
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how emotional experiences can become physical symptoms.
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Thu 25 Mar 2004
Melvyn Bragg explores the 30 year search to solve all the biggest questions in physics.
Thu 4 Mar 2004
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the function and interpretation of dreams.
Thu 19 Feb 2004
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear science.
Thu 29 Jan 2004
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and history of codes.
Boxing Day 2003
Melvyn Bragg discusses Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 18th century French precursor to Darwin.
Thu 20 Nov 2003
Melvyn Bragg examines the age of the Earth and its division into four great Eons.
Thu 23 Oct 2003
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the nature and existence of mathematical infinity.
Thu 2 Oct 2003
The work and legacy of the often overlooked 19th century scientist James Clerk Maxwell.
Thu 10 Jul 2003
Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to define humanity’s part in the natural world.
Thu 3 Jul 2003
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the formation and eruption of volcanoes.
Thu 5 Jun 2003
Melvyn Bragg examines an 18th century group of pioneering scientists and engineers.
Thu 29 May 2003
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the function and significance of memory.
Thu 22 May 2003
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss blood, from medical progress to the link to the divine.
Thu 27 Mar 2003
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life cycle of stars.
Thu 6 Mar 2003
Melvyn Bragg explores the fascinating and mystifying science of meteorology.
Thu 13 Feb 2003
Melvyn Bragg explores the question and theories of a grand design in the universe.
Thu 19 Dec 2002
Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient origins of our Gregorian calendar.
Thu 12 Dec 2002
Melvyn Bragg examines how humans have understood and fought disease throughout history.
Thu 28 Nov 2002
Melvyn Bragg investigates the creatives forces of the imagination.
Thu 7 Nov 2002
Melvyn Bragg examines whether our natures are innate or defined by unbringing.
Thu 24 Oct 2002
Melvyn Bragg explores the origin of the concept and the historical role of the scientist.
Thu 11 Jul 2002
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of politics on psychoanalysis.
Thu 23 May 2002
Melvyn Bragg examines the role of narcotics and stimulants in the history of medicine.
Thu 16 May 2002
Melvyn Bragg examines how Chaos Theory has affected our understanding of the universe.
Thu 2 May 2002
Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to reconcile Quantum Theory and classical physics.
Thu 4 Apr 2002
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our chances of ever discovering life on another planet.
Thu 14 Feb 2002
The 2000 year old history of mankind's quest to understand the human body.
Thu 7 Feb 2002
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shape, size and topology of the universe.
Thu 10 Jan 2002
Melvyn Bragg examines the 20th century development of nuclear physics as a science.
Thu 13 Dec 2001
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the development of the science of genetics.
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Thu 22 Nov 2001
Melvyn Bragg explores what science has revealed, and we still don't know, about the sea.
Thu 5 Jul 2001
Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins of the Earth.
Thu 12 Apr 2001
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Black Holes, the ghosts of massive stars.
Thu 22 Mar 2001
The significance of fossils in history and the impact of techniques in understanding them.
Thu 22 Feb 2001
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 20th century attempts to understand the Quantum world.
Thu 1 Feb 2001
Melvyn Bragg examines whether agriculture or trade drove 19th century British imperialism.
Thu 11 Jan 2001
Melvyn Bragg examines whether mathematics is a process of invention or of discovery.
Thu 9 Nov 2000
Melvyn Bragg assesses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature.
Thu 2 Nov 2000
Melvyn Bragg explores the basis and context for the ideas of Evolutionary Psychology.
Thu 19 Oct 2000
Melvyn Bragg considers whether what is true in physics is true in all areas of existence.
Thu 29 Jun 2000
Melvyn Bragg investigates how neuroscience can explain the enigmas of consciousness.
Thu 25 May 2000
Melvyn Bragg explores chemistry's ongoing mission to understand irreducible substances.
Thu 27 Apr 2000
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution of the human species.
Thu 6 Apr 2000
Melvyn Bragg examines the science of taxonomy; the classification of the natural world.
Thu 24 Feb 2000
The 20th century pursuit in physics for the ultimate theory of everything.
Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment
Thu 10 Feb 2000
Melvyn Bragg assesses the scientific legacy of the 18th century German poet Goethe.
Thu 13 Jan 2000
Melvyn Bragg explores the social and economic consequences of the information revolution.
Thu 6 Jan 2000
Melvyn Bragg examines predictions and solutions for global warming and rising sea levels.
Thu 30 Dec 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of mankind’s attempt to understand the nature of time.
Thu 16 Dec 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the technological advances and ethics of modern medicine.
Thu 25 Nov 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines why ideas about consciousness preoccupy philosophers and scientists.
Thu 23 Sep 1999
Melvyn Bragg explores the part genes play in our personalities.
Thu 22 Jul 1999
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and our mechanisms of coping with pain.
Thu 1 Jul 1999
Melvyn Bragg explores the origins, manifestations and possibilities of intelligence.
Thu 17 Jun 1999
Melvyn Bragg looks at the 20th century shift from industrial to information society.
Thu 27 May 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines how our collective and individual ways of remembering have changed.
Thu 20 May 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of what we know about the origins of the universe.
Thu 6 May 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of mathematics in relation to other sciences.
Thu 29 Apr 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are near to achieving the thinking, feeling computer.
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Thu 15 Apr 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the future of gene therapy and advances in evolutionary biology.
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Thu 18 Mar 1999
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of animals in humankind’s search for knowledge.
Thu 18 Feb 1999
Melvyn Bragg looks at how cyberspace has introduced a new concept of space in our world.
Thu 11 Feb 1999
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether the formation of language is innate or cultural.
Thu 4 Feb 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the relevance of psychoanalysis at the end of the 20th century.
Thu 28 Jan 1999
Melvyn Bragg looks at the ethical, economic and biological implications of living longer.
Thu 14 Jan 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the implications of the developments in genetic engineering.
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.
Thu 19 Nov 1998
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our knowledge of memory and the functioning of the brain.
Thu 5 Nov 1998
Melvyn Bragg examines how perceptions of science have changed in the 20th century.
Thu 29 Oct 1998
Melvyn Bragg examines whether science has ruined our sense of poetic wonder at the world.
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