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Series 23
Chuckle, Snigger and LOL
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain get serious about the science of laughter
24 May 2025,·29 mins
Can eating honey help save bees?
Bee populations are declining - could eating honey help them?
23 May 2025,·26 mins
Does the pandemic agreement make the world safer?
An international agreement to prepare for future pandemics is adopted. What does it mean?
22 May 2025,·30 mins
Claudia de Rham on playing with gravity
Claudia de Rham on defying gravity and understanding its fundamental nature.
20 May 2025,·30 mins
Story time
The news you know, the science you don't
23 May 2025,·50 mins
WHO Pandemic Agreement reached
124 countries have agreed on a global effort to fight future pandemic health threats.
22 May 2025,·40 mins
A promising new antimalarial
A new antimalarial targets disease-causing parasites and lasts a year on mosquito nets
21 May 2025,·26 mins
The true story of how a forgotten data company in '60s America invented the future.
17 May 2025,·75 mins
Protecting your invention
You've had a 'lightbulb moment' and invented something amazing. Now you need a patent.
20 May 2025,·26 mins
8. The Terminator
Musk fears a 'Terminator future', where robots destroy humans. So why is he creating AI?
08 Apr 2025,·28 mins
Apollo 13
S2 Ep.07 Resurrection
"I still have nightmares about this." Can the crew survive the dangers of re-entry?
08 Jun 2020,·60 mins
Gwen Adshead - Four Questions about Violence
Can we change violent minds?
In her final Reith Lecture, Dr Gwen Adshead asks if we can change violent minds.
17 Dec 2024,·57 mins
How Music Can Hold and Heal Us
We explore how music—especially lullabies—heals like medicine.
13 Mar 2025,·25 mins
Series 1
Sleep Deprivation and Insomnia
If we don't snooze, we lose. How badly does lack of sleep affect our mind and our body?
19 Dec 2017,·28 mins
Unstoppable: Inge Lehmann
How seismologist Inge Lehmann rewrote geophysics by discovering Earth’s inner core
12 May 2025,·28 mins
Welsh Whisky
Adam Walton finds out about the science and technology involved in whisky production.
20 May 2025,·29 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
What makes a good climate novel?
A new climate fiction prize has been launched in the UK. We talk to the Nigerian winner.
18 May 2025,·22 mins
AI: A Future for Humans?
The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures.
22 Dec 2021,·28 mins
Leaving Africa
How we overcame oceans and icy landscapes as we migrated
28 Oct 1999,·14 mins
Programme 4
Explaining proprioception, the Gaia hypothesis and mapping as a process
24 Mar 1999,·28 mins
Memory
Examination into the condition of Alzheimer's disease
15 May 2000,·24 mins
8. I Sung of Chaos
Is Silicon Valley’s radical experiment to connect the world about to implode?
18 Mar 2024,·32 mins
Nicolas Bourbaki
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
25 Jun 2010,·15 mins
A Wonderful Catastrophe
How can we cope with the challenges of digital communication?
12 Jul 2024,·14 mins
Doing the Maths
First broadcast in 2006. The mathematics of infinity are discussed
27 Sep 2006,·22 mins
Life after Life
First broadcast in 1999. Do you believe in life after death?
15 Jun 1999,·12 mins
Can AI Save Darth Vader?
Aleks and Kevin ask if the Dark Lord can live forever with an AI voice.
12 Feb 2025,·28 mins
Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Hooke's Law
Explaining Hooke's Law, which was devised by Robert Hooke in 1660
20 Sep 1995,·8 mins
