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Laws That Aren't Laws: The Peter Principle - Episode 4
Robin Ince investigates Lawrence J Peter's analysis of hierarchical structures.
Laws That Aren't Laws: Stigler's Law - Episode 5
Stigler's Law was first hypothesised by his friend, Robert K. Merton.
Hardware, Software, Anywhere: Software - Episode 1
Nick Baker collects some programmes about how technology has changed our physical world
Hardware, Software, Anywhere: Hardware - Episode 2
Nick Baker collects some programmes about how technology has changed our physical world.
Hardware, Software, Anywhere: Anywhere - Episode 3
Gagarin and the lost Moon
The story of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly into space
Dare To Repair: How We Broke the Future - Episode 1
Why electronic gadgets don’t last as long as they used to and why repairing them is hard.
Dare To Repair: The Right to Repair - Episode 2
Exploring how citizens are fighting back for the right to repair their own stuff.
Dare to Repair: Fixing the Future - Episode 3
Mark Miodownik looks at how repair and repair-ability fits into our sustainable future.
The Blind Astronomer
Kate Molleson tells the story of Wanda Diaz-Merced and her pioneering work with sound.
Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares - Episode 1
The story of the controversial birth of genetic engineering in the early 1970s.
Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares - Episode 2
How genetic engineering became big business.
Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares - Episode 3
Gene edited babies and gene drives to eradicate pests.
Jim Al-Khalili's Life Scientific
As The Life Scientific turns ten we look back at the time Jim became the interviewee.
Celebrating the life of Sir Clive Sinclair: Computers at home
Scientifically celebrates the life of Sir Clive Sinclair.
The Men in the White Coats
Prof Andrea Sella on the shifting image of the scientist in popular culture.
The Sir Patrick Vallance interview
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Sir Patrick Vallance.
The Life Scientific at 10: What does it take to be a scientist?
What does it take to be a scientist? Jim Al-Khalili and distinguished guests discuss.
Wild Inside: Jungle Royalty - The Jaguar
Ben Garrod and Jess French glimpse inside three animals from the big wild world.
Wild Inside:The Burmese Python
Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the internal secrets to success of the Burmese python.
Wild Inside: The Ocean Sunfish
Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of Mola mola the world's largest bony fish.
Political Animals: Sex, Monkeys and the 'Coy Female' Myth - 1/3
Zoologist Lucy Cooke uncovers stories of the female animals defying Darwin’s “coy” label.
Political Animals: Mole-Rat Queens and Genital Power - 2/3
Lucy Cooke meets females from the animal world that smash the ‘dominant male’ stereotype.
Political Animals: Sex-Switching Fish and Non-Binary Brains - 3/3
28ish Days Later - Day One: Power
India Rakusen and guests introduce you to anatomy of the womb.
