339 Episodes

  1. Gareth Collett on a career in bomb disposal

    Published: 21/10/2025
  2. Sonia Gandhi on building model brains to tackle Parkinson’s disease

    Published: 14/10/2025
  3. Mark O'Shea on close encounters with venomous snakes

    Published: 7/10/2025
  4. Kevin Fong on medical planning for Mars and Earth-based emergencies

    Published: 15/07/2025
  5. Dame Pratibha Gai on training atoms to do what we want

    Published: 8/07/2025
  6. Catherine Heymans on the lighter side of the dark universe

    Published: 1/07/2025
  7. Tim Coulson on how predators shape ecosystems and evolution

    Published: 24/06/2025
  8. Claudia de Rham on playing with gravity

    Published: 17/06/2025
  9. Neil Lawrence on taking down the 'digital oligarchy' and why we shouldn't fear AI

    Published: 10/06/2025
  10. Liz Morris on Antarctic adventures and the melting polar ice sheets

    Published: 3/06/2025
  11. Anthony Fauci on a medical career navigating pandemics and presidents

    Published: 27/05/2025
  12. Brian Schmidt on Nobel Prize-winning supernovae and the joys of making wine

    Published: 22/04/2025
  13. Jacqueline McKinley on unearthing bones and stories at Britain's ancient burial sites

    Published: 15/04/2025
  14. Jonathan Shepherd on a career as a crime-fighting surgeon

    Published: 8/04/2025
  15. Doyne Farmer on making sense of chaos for a better world

    Published: 1/04/2025
  16. Tori Herridge on ancient dwarf elephants and frozen mammoths

    Published: 25/03/2025
  17. Sir Magdi Yacoub on pioneering heart transplant surgery

    Published: 18/03/2025
  18. Tim Peake on his journey to becoming an astronaut and science in space

    Published: 31/12/2024
  19. Anna Korre on capturing carbon dioxide and defying expectations

    Published: 24/09/2024
  20. Rosalie David on the science of Egyptian mummies

    Published: 17/09/2024

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Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future

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