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  1. Planespotting Live

    The joy of a very British hobby, revealing the true pleasures of plane spotting...live!

    BBC Four

  2. Revolutions: The Ideas that Changed the World

    The amazing story of how we made the modern world, told through six fantastic inventions.

    BBC Four

  3. Professor Data - Keeping Us Safe

    A profile of Prof. Jonathan Shepherd who pioneered a new way to prevent violence in cities

    BBC Radio Wales

  4. Becoming Artificial

    Jason Smith examines the growth of artificial intelligence in today's society.

    BBC Radio Wales

  5. Hindi Click

    Technology News from BBC Hindi

    BBC Hindi TV

  6. The Art of Innovation

    How art and science have inspired each other.

    BBC Radio 4

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  7. Jess Davies Digital Detox

    Model and social media influencer Jess Davies breaks the habit to start a digital detox.

    BBC Radio Wales

  8. World Wise Web

    Teenagers talk to technology pioneers who have shaped their lives

    BBC World Service

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  9. Who Are You Calling Fat?

    People living with obesity move in together to explore what it means to be larger bodied.

    BBC Two

  10. Making Babies

    Three couples suffering from unexplained infertility embark on IVF treatment.

    BBC Scotland

  11. Climategate: Science of a Scandal

    What happened when an email hack suggested that climate change caused by humans is a hoax?

    BBC Four

  12. Scientifically...

    Home of the best science programmes from BBC Radio 4.

    BBC Radio 4

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  13. Hardware, Software, Anywhere

    Nick Baker collects some programmes about how technology has changed our physical world.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  14. Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

    Liz Bonnin investigates whether our growing hunger for meat is destroying our planet.

    BBC One

  15. Herbert a Heledd Yn Achub Y Byd!

    Dwy o ferched ifanc y ddinas yn trio newid eu ffyrdd er lles y blaned.

    BBC Radio Cymru

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  16. Secrets of Skin

    Professor Ben Garrod explores how skin has allowed vertebrates to conquer the planet.

    BBC Four

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    Swooshes, Seaboards, Synths and Spawn

    Musician Bishi examines how tech and AI shape the future of music creation.

    BBC Radio 4

  18.

    The Stem Cell Hard Sell

    Lesley Curwen investigates the hope, hype and potential harm of stem cell treatments

    BBC Radio 4

  19. Einstein's Quantum Riddle

    The story of quantum entanglement, perhaps the strangest concept in science.

    BBC Four

  20. Concorde

    The incredible story of the Anglo-French Concorde airliner.

    BBC ALBA

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    Code Red

    The innovation in trauma science that's saving the lives of bleeding trauma patients.

    BBC Radio 4

  22. Dr Hannah Fry: Codebreaker

    Dr Hannah Fry brings you the best in codes, ciphers and secrets from the BBC Radio archive

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  23. Hi Tech Solutions

    Technology plays an increasingly important role in maximising farm and food production.

    BBC News

  24. 40 Winks with Sarah Breese

    Comedian Sarah Breese won't rest until she understands the science behind her insomnia.

    BBC Radio Wales

  25. Toxic Town: The Corby Poisonings

    The story of a horrific child-poisoning case and the mothers determined to find the truth.

    BBC Four

  26. How to Make

    Zoe Laughlin deconstructs three design classics before creating her own bespoke versions.

    BBC Four

  27. Ingenious

    Find out what you're made of, one gene at a time, with Dr Kat Arney.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  28. What Colour is Friday? Synaesthesia and Me

    Comedian Lorna Prichard explores the neural condition synaesthesia which colours her world

    BBC Radio Wales

  29. Pandora's Box

    Adam Curtis explores the cultural impact of 20th Century science.

    BBC Two

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  30. The Virus Hunters

    Tracking the virus hunters who race to understand and extinguish new pathogens.

    BBC Radio 4

  31. What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?

    Comedian Tony Slattery turns to psychiatry for some answers to his psychological problems.

    BBC Two

  32. Monkman & Seagull’s Genius Adventures

    Monkman and Seagull explore breakthroughs from the Industrial Revolution and Victorian era

    BBC Two

  33.

    Life, Uncertainty and VAR

    Tom Chivers asks what football's search for truth tells us about uncertainty in our lives.

    BBC Radio 4

  34.

    The New Tech Cold War

    Gordon Corera asks if the West is losing the technological race with China.

    BBC Radio 4

  35. Keeping Britain Fed

    How supermarkets are dealing with the most testing time in their history.

    BBC Two

  36.

    Mapping the Future

    Jerry Brotton navigates the transformation from paper to digital mapping.

    BBC Radio 4

  37. The science of Covid-19: What happens next?

    Animated explainers on the pandemic and the medical realities of the race for the vaccine

    BBC World Service

  38. Surviving the Virus: My Brother & Me

    Doctors and twins, Chris and Xand van Tulleken dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

    BBC One

  39. Going Viral: Social Media and the Coronavirus

    Jason Smith investigates whether Covid-19 has given social media platforms a new purpose.

    BBC Radio Wales

  40. The Climate Question

    Why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that.

    BBC World Service

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