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Radio 4,·75 episodes
Bridget Kendall and guests discuss subversion and inversion in a topsy-turvy world.
26 Sep 2015,·28 mins
What shells can tell us about our past, present and future.
05 Sep 2015,·28 mins
The marvellous ability to create almost anything we want in our minds.
29 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Shape-shifting in everyday objects, our brains and plastic waste.
22 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Should we bring the woolly mammoth back to life, and should ancient languages be revived?
15 Aug 2015,·28 mins
The joys and perils of porcelain, kaolin and volcanic soils.
08 Aug 2015,·28 mins
What is the future of graphene and other two-dimensional materials?
01 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Bridget Kendall and guests explore how cells, molecules and robots achieve complexity.
04 Apr 2015,·28 mins
How a spark of inspiration is transformed into a line on canvas or a line of verse.
03 Jan 2015,·28 mins
Spatial processing in the brain, bird migration and natural navigational clues for all.
27 Dec 2014,·28 mins
Bridget Kendall and guests discuss alien plants and animals, alien beings and alien dreams
11 Oct 2014,·28 mins
Transforming biosciences with particles just a few billionths of a metre across.
04 Oct 2014,·28 mins
The advantages and disadvantages of speaking more than one language.
27 Sep 2014,·28 mins
The curious properties of bubbles in the oceans, in our bodies and in art.
20 Sep 2014,·28 mins
Where is the dividing line between normal behaviour and a mental health problem?
30 Aug 2014,·28 mins
What role can art play in the political discourse of post-apartheid South Africa?
23 Aug 2014,·28 mins
When being alone is a blessing, and when it is a blight.
16 Aug 2014,·28 mins
What is it like to be on the edge of Europe? And do modern societies create new outcasts?
09 Aug 2014,·28 mins
Bridget Kendall and her guests explore the slender filaments that are essential to life.
02 Aug 2014,·28 mins
Bridget invites listeners to zoom out into space, to gain new perspectives on reality.
26 Apr 2014,·28 mins
Bridget Kendall asks why there are such lucrative markets in fake art and fake medicines.
19 Apr 2014,·28 mins
Transforming waste into valuable products, with Bridget Kendall and guests.
22 Feb 2014,·28 mins
Do our hands mark us out as human? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.
04 Jan 2014,·28 mins
Marvel at the frozen world of the polar ice caps with Bridget Kendall and guests.
28 Dec 2013,·28 mins
Does the explosion of social media in China empower the individual or the state?
16 Nov 2013,·28 mins
Bridget Kendall and guests explore the shadowy world of tracking and surveillance.
05 Oct 2013,·28 mins
How different are our second attempts at something compared to the first time?
28 Sep 2013,·28 mins
Good or bad? Useful or just an annoyance? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss dust and ash.
21 Sep 2013,·28 mins
Bridget Kendall and her guests shine a light on crystals, both scientific and artistic.
31 Aug 2013,·28 mins
Bridget Kendall and her guests discuss fragility, in humans and in ecosystems.
24 Aug 2013,·28 mins
