The programme that explains the present by exploring the past.
World Service,·763 episodes
How do you catch something that moves at 300 million meters per second?
21 Mar 2015,·40 mins
How is people management in the workplace changing?
14 Mar 2015,·40 mins
Author Will Self, Armand Leroi, Leslie Vinjamuri and Matt Parker on changing foundations
07 Mar 2015,·40 mins
From speech recognition to computer vision, can Deep Learning transform our world?
28 Feb 2015,·40 mins
How easy is it to say “no” where you live?
21 Feb 2015,·40 mins
Rhythm is within us, all around us and in space. But what is it?
14 Feb 2015,·40 mins
The cat-and-mouse world of computer encryption
07 Feb 2015,·40 mins
Does it matter if we write less by hand?
31 Jan 2015,·40 mins
The marvellous ability to create almost anything we want in our minds
24 Jan 2015,·40 mins
Our changing attitude to wood and living in a ‘plyscraper’
17 Jan 2015,·40 mins
The etiquette of interrupting a conversation, and the distracting impact of our gadgetry
10 Jan 2015,·40 mins
How do our feet work when we stand or walk, or when we dance with them?
03 Jan 2015,·40 mins
How important is our ability to postpone pleasure and can we ever master it?
27 Dec 2014,·40 mins
Do the things we own and collect enrich our lives or weigh us down?
20 Dec 2014,·40 mins
Do we have to have a ‘pecking order’?
13 Dec 2014,·40 mins
How seemingly insignificant decisions can lead to dramatic outcomes
06 Dec 2014,·40 mins
Are our personalities shaped by what we are born with or shaped by our experiences?
29 Nov 2014,·40 mins
How do organisms change and evolve to adapt to their environment?
22 Nov 2014,·40 mins
How a spark of inspiration is transformed into a line on canvas or a line of verse.
15 Nov 2014,·40 mins
Who can we trust in the world of Big Data and how is it changing our lives?
08 Nov 2014,·40 mins
When is regularity good and when does it become boring, or even oppressive?
01 Nov 2014,·40 mins
Do we want robots to be more social? The Forum at World-Changing Ideas Summit in New York
25 Oct 2014,·40 mins
Spatial processing in the brain, bird migration and natural navigational clues.
18 Oct 2014,·40 mins
How to approach uncertainty in the modern world
11 Oct 2014,·40 mins
How simple cells, molecules and even robots can work together to achieve complexity
04 Oct 2014,·40 mins
Why do some people believe in aliens and extra-terrestrials, and not others?
27 Sep 2014,·40 mins
The impact of leaving the land to its own devices
20 Sep 2014,·40 mins
Transforming biosciences with particles just a few billionths of a metre across
13 Sep 2014,·40 mins
Why they are essential to our planet and how they can even shape our psyche
06 Sep 2014,·40 mins
The advantages and disadvantages of speaking more than one language
30 Aug 2014,·40 mins
