Home of the best science programmes from BBC Radio 4 introduced by Dr. Alex Lathbridge.
Radio 4,·62 episodes
India Rakusen and guests introduce you to anatomy of the womb.
01 Apr 2022,·15 mins
Lucy Cooke meets females from the animal world that smash the ‘dominant male’ stereotype.
03 Mar 2022,·28 mins
03 Mar 2022,·29 mins
Zoologist Lucy Cooke uncovers stories of the female animals defying Darwin’s “coy” label.
24 Feb 2022,·28 mins
Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of Mola mola the world's largest bony fish.
22 Dec 2021,·29 mins
Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the internal secrets to success of the Burmese python.
17 Dec 2021,·29 mins
Ben Garrod and Jess French glimpse inside three animals from the big wild world.
07 Dec 2021,·29 mins
What does it take to be a scientist? Jim Al-Khalili and distinguished guests discuss.
12 Oct 2021,·56 mins
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Sir Patrick Vallance.
12 Oct 2021,·37 mins
Prof Andrea Sella on the shifting image of the scientist in popular culture.
12 Oct 2021,·57 mins
Scientifically celebrates the life of Sir Clive Sinclair.
17 Sep 2021,·14 mins
As The Life Scientific turns ten we look back at the time Jim became the interviewee.
03 Sep 2021,·35 mins
Gene edited babies and gene drives to eradicate pests.
11 Aug 2021,·29 mins
How genetic engineering became big business.
28 Jul 2021,·29 mins
The story of the controversial birth of genetic engineering in the early 1970s.
21 Jul 2021,·29 mins
Kate Molleson tells the story of Wanda Diaz-Merced and her pioneering work with sound.
24 Jun 2021,·28 mins
Mark Miodownik looks at how repair and repair-ability fits into our sustainable future.
12 May 2021,·35 mins
Exploring how citizens are fighting back for the right to repair their own stuff.
05 May 2021,·35 mins
Why electronic gadgets don’t last as long as they used to and why repairing them is hard.
30 Apr 2021,·34 mins
The story of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly into space
21 Apr 2021,·57 mins
Nick Baker collects some programmes about how technology has changed our physical world.
07 Apr 2021,·60 mins
31 Mar 2021,·59 mins
Nick Baker collects some programmes about how technology has changed our physical world
25 Mar 2021,·60 mins
Stigler's Law was first hypothesised by his friend, Robert K. Merton.
15 Feb 2021,·14 mins
Robin Ince investigates Lawrence J Peter's analysis of hierarchical structures.
Comedian Robin Ince explores laws that govern our lives that really aren't, but should be.
Comedian Robin Ince explores laws that govern our lives that really aren’t, but should be.
Adam Rutherford explores the science behind why recovery from covid can be so protracted.
30 Sep 2020,·28 mins
A story of the discovery of genetic scissors that accidentally enabled fast gene editing.
27 Aug 2020,·14 mins
