Series 3
Gyles Brandreth
A conveyor duvet for quibbling couples. More of the public's loopy ideas!
22 Oct 2007,·30 mins
How is AI going to change science?
What role will humans play in the future of scientific research?
04 Jun 2026,·28 mins
3. Can AI help us win the World Cup?
With the World Cup around the corner, could AI help us win it?
10 Jun 2026,·28 mins
Tackling lithium battery fires on planes
Check before check-in. What's behind a new safety campaign about power banks on aircraft?
09 Jun 2026,·26 mins
Do plants have personalities?
Can brainless plants really think for themselves?
05 Jun 2026,·29 mins
How reading fiction impacts our mental health
What novels do for our minds, our imaginations and our well-being
10 Jun 2026,·26 mins
Science bears fruit
A shortage of India’s prized ‘king of mangoes’ has us exploring some fruity science.
05 Jun 2026,·51 mins
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie
Professor Helen Hastie on the positive future role for robots in our world.
08 Jun 2026,·26 mins
Can the World Cup cope with extreme heat?
Will hot temperatures affect players and fans? And what's the World Cup's climate impact?
07 Jun 2026,·26 mins
Blood Transfusions
Adam Walton highlights 80 years of the National Blood Transfusion Service.
09 Jun 2026,·29 mins
Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
6. F For Fake
Jamie and Jimmy explore where fakery goes next – but can you tell which is which?
15 Apr 2026,·28 mins
Series 24
Frosty Fractals
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain investigate nature's most intricate patterns
02 Jan 2026,·29 mins
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers
Dean Lomax on his unconventional route into palaeontology and making BIG discoveries.
28 Apr 2026,·28 mins
Artemis II
14. The Learnings
Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is back to talk about the mission and Artemis III
04 May 2026,·41 mins
What goes on in TikTok's Farlands?
TikTok’s Farlands turns doomscrolling into horror; and AI detectors changing how we write
04 Jun 2026,·42 mins
Series 1
Sleep Deprivation and Insomnia
If we don't snooze, we lose. How badly does lack of sleep affect our mind and our body?
19 Dec 2017,·28 mins
Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution
4. Fighting for Humanity in the Age of the Machine.
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives his fourth and final Reith Lecture.
16 Dec 2025,·57 mins
How Music Can Hold and Heal Us
We explore how music—especially lullabies—heals like medicine.
13 Mar 2025,·25 mins
The Hunting of The Quark
First broadcast in 1997. Inside protons and neutrons lurks the holy grail of physics
10 Dec 1997,·13 mins
8. The Terminator
Musk fears a 'Terminator future', where robots destroy humans. So why is he creating AI?
08 Apr 2025,·28 mins
AI: A Future for Humans?
The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures.
22 Dec 2021,·28 mins
How science got here, and where next
As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy have a future?
30 Oct 2025,·31 mins
Insects and mobile phone
Smart phones could become even smarter – thanks to ants, beetles, moths and spiders!
17 Jan 2022,·20 mins
Power and Prejudice
From middle to old age - from power and prejudice to the age of reminiscence
21 May 1998,·26 mins
Memory
Examination into the condition of Alzheimer's disease
15 May 2000,·24 mins
Anaesthesia
What happens to our brains and our consciousness when we’re put to sleep?
24 Jan 2026,·49 mins
Ingenious Omnibus II
Delve into the weird and wonderful world of your genes - with Dr Kat Arney.
31 Dec 2021,·1 min
Series 4
Strontium
Chemist Andrea Sella ends his festive series with fireworks and the element strontium.
27 Dec 2019,·14 mins
Sugar
Three scientists each present their idea for how to reduce sugar intake.
05 Jan 2016,·28 mins
How can we make sport more inclusive?
How can sport protect equal competition whilst enabling all abilities to take part?
11 Jan 2024,·18 mins
