Episode 2
Ben asks if modern medicine is making the most of this strange phenomenon.
25 Aug 2008,·30 mins
Writer Chris Yates explores the spirit of carp fishing at a Wiltshire lake in midsummer.
15 Oct 2020,·28 mins
5. A Lungful
Simon Watt wonders if we could upgrade the human body, with help from the animal kingdom.
17 Aug 2021,·14 mins
Meet the engineers and scientists at MIT who are shaping our future
10 Sep 2005,·22 mins
1. The Fan Dance
Horatio Clare discovers how infantry soldiers are shaped by the Brecon Beacons' landscape
09 Jul 2014,·30 mins
Goal 17: Partnerships
Seventeen-year-old Houssam hopes Lebanese people can work together to solve its problems
19 May 2021,·26 mins
The search for an elusive watery wonder in the aftermath of Sri Lanka's civil war.
28 Jul 2014,·30 mins
A farming community recalls the UK's worst ever foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in 2001.
27 Jul 2021,·37 mins
Deal With It
Prof Jonathan Ball concludes his survey of the new disruptive biotechnologies.
24 Aug 2018,·15 mins
Becoming Invisible
Writer Philip Ball meets the physicists who are making real life invisibility cloaks.
10 Jun 2016,·12 mins
Fixing the Future
Mark Miodownik looks at how repair and repair-ability fits into our sustainable future.
11 May 2021,·28 mins
Ep 6 | Rùm
Coinneach agus Hamish a’ cuimhneachadh le toileachas air turas a ghabh iad gu ruige Rùm.
28 Oct 2021,·21 mins
Douglas Alexander's essential guide to COP26 from his home city of Glasgow.
19 Oct 2021,·28 mins
Omnibus 4
Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on how art and science have inspired each other.
18 Oct 2019,·57 mins
Poet Paul Farley considers how we warn future generations about our buried nuclear waste.
07 Sep 2021,·28 mins
An exciting and revelatory soundscape following life between the tides on a sandy coast.
05 Nov 2007,·30 mins
A fascinating insight into one of Nature's greatest cheats.
05 Apr 2011,·30 mins
An intimate tale of bird-human interdependence.
08 Mar 2022,·28 mins
Arthur Stanley Eddington and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
The row that exploded between Eddington and Chandrasekhar over the death of stars.
29 Jul 2004,·15 mins
Taming The Wild
The history of animal domestication, starting with the wild bull
22 Mar 1994,·13 mins
Series 2
Artificial Intelligence
Jonathan visits Edinburgh University for a crash course in AI.
28 Mar 2007,·30 mins
The future
How will we wean ourselves off fossil fuels?
01 Jan 2022,·23 mins
Deep Sea Mining
Is mining the deep ocean the solution to the world's growing demand for valuable metals?
23 Jul 2014,·28 mins
Mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing, and his role in the invention of the computer.
12 Jun 2012,·28 mins
Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury
An interview with the founder of a field hospital which became a healthcare system
26 Jul 2000,·24 mins
Mark Miodownik explores the prospect of a new generation of highly poweful batteries.
09 Apr 2009,·30 mins
Reverend Richard Coles explores the science of sacred sounds.
17 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Episode 4
Richard Dawkins talks to Craig Venter about the creation of synthetic life.
14 Jul 2010,·30 mins
How DNA analysis reveals that chimpanzees are even closer to humans than we thought
24 May 2000,·24 mins
Beef
An examination of the worldwide beef industry
18 Dec 2003,·22 mins
