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Series 23
Clowns in Spacetime
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain set off on a wild ride through spacetime.
14 Jun 2025,·29 mins
Was there an idyllic time before carnivores?
Was there ever a time when life on earth was peaceful? No predators, no prey, just vibes?
13 Jun 2025,·26 mins
What science is the UK government funding?
The government sets out spending plans on five years of science. Where will the money go?
12 Jun 2025,·30 mins
Defuse and diffuse
World War II bombs were defused in Cologne, , so we’re exploring diffusion science
13 Jun 2025,·49 mins
The first solar polar pictures
ESA’s Solar Orbiter camera probe begins raising its orbit towards the sun’s poles
12 Jun 2025,·34 mins
Dame Pratibha Gai on training atoms to do what we want
Pratibha Gai on her microscope that brought chemical reactions into sharp focus.
10 Jun 2025,·28 mins
Mpox surging in Sierra Leone
As mpox cases rise in Sierra Leone we check-in on how the outbreak is progressing.
11 Jun 2025,·26 mins
Is China getting AI right?
Aleks and Kevin ask whose AI development ideology will win: China or the US?
11 Jun 2025,·29 mins
China's booming EV industry
In China, electric cars ed for almost half of all car sales last year.
10 Jun 2025,·26 mins
How does heat affect our health?
Why is it so hard to understand the effects a warming world has on our health?
03 Jun 2025,·49 mins
8. The Terminator
Musk fears a 'Terminator future', where robots destroy humans. So why is he creating AI?
08 Apr 2025,·28 mins
Could the oceans help us save our planet?
David Attenborough is urging the world to fix our oceans. Might that fix the climate too?
08 Jun 2025,·22 mins
Gwen Adshead - Four Questions about Violence
Can we change violent minds?
In her final Reith Lecture, Dr Gwen Adshead asks if we can change violent minds.
17 Dec 2024,·57 mins
Celebrating Merthyr Tydfil
The Merthyr born or based scientists at the forefront of amazing research.
Apollo 13
S2 Ep.07 Resurrection
"I still have nightmares about this." Can the crew survive the dangers of re-entry?
08 Jun 2020,·60 mins
3. Anywhere
Nick Baker with more programmes about how technology has changed our physical world.
03 Mar 2021,·60 mins
24 May 2025,·49 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
How Music Can Hold and Heal Us
We explore how music—especially lullabies—heals like medicine.
13 Mar 2025,·25 mins
Series 4
Strontium
Chemist Andrea Sella ends his festive series with fireworks and the element strontium.
27 Dec 2019,·14 mins
Nicolas Bourbaki
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
25 Jun 2010,·15 mins
Is my dentist scamming me?
Mona visits two different dentists, and they give her two wildly different diagnoses
30 Jun 2022,·24 mins
Favourite Numbers
What's a mathematician's favourite number?
17 Jul 1998,·14 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
A Wonderful Catastrophe
How can we cope with the challenges of digital communication?
12 Jul 2024,·14 mins
Omnibus: 1980s onwards
From the ZX Spectrum to the dot com bubble, Hannah Fry looks at our computing history.
17 Mar 2017,·58 mins
8. I Sung of Chaos
Is Silicon Valley’s radical experiment to connect the world about to implode?
18 Mar 2024,·32 mins
Neurosis
The essence of neurosis, is an irrational connection between cause and effect
22 Jun 1995,·4 mins
Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Doing the Maths
First broadcast in 2006. The mathematics of infinity are discussed
27 Sep 2006,·22 mins
