BBC Radio Podcasts from Science Stories

Alexis Carrel and the immortal chicken heart

Philip Ball tells the tale of Alexis Carrel's immortal chicken heart.

Philip Ball's story is of Ibn al-Haytham, the first scientist, and how we see.

Naomi Alderman on how Lady Mary Montagu used her own child to prove smallpox inoculation.

Philip Ball's tale is of Kepler's Snowflakes, a New Year's gift and of crystallography.

Naomi Alderman's story is of Lucretius, sheep and atoms

Philip Ball tells the story of Arthur Eddington's confirmation of general relativity.

Naomi Alderman tells the story of Mary Anning, who discovered many important fossils.

Naomi Alderman's story is of Hypatia - the mathematician murdered by a mob in Alexandria.

Philip Ball goes back to the 17th century to tell the story of Descartes' 'daughter'.

Philip Ball tells the story of German chemist Friedrich Wöhler's creation of urea.

Philip Ball reveals the real Cyrano de Bergerac and his 17th-century spaceship.

What happened when Einstein decided to fix the fridge?

Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method.

The riddle of the 19th century French meteorite that carried a secret for 100 years.

The magical world of Conelis Drebbel, inventor of the first submarine in 1621.