Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Heisenberg's key role at the outset of quantum mechanics
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the chemical signals that control the ways our bodies work
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2024.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny lifeforms that sustain so much life on earth.
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Einstein's astonishing impact on theoretical physics.
Published on Thursday, 12th October 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest planet in our solar system.
Published on Thursday, 27th July 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.
Published on Thursday, 29th June 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botanist.
Published on Thursday, 18th May 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the prolific Hungarian mathematician.
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 16th-century astronomer, renowned for his accuracy.
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2023.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great global Victorian voyage of scientific discovery.
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth.
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the atomic particle that's proved a gateway to modernity.
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the ends of stars can lead to new planets and new life
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the study of earthquakes helps reveal Earth's secrets.
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2022.
New episodes will now be available first on Sounds for 28 days before other podcast apps.
Published on Friday, 4th March 2022.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siblings at the forefront of 18th-century astronomy
Published on Thursday, 11th November 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which form the now-threatened reefs.
Published on Thursday, 28th October 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2
Published on Thursday, 7th October 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs.
Published on Thursday, 16th September 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of longitude and the race to calculate it at sea.
Published on Thursday, 13th May 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.
Published on Thursday, 8th April 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.
Published on Thursday, 11th March 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
Published on Thursday, 4th February 2021.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
Published on Thursday, 15th October 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
Published on Thursday, 5th March 2020.
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.
Published on Thursday, 23rd January 2020.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how parents from different species can reproduce
Published on Thursday, 31st October 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Published on Thursday, 3rd October 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.
Published on Thursday, 23rd May 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2019.
A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.
Published on Thursday, 21st February 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.
Published on Thursday, 7th February 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.
Published on Thursday, 24th January 2019.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
Published on Thursday, 27th December 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the molecules linked to cell functioning and ageing
Published on Thursday, 1st November 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
Published on Thursday, 20th September 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
Published on Thursday, 21st June 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Proton, found in the nuclei of all elements.
Published on Thursday, 26th April 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.
Published on Thursday, 12th April 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin.
Published on Thursday, 22nd February 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss fungi.
Published on Thursday, 15th February 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the biology of squid, octopus, cuttlefish and nautilus.
Published on Thursday, 1st February 2018.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Gauss, one of the great mathematicians.
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss which dinosaurs were feathered, and their links to birds.
Published on Thursday, 26th October 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how birds navigate and the risks and benefits of migration
Published on Thursday, 6th July 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss enzymes, the catalysts essential for life.
Published on Thursday, 1st June 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Louis Pasteur, known as a founder of microbiology.
Published on Thursday, 18th May 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wolfgang Pauli and the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the highest global temperatures in the last 65m years.
Published on Thursday, 16th March 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the icy Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune, home to Pluto.
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the flourishing of maths in the Islamic world from C8th.
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Parasitism, where one species gains at the cost of another
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2017.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss astronomer Johannes Kepler.
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss scientist John Dalton.
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter.
Published on Thursday, 13th October 2016.
Does an arrow in flight move and could Achilles overtake a tortoise? Not according to Zeno
Published on Thursday, 22nd September 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of penicillin.
Published on Thursday, 9th June 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Elements of Euclid.
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron.
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 17th-century scientist Robert Hooke.
Published on Thursday, 18th February 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins, development and uses of chromatography.
Published on Thursday, 4th February 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet Saturn.
Published on Thursday, 14th January 2016.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Michael Faraday.
Published on Thursday, 24th December 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss circadian rhythms.
Published on Thursday, 17th December 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematical problem of P versus NP.
Published on Thursday, 5th November 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss perpetual motion.
Published on Thursday, 24th September 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss extremophiles and astrobiology.
Published on Thursday, 25th June 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the puzzling science of glass.
Published on Thursday, 28th May 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Earth's core.
Published on Thursday, 30th April 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the scientific achievements of the Curie family.
Published on Thursday, 26th March 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss dark matter, the 'missing mass' of the universe.
Published on Thursday, 12th March 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the photon, the fundamental particle of light.
Published on Thursday, 12th February 2015.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss behavioural ecology.
Published on Thursday, 11th December 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Published on Thursday, 13th November 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and science of nuclear fusion.
Published on Thursday, 30th October 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Euler's number, e.
Published on Thursday, 25th September 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the science of the sun, source of all our energy.
Published on Thursday, 10th July 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the pioneering scientist Robert Boyle.
Published on Thursday, 12th June 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss photosynthesis.
Published on Thursday, 15th May 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the states of matter, from solids to plasmas.
Published on Thursday, 3rd April 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the eye and how it works.
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Social Darwinism.
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the geological theory of Catastrophism.
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2014.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss complexity theory.
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the development of the microscope.
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Roman physician and medical theorist Galen.
Published on Thursday, 10th October 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.
Published on Thursday, 3rd October 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the French thinker Blaise Pascal.
Published on Thursday, 19th September 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the invention of radio.
Published on Thursday, 4th July 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Einstein's theory of relativity.
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss cosmic rays.
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss water, one of the most remarkable of all molecules.
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss absolute zero, the lowest possible temperature.
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian archaeologist Augustus Pitt-Rivers.
Published on Thursday, 28th February 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss comets, the 'dirty snowballs' of the solar system.
Published on Thursday, 17th January 2013.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and achievements of crystallography.
Published on Wednesday, 28th November 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Fermat's Last Theorem.
Published on Thursday, 25th October 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the biology and origins of the cell.
Published on Thursday, 13th September 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the mathematical study of decision-making
Published on Thursday, 10th May 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the emergence of geology as a scientific discipline.
Published on Thursday, 12th April 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the measurement of time.
Published on Thursday, 29th March 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of electrical conduction.
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Scientific Method.
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2012.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the giant molecules that underpin all life.
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Hippocratic Oath.
Published on Thursday, 15th September 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins of infectious disease.
Published on Wednesday, 8th June 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutrino, the so-called 'ghost particle'.
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the age of the Universe.
Published on Thursday, 3rd March 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the nervous system.
Published on Thursday, 10th February 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss mathematical randomness and pseudorandomness.
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2011.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the American technological pioneer Thomas Edison.
Published on Thursday, 9th December 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women in Enlightenment science.
Published on Thursday, 4th November 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of logic.
Published on Thursday, 21st October 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss imaginary numbers.
Published on Thursday, 23rd September 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pliny's Natural History, one of the first encyclopedias.
Published on Thursday, 8th July 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the Antarctic and its exploration.
Published on Thursday, 24th June 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution and characteristics of the Neanderthals.
Published on Thursday, 17th June 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the scientific achievements of the Cavendish family.
Published on Thursday, 20th May 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cool Universe.
Published on Thursday, 6th May 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what new research reveals about the infant brain.
Published on Thursday, 4th March 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the unintended consequences of mathematical discoveries.
Published on Thursday, 11th February 2010.
The more discreet role played by the Society in the 20th century.
Published on Thursday, 7th January 2010.
The 19th century blooms scientifically with numerous alternative, specialist societies.
Published on Wednesday, 6th January 2010.
How Newton tested the lines between government-funded research and public access.
Published on Tuesday, 5th January 2010.
Melvyn Bragg travels to Oxford, where the young Christopher Wren and friends experimented.
Published on Monday, 4th January 2010.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans.
Published on Thursday, 10th December 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of radiation, from radio waves to gamma rays
Published on Thursday, 12th November 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the geological formation of Britain.
Published on Thursday, 22nd October 2009.
The dispute between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented calculus.
Published on Thursday, 24th September 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ediacara Biota.
Published on Thursday, 9th July 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the radical philosophy of the Vienna Circle.
Published on Thursday, 2nd July 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolutionary history of the whale.
Published on Thursday, 21st May 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vacuum of Space.
Published on Thursday, 30th April 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Jacobean thinker Francis Bacon and Baconian Science.
Published on Thursday, 2nd April 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library of Alexandria.
Published on Thursday, 12th March 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the measurement problem in physics.
Published on Thursday, 5th March 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the observatory at Jaipur.
Published on Thursday, 19th February 2009.
Melvyn visits Darwin's home at Down House in Kent.
Published on Thursday, 8th January 2009.
How Darwin was eventually persuaded to publish On the Origin of Species in November 1859.
Published on Wednesday, 7th January 2009.
How Darwin's work during the Beagle expedition influenced his theories.
Published on Tuesday, 6th January 2009.
Darwin's early life in Shropshire and his three years at Cambridge.
Published on Monday, 5th January 2009.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of time.
Published on Thursday, 18th December 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of scientific ideas about Heat.
Published on Thursday, 4th December 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines neuroscience, the relationship between the mind and the brain.
Published on Thursday, 13th November 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th and 19th century quest for the spark of life.
Published on Thursday, 16th October 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work.
Published on Thursday, 9th October 2008.
Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient astrological idea of the music of the spheres.
Published on Thursday, 19th June 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines the destructive career of the Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko.
Published on Thursday, 5th June 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability.
Published on Thursday, 29th May 2008.
The history of cultural, medical, artistic and philosophical ideas about the human brain.
Published on Thursday, 8th May 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion.
Published on Thursday, 3rd April 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ada Lovelace - the Victorian ‘enchantress of numbers’.
Published on Thursday, 6th March 2008.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Multiverse.
Published on Thursday, 21st February 2008.
Melvyn Bragg examines plate tectonics, a theory that transformed our idea of the earth.
Published on Thursday, 24th January 2008.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the four humours in medical history.
Published on Thursday, 20th December 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses mutation in genetics and evolution.
Published on Thursday, 6th December 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the mathematical and cultural mysteries of the Fibonacci Sequence.
Published on Thursday, 29th November 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier.
Published on Thursday, 15th November 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses Antimatter in particle physics and cosmology.
Published on Thursday, 4th October 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Permian-Triassic boundary in evolutionary history.
Published on Thursday, 28th June 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Renaissance Astrology.
Published on Thursday, 14th June 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of Gravitational Waves.
Published on Thursday, 17th May 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the idea of symmetry in art and nature.
Published on Thursday, 19th April 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of anaesthetics.
Published on Thursday, 29th March 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of microbiology, the study of microscopic life.
Published on Thursday, 8th March 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the science of optics
Published on Thursday, 1st March 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Anglo-Austrian philosopher Karl Popper.
Published on Thursday, 8th February 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Greek mathematician Archimedes and his famous cry of “eureka!”
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Jesuits, “the school masters of Europe”.
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2007.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the planet Mars, a source of endless fascination in human history
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2007.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 5000 year long story of Indian Maths.
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speed of light, lynchpin of Einstein’s universe.
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a puzzle that may explain the shape of the universe.
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Needham Question; why Europe, not China made modern technology.
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander Von Humboldt.
Published on Thursday, 28th September 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the creation and destruction of galaxies.
Published on Thursday, 29th June 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss carbon, which forms the basis of all organic life.
Published on Thursday, 15th June 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the heart.
Published on Thursday, 1st June 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines the relationship between astronomy and British Imperial expansion.
Published on Thursday, 4th May 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for immunisation and its impact on society.
Published on Thursday, 20th April 2006.
The history of the formation of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy.
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss negative numbers, a history of mystery and suspicion.
Published on Thursday, 9th March 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the six million year old story of human evolution.
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2006.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss relativism; a philosophy with no absolute truths.
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2006.
Melvyn Bragg examines prime numbers and their mysterious role in the universe of numbers.
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2006.
Melvyn Bragg investigates artificial intelligence; can a computer imitate the human mind?
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for the Graviton particle in physics.
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the unique properties of asteroids.
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of the mammals which began 65 million years ago.
Published on Thursday, 13th October 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and mysterious force of magnetism.
Published on Thursday, 29th September 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the KT Boundary and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Published on Thursday, 23rd June 2005.
Melvyn Bragg explores Renaissance Mathematics, when maths moved from an art to a science.
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines perception: how the brain reacts to the mass of data crowding it.
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines recently discovered 'dark energy' and its effect on the universe.
Published on Thursday, 17th March 2005.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alchemy, the ancient science of transformations.
Published on Thursday, 24th February 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Cambrian period, when there was an explosion of life on Earth.
Published on Thursday, 17th February 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of thought about the mind/body problem in philosophy.
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2005.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Second Law of Thermodynamics from steam to the Big Bang.
Published on Thursday, 16th December 2004.
The extraordinary mind and theories of the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
Published on Thursday, 2nd December 2004.
The history of the quest to find the Higgs Boson, also known as the 'God Particle'.
Published on Thursday, 18th November 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dawn of the age of electricity.
Published on Thursday, 4th November 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss when and how life on earth originated.
Published on Thursday, 23rd September 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the longest and most detailed number in nature.
Published on Thursday, 2nd September 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Renaissance obsession with Magic.
Published on Thursday, 17th June 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines our knowledge of the planets in both our and other solar systems.
Published on Thursday, 27th May 2004.
Melvyn Bragg examines the number between 1 and -1, once denounced as the devil's work.
Published on Thursday, 13th May 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how emotional experiences can become physical symptoms.
Published on Thursday, 22nd April 2004.
Melvyn Bragg explores the 30 year search to solve all the biggest questions in physics.
Published on Thursday, 25th March 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the function and interpretation of dreams.
Published on Thursday, 4th March 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear science.
Published on Thursday, 19th February 2004.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and history of codes.
Published on Thursday, 29th January 2004.
Melvyn Bragg discusses Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 18th century French precursor to Darwin.
Published on Wednesday, 24th December 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines the age of the Earth and its division into four great Eons.
Published on Thursday, 20th November 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the nature and existence of mathematical infinity.
Published on Thursday, 23rd October 2003.
The work and legacy of the often overlooked 19th century scientist James Clerk Maxwell.
Published on Thursday, 2nd October 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to define humanity’s part in the natural world.
Published on Thursday, 10th July 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the formation and eruption of volcanoes.
Published on Thursday, 3rd July 2003.
Melvyn Bragg examines an 18th century group of pioneering scientists and engineers.
Published on Thursday, 5th June 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the function and significance of memory.
Published on Thursday, 29th May 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss blood, from medical progress to the link to the divine.
Published on Thursday, 22nd May 2003.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life cycle of stars.
Published on Thursday, 27th March 2003.
Melvyn Bragg explores the fascinating and mystifying science of meteorology.
Published on Thursday, 6th March 2003.
Melvyn Bragg explores the question and theories of a grand design in the universe.
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2003.
Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient origins of our Gregorian calendar.
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines how humans have understood and fought disease throughout history.
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2002.
Melvyn Bragg investigates the creatives forces of the imagination.
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether our natures are innate or defined by unbringing.
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2002.
Melvyn Bragg explores the origin of the concept and the historical role of the scientist.
Published on Thursday, 24th October 2002.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of politics on psychoanalysis.
Published on Thursday, 11th July 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines the role of narcotics and stimulants in the history of medicine.
Published on Thursday, 23rd May 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines how Chaos Theory has affected our understanding of the universe.
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to reconcile Quantum Theory and classical physics.
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2002.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our chances of ever discovering life on another planet.
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2002.
The 2000 year old history of mankind's quest to understand the human body.
Published on Thursday, 14th February 2002.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shape, size and topology of the universe.
Published on Thursday, 7th February 2002.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 20th century development of nuclear physics as a science.
Published on Thursday, 10th January 2002.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the development of the science of genetics.
Published on Thursday, 13th December 2001.
Melvyn Bragg explores what science has revealed, and we still don't know, about the sea.
Published on Thursday, 22nd November 2001.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins of the Earth.
Published on Thursday, 5th July 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Black Holes, the ghosts of massive stars.
Published on Thursday, 12th April 2001.
The significance of fossils in history and the impact of techniques in understanding them.
Published on Thursday, 22nd March 2001.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 20th century attempts to understand the Quantum world.
Published on Thursday, 22nd February 2001.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether agriculture or trade drove 19th century British imperialism.
Published on Thursday, 1st February 2001.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether mathematics is a process of invention or of discovery.
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2001.
Melvyn Bragg assesses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature.
Published on Thursday, 9th November 2000.
Melvyn Bragg explores the basis and context for the ideas of Evolutionary Psychology.
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2000.
Melvyn Bragg considers whether what is true in physics is true in all areas of existence.
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2000.
Melvyn Bragg investigates how neuroscience can explain the enigmas of consciousness.
Published on Thursday, 29th June 2000.
Melvyn Bragg explores chemistry's ongoing mission to understand irreducible substances.
Published on Thursday, 25th May 2000.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution of the human species.
Published on Thursday, 27th April 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines the science of taxonomy; the classification of the natural world.
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2000.
The 20th century pursuit in physics for the ultimate theory of everything.
Published on Thursday, 24th February 2000.
Melvyn Bragg assesses the scientific legacy of the 18th century German poet Goethe.
Published on Thursday, 10th February 2000.
Melvyn Bragg explores the social and economic consequences of the information revolution.
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines predictions and solutions for global warming and rising sea levels.
Published on Thursday, 6th January 2000.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of mankind’s attempt to understand the nature of time.
Published on Thursday, 30th December 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the technological advances and ethics of modern medicine.
Published on Thursday, 16th December 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines why ideas about consciousness preoccupy philosophers and scientists.
Published on Thursday, 25th November 1999.
Melvyn Bragg explores the part genes play in our personalities.
Published on Thursday, 23rd September 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and our mechanisms of coping with pain.
Published on Thursday, 22nd July 1999.
Melvyn Bragg explores the origins, manifestations and possibilities of intelligence.
Published on Thursday, 1st July 1999.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the 20th century shift from industrial to information society.
Published on Thursday, 17th June 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines how our collective and individual ways of remembering have changed.
Published on Thursday, 27th May 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of what we know about the origins of the universe.
Published on Thursday, 20th May 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of mathematics in relation to other sciences.
Published on Thursday, 6th May 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are near to achieving the thinking, feeling computer.
Published on Thursday, 29th April 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the future of gene therapy and advances in evolutionary biology.
Published on Thursday, 15th April 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of animals in humankind’s search for knowledge.
Published on Thursday, 18th March 1999.
Melvyn Bragg looks at how cyberspace has introduced a new concept of space in our world.
Published on Thursday, 18th February 1999.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether the formation of language is innate or cultural.
Published on Thursday, 11th February 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the relevance of psychoanalysis at the end of the 20th century.
Published on Thursday, 4th February 1999.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the ethical, economic and biological implications of living longer.
Published on Thursday, 28th January 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the implications of the developments in genetic engineering.
Published on Thursday, 14th January 1999.
Melvyn Bragg examines the little we know and what we don’t yet know about the brain.
Published on Thursday, 24th December 1998.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our knowledge of memory and the functioning of the brain.
Published on Thursday, 19th November 1998.
Melvyn Bragg examines how perceptions of science have changed in the 20th century.
Published on Thursday, 5th November 1998.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether science has ruined our sense of poetic wonder at the world.
Published on Thursday, 29th October 1998.
