In Our Time: Science

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss slime mould, a basic organism that grows on logs, cowpats ... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the great unanswered questions in science: how and... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2000-year-old device which transformed our understandi... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tantalising idea that there are shortcuts between dist... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most abundant lifeform on Earth: the viruses that 'eat... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet which is closest to our Sun. We see it as an ev... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) and... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German physicist who, at the age of 23 and while still... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the chemical signals coursing through our bodies t... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny drifting organisms in the oceans that sustain the... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man who, in 1905, produced several papers that were to... more

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, and it’s hard to imagine a world more a... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the power-packs within cells in all complex life on Earth.... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life, ideas and legacy of the pioneering Swedish botan... more

Paul Erdős (1913 – 1996) is one of the most celebrated mathematicians of the 20th century.... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546 – 1601)... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery made in 1911 by the Dutch physicist Heike Ka... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the voyage of HMS Challenger which set out from Portsmouth... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest changes in the history of life on Eart... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an atomic particle that's become inseparable from modernit... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the abrupt transformation of stars after shining brightly ... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of our ancestors, Homo erectus, who thrived on Earth f... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the study of earthquakes. A massive earthquake in 1755 dev... more

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Herschel (1738 – 1822) and his sister Caroline Her... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which informed Charles Darwin's first b... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb in the USA during World War... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable diversity of the animals that dominated lif... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for Longitude while at sea. Following efforts b... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Laplace (1749-1827) who was a giant in the world of mathem... more