#291PollinationSince plants have to mate and produce offspring while rooted to the spot, they have to be ... more03 Apr 202550 MINS50:1003 Apr 2025
#290Slime MouldsMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss slime mould, a basic organism that grows on logs, cowpats ... more30 Jan 202551 MINS51:3030 Jan 2025
#289The Habitability of PlanetsMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the great unanswered questions in science: how and... more09 Jan 202552 MINS52:5009 Jan 2025
#288The Antikythera MechanismMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2000-year-old device which transformed our understandi... more12 Dec 202450 MINS50:3512 Dec 2024
#287WormholesMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tantalising idea that there are shortcuts between dist... more24 Oct 20241 HR 00 MINS1:00:5624 Oct 2024
#286BacteriophagesMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most abundant lifeform on Earth: the viruses that 'eat... more01 Aug 202450 MINS50:4301 Aug 2024
#285MercuryMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet which is closest to our Sun. We see it as an ev... more30 May 202453 MINS53:4930 May 2024
#284Nikola TeslaMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) and... more02 May 202452 MINS52:5002 May 2024
#283Heisenberg's Uncertainty PrincipleMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German physicist who, at the age of 23 and while still... more28 Mar 202458 MINS58:0228 Mar 2024
#282HormonesMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the chemical signals coursing through our bodies t... more07 Mar 202450 MINS50:1307 Mar 2024
#281PlanktonMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tiny drifting organisms in the oceans that sustain the... more02 Nov 202348 MINS48:4102 Nov 2023