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Series 23
Colossal Creatures
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain attempt to design the biggest creature that's ever lived
07 Jun 2025,·28 mins
What’s that background hum I hear?
We explore the science behind hums – phenomena of persistent, low noise
06 Jun 2025,·28 mins
Can science save our oceans?
Inside Science heads to the One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, .
05 Jun 2025,·28 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,·30 mins
How Music Can Hold and Heal Us
We explore how music—especially lullabies—heals like medicine.
13 Mar 2025,·25 mins
Potential fungal 'Agroterror'?
What is Fusarium graminearum and why were scientists allegedly smuggling it into the US?
05 Jun 2025,·44 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
What Do I Do if AI Gets Me Wrong?
What can you do if an AI is making stuff up about you? Aleks and Kevin find out.
04 Jun 2025,·28 mins
Gaming-inspired science
The Nintendo Switch 2 has sent us on a supersonic spin into gaming-related science
06 Jun 2025,·49 mins
Exercise and immunotherapy improving cancer outcomes
The impact exercise and a new immunotherapy drug regime is having for cancer patients.
04 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
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
8. The Terminator
Musk fears a 'Terminator future', where robots destroy humans. So why is he creating AI?
08 Apr 2025,·28 mins
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
Data and me
Protecting your personal data when a company gets into financial difficulty.
03 Jun 2025,·26 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
Global Health and Disease
Adam Walton delves into three books exploring global health and disease.
04 Jun 2025,·29 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
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
Good Foods Guide 2: 12
First broadcast in 2001. A survey of foods used in celebrations around the world
09 Mar 2001,·13 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
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
8. I Sung of Chaos
Is Silicon Valley’s radical experiment to connect the world about to implode?
18 Mar 2024,·32 mins
Glue
History and science of glue from Ancient Egypt to the Post-it note
07 Feb 1996,·13 mins
Water
First broadcast in 1998. The physics of water are explained by teachers and scientists
28 Aug 1998,·13 mins
Microwaves
Amit Katwala and Charlotte Stavrou power up the microwave and find out what's cooking.
21 Sep 2023,·24 mins
Memory
Examination into the condition of Alzheimer's disease
15 May 2000,·24 mins
