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Introducing Rare Earth
Tom Heap introduces Rare Earth, a programme exploring major stories about our environment.
19 Jan 2024,·1 min
Is my dentist scamming me?
Mona visits two different dentists, and they give her two wildly different diagnoses
30 Jun 2022,·24 mins
28ish Days Later - Day One: Power
India Rakusen and guests introduce you to anatomy of the womb.
01 Apr 2022,·15 mins
Introducing Talc Tales
Is there asbestos in make-up?
29 Jul 2024,·1 min
Space Flight
Reusable rockets, a space station beyond the moon - what is the future of space flight?
13 Jul 2019,·49 mins
Aye-Aye
One of the weirdest –looking creatures on earth has both mesmerised and terrified us.
29 Nov 2019,·28 mins
Born Different
Adam Rutherford asks what the genetics of intelligence could mean for education.
13 May 2014,·28 mins
01/04/2022
Gabriella Coleman investigates one of the most misunderstood cultures of the modern world
01 Apr 2022,·57 mins
Underground Fungi and the Market Economy
How do the underground trade deals between fungi and plants mirror our own market economy?
02 Aug 2024,·14 mins
Aberystwyth Promenade
Relax to the sounds of Aberystwyth Promenade. Recorded on a crisp day in November, 2023
18 Dec 2023,·25 mins
Water
First broadcast in 1998. The physics of water are explained by teachers and scientists
28 Aug 1998,·13 mins
10. Zombie Deer
A new animal madness emerges in North America as history repeats.
23 Oct 2023,·15 mins
Humpback Whale Migration
First broadcast in 2001. The whales travel from the Atlantic to Caribbean breeding waters
14 Mar 2001,·13 mins
The Mattressphere
Beds are the places we withdraw to, away from currents of society and community.
28 Oct 2011,·15 mins
Episode 2
Ben asks if modern medicine is making the most of this strange phenomenon.
25 Aug 2008,·30 mins
Episode 5
With Chris Watson, Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss identify birds in farmyards.
19 Aug 2011,·15 mins
HIV/AIDS The Facts
A series of programmes about the spread, symptoms and treatment of HIV/AIDS
31 Dec 2003,·50 mins
Series 9
The Fen Raft Spider
Chris Watson joins arachnologist Helen Smith in a quest to record the fen raft spider.
13 Jul 2016,·28 mins
Omnibus Edition
A celebration of the first moon landing and the Welsh people who played vital roles.
22 Dec 2019,·60 mins
A Further Five Numbers
1729 - The first taxicab number
1729 is the smallest number you can write as the sum of two cubes, in two different ways.
20 Sep 2005,·14 mins
Leaving Africa
How we overcame oceans and icy landscapes as we migrated
28 Oct 1999,·14 mins
The Tower of Babel
Aleks Krotoski explores how today's digital world is a reverse Tower of Babel.
10 Apr 2015,·15 mins
Deeply Human Series 2
Sleep
Is insomnia really a problem of modern life?
07 May 2022,·23 mins
How to Survive in Space
How to Survive in Space: Into Deep Space
Kevin Fong escapes earth’s gravity to examine the challenges on the body
31 Dec 2015,·26 mins
Medicines For Older People
A discussion of the medical problems older people face around the world
19 Jul 2000,·13 mins
COP26: Your climate questions answered!
Ahead of the critical climate summit, we put your questions to the experts.
19 Oct 2021,·62 mins
On the Origin of the Species
Geoff Watts looks back on the 150 years since Darwin's Origin of Species was published.
26 Nov 2009,·30 mins
Birds, Bees and Business - Why Nature Matters (With The Wildlife Trusts and Landsec)
Deborah's barefoot walk, The Wildlife Trusts and one of the country's biggest landlords
14 Apr 2023,·46 mins
Episode 3
Professor Devi Sridhar investigates the impact of Covid on the practice of science.
22 Jul 2022,·28 mins
Our Interconnected Planet
Tim Hayward examines the earth’s past, present and future through microbial goggles.
01 Oct 2023,·28 mins
