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Anthony Fauci on a medical career navigating pandemics and presidents
Dr Anthony Fauci discusses his career spanning the worlds of medicine and politics.
29 Apr 2025,·30 mins
Series 23
Love Neurons
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain get giddy on the chemistry of love.
26 Apr 2025,·28 mins
What would cuts to Nasa mean for space science?
Reaction to White House proposals to cut funding for Nasa and a future asteroid fly past
24 Apr 2025,·29 mins
Can we feed everyone?
We ask leading agricultural experts about global food security
25 Apr 2025,·31 mins
Weighing the world's forests
The space mission to better understand how forests affect climate change on Earth.
29 Apr 2025,·26 mins
Wet market SARS CoV-2 origins revisited
Scientists find yet more data from early Covid to suggest zoonotic cross-over as origin.
24 Apr 2025,·35 mins
Are dams still worth it?
Dams transformed Thailand’s economy. Now, a warming world puts that progress in jeopardy.
27 Apr 2025,·26 mins
8. The Terminator
Musk fears a 'Terminator future', where robots destroy humans. So why is he creating AI?
08 Apr 2025,·28 mins
Unstoppable: Kura Paul-Burke
Kura Paul-Burke is combining Māori knowledge with marine science to save our ocean
28 Apr 2025,·26 mins
Kenya believe it?
The Unexpected Elements team visits Nairobi, Kenya.
25 Apr 2025,·49 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
WHO agrees to a pandemic treaty
WHO members have agreed to a draft treaty intended to make the world safer from pandemics
23 Apr 2025,·26 mins
Cancer Research in Wales
Adam Walton explores cancer research in Wales.
29 Apr 2025,·29 mins
Apollo 13
S2 Ep.07 Resurrection
"I still have nightmares about this." Can the crew survive the dangers of re-entry?
10 Jun 2020,·60 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
Omnibus: 1980s onwards
From the ZX Spectrum to the dot com bubble, Hannah Fry looks at our computing history.
17 Mar 2017,·58 mins
Memory
Examination into the condition of Alzheimer's disease
15 May 2000,·24 mins
How Music Can Hold and Heal Us
We explore how music—especially lullabies—heals like medicine.
13 Mar 2025,·25 mins
Can AI Save Darth Vader?
Aleks and Kevin ask if the Dark Lord can live forever with an AI voice.
12 Feb 2025,·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
Update from the Digital Human Team
The Digital Human is pausing to focus on what everyone's talking about - AI
19 Feb 2024,·1 min
Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Insects and mobile phone
Smart phones could become even smarter – thanks to ants, beetles, moths and spiders!
17 Jan 2022,·20 mins
Doing the Maths
First broadcast in 2006. The mathematics of infinity are discussed
27 Sep 2006,·22 mins
8. I Sung of Chaos
Is Silicon Valley’s radical experiment to connect the world about to implode?
18 Mar 2024,·32 mins
A Wonderful Catastrophe
How can we cope with the challenges of digital communication?
12 Jul 2024,·14 mins
The Hunting of The Quark
First broadcast in 1997. Inside protons and neutrons lurks the holy grail of physics
10 Dec 1997,·13 mins
Nicolas Bourbaki
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
25 Jun 2010,·15 mins
Series 4
Strontium
Chemist Andrea Sella ends his festive series with fireworks and the element strontium.
27 Dec 2019,·14 mins
Life after Life
First broadcast in 1999. Do you believe in life after death?
15 Jun 1999,·12 mins
