The art of rest – with Claudia Hammond
What is the difference between sleep and rest? What activities to people actually find restful? Why is rest important?Award-winning broadcaster, author and psychology lecturer, Claudia Hammond, joins ...
6 Apr 20211h 22min
Recipe for a Skyscraper – with Roma Agrawal
How high can we build? What are the new technologies that might see our skyscrapers go beyond anything we ever imagined? What creativity and drive is needed to push engineering forward? Structural eng...
30 Mar 20201h 15min
Endometriosis: Myths, Symptoms and Future Treatments - with PhD researcher Magda Mareckova, Dr Krina Zondervan and Dr Christian Becker
Endometriosis is as common as diabetes, yet the disease is poorly understood and not many people have heard about it before. It affects around 10% of women in their reproductive years, and can cause g...
4 Mar 202044min
A Generalist AI - with Expert Panel
How far are we from creating Artificial General Intelligence? Can we build a machine to perform all of the intellectual tasks that a human being can?Reports of the ever-increasing power of AI systems ...
24 Feb 20201h 20min
The Evolution of Truth - with Richard Byrne, Evan Davis and comedian Rachel Wheeley
Why do people lie? Why has 'fake news' become such a global phenomenon in modern public discourse? Bringing together the fields of human evolution and current affairs, Richard Byrne and Evan Davis, to...
27 Jan 20201h 26min
Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering a Brighter Future - with Lord Browne and Vivienne Parry
Why has engineering always been the backbone of civilisation? And why do we enjoy making things? This month, Lord Browne in conversation with Vivienne Parry, explains what engineering is, what it has ...
30 Des 20191h 28min
The Gene Machine - with Venki Ramakrishnan
The ribosome is the mother of all molecules without which nothing lives. This month, the Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan in conversation with Vivienne Parry, tells the story of the race to uncov...
25 Nov 20191h 25min
The Science of Stress – with Joe Herbert, Julie Turner Cobb, and Shane O’Mara
Stress is our natural reaction to physical or emotional pressure, encompassing everything from too much work to being tortured. But what goes on in our bodies and minds to cause stress? And how does s...
28 Okt 20191h 23min
