Discovery Podcast
Explorations in the world of science.
Episodes to download
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Lazy guide to exercise
Mon 8 May 2023
What is the least amount of exercise you can do to still stay healthy?
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The impossible number
Mon 1 May 2023
The Curious Cases team get to grips with the very real uses of imaginary numbers
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The mind-numbing medicine
Mon 24 Apr 2023
The Curious Cases team investigate the magical properties of anaesthetics.
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The resurrection quest
Mon 17 Apr 2023
The Curious Cases team ask if it's possible - or desirable - to bring back extinct species
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The puzzle of the pyramids
Mon 10 Apr 2023
The Curious Cases team discovers how Egypt's pyramids were really built.
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Our Microbes and Our Health
Sat 25 Mar 2023
The astonishing and mysterious world of the human microbiome.
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Judith Bunbury: Unearthing the secrets of Ancient Egypt
Mon 20 Mar 2023
Dr Judith Bunbury on enriching our knowledge of ancient Egypt and beyond
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The Life Scientific: Clifford Johnson
Mon 13 Mar 2023
New approaches to quantum questions and using science in films.
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The Life Scientific: Rebecca Kilner
Mon 6 Mar 2023
Jim al-Khalili hears how insects helped Rebecca Kilner solve evolutionary mysteries
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The Life Scientific: Tim Lamont
Mon 27 Feb 2023
Jim Al-Khalili meets Tim Lamont, a young ecologist making waves restoring coral reefs.
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Bad Blood: Newgenics
Mon 20 Feb 2023
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
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Bad Blood: The curse of Mendel
Mon 13 Feb 2023
How Gregor Mendel discovered the gene, an insight which inspired eugenics from the 1900s
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Bad Blood: Rassenhygiene
Mon 6 Feb 2023
The mass sterilisation of those deemed 鈥榰nfit鈥� by the Nazis in the name of eugenics
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Bad Blood: Birth controlled
Mon 30 Jan 2023
The women forcibly sterilised against their will and the campaign for birth control
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Bad Blood: You will not replace us
Mon 23 Jan 2023
The rise of the idea that immigrants will out-breed and replace the dominant white 'race'
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Bad Blood: You've got good genes
Mon 16 Jan 2023
The origins of Eugenics and the idea that we could breed ourselves to a brighter future
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Preparing for the next pandemic
Christmas Eve 2022
Scientists warn it鈥檚 not if, but when, another pandemic will hit us
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Wild Inside: The Alpaca
Mon 12 Dec 2022
Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the secrets to success of the alpaca.
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Wild inside: The Harbour Porpoise
Mon 5 Dec 2022
Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of the enigmatic harbour porpoise
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Wild inside: The Cheetah
Mon 21 Nov 2022
The amazing internal anatomy of the cheetah and the secrets to survival
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The puzzle of the plasma doughnut
Mon 14 Nov 2022
鈥淗ow does fusion work, and how can we do it safely on earth?鈥� asks Les Walker
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The Riddle of Red-Eyes and Runny-Noses
Mon 7 Nov 2022
Why do things like pet hair, peanuts and pollen can get our immune systems so riled up?
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The problem of infinite Pi(e)
Mon 31 Oct 2022
How did we discover Pi? How do we know that it鈥檚 infinite and never repeats? asks Alex
Space
The eclipses, spacecraft and astronauts changing our view of the Universe
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
A pair of scientific sleuths answer your perplexing questions. Ask them anything!
