Listen to a selection of clips from recent and upcoming programmes.
Lisa Jardine and Simon Schaffer on the Victorians regard for the scientifically enhanced.
Charlie Paton has developed an innovative system of seawater cooled greenhouses.
Roger Law meets Adam Lowe - the man who can recreate any object in perfect detail.
Left-handers die on average nine years earlier than right-handed people. Or do they?
Loaf on Mars? NASA are trying to overcome 'food fatigue' on future Mars missions.
Lisa Jardine and Elizabeth Bruton discuss a link between 1930s entertainment and radar.
Zoe Barker explains how cows can be connected to the internet to monitor their health.
The survival expert recounts how he narrowly avoided being eaten by a saltwater crocodile.
Prof Jean Twenge explains why women should treat some fertility statistics with caution.
Dr Pedro Viegas shows us a tiny pneumatic drill used to excavate fragile dinosaur bones.
Wildlife cameraman Doug Allan talks about his close encounter with an Arctic walrus.
Prof Sophie Scott tells Jim Al-Khalili why other people鈥檚 laughter is contagious.
Jim Al-Khalili asks Professor Jenny Graves why the male-defining chromosome may disappear.
Jim Al-Khalili on the award of the Nobel Prize for Physics to Professor Peter Higgs
The Indian clay fridge that uses water rather than electricity to keep food cool.
The new president of the RSPB Miranda Krestovnikoff
Dr Marek Kukula introduces the original Six Pip Masterclock at the Greenwich Observatory.
Commander Chris Hadfield discusses his new book, An Astronaut's Guide to Life.
Dr Anderson explains happens when the light-dark cycle is taken out of the equation.
David Spiegelhalter explains how life is generally safer but gets more risky with age.
Psychologist Gustav Kuhn uses magic to show just how limited our conscious experience is.
In 鈥淪how Us Your Instrument鈥, Dr Glen Gibson, from Reading University, shows us Robogut.
Neuroscientist Beau Lotto says our eyes are 'like the keyboard is to the computer'.
Ann VanderMeer and Ronald Mallett discuss how close we are to time-travel.