大象传媒 Radio 4 - In Our Time, Science

Science Podcast

Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.

Updated: occasionally

Episodes available: indefinitely

Pain

Thu 22 Jul 1999

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and our mechanisms of coping with pain.
Intelligence

Thu 1 Jul 1999

Melvyn Bragg explores the origins, manifestations and possibilities of intelligence.
The Great Disruption

Thu 17 Jun 1999

Melvyn Bragg looks at the 20th century shift from industrial to information society.
Memory and Culture

Thu 27 May 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines how our collective and individual ways of remembering have changed.
The Universe's Origins

Thu 20 May 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines the history of what we know about the origins of the universe.
Mathematics

Thu 6 May 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of mathematics in relation to other sciences.
Artificial Intelligence

Thu 29 Apr 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are near to achieving the thinking, feeling computer.
Evolution

Thu 15 Apr 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines the future of gene therapy and advances in evolutionary biology.
Animal Experiments and Rights

Thu 18 Mar 1999

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of animals in humankind鈥檚 search for knowledge.
Space in Religion and Science

Thu 18 Feb 1999

Melvyn Bragg looks at how cyberspace has introduced a new concept of space in our world.
Language and the Mind

Thu 11 Feb 1999

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether the formation of language is innate or cultural.
Psychoanalysis and its Legacy

Thu 4 Feb 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines the relevance of psychoanalysis at the end of the 20th century.
Ageing

Thu 28 Jan 1999

Melvyn Bragg looks at the ethical, economic and biological implications of living longer.
Genetic Engineering

Thu 14 Jan 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines the implications of the developments in genetic engineering.
Neuroscience in the 20th century

Christmas Eve 1998

Melvyn Bragg examines the little we know and what we don鈥檛 yet know about the brain.
The Brain and Consciousness

Thu 19 Nov 1998

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our knowledge of memory and the functioning of the brain.
Science in the 20th century

Thu 5 Nov 1998

Melvyn Bragg examines how perceptions of science have changed in the 20th century.
Science's Revelations

Thu 29 Oct 1998

Melvyn Bragg examines whether science has ruined our sense of poetic wonder at the world.