Science Podcast
Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
Episodes to download
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Drugs
Thu 23 May 2002
Melvyn Bragg examines the role of narcotics and stimulants in the history of medicine.
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Chaos Theory
Thu 16 May 2002
Melvyn Bragg examines how Chaos Theory has affected our understanding of the universe.
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The Physics of Reality
Thu 2 May 2002
Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to reconcile Quantum Theory and classical physics.
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Extra Terrestrials
Thu 4 Apr 2002
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our chances of ever discovering life on another planet.
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The Universe's Shape
Thu 7 Feb 2002
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shape, size and topology of the universe.
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Nuclear Physics
Thu 10 Jan 2002
Melvyn Bragg examines the 20th century development of nuclear physics as a science.
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Genetics
Thu 13 Dec 2001
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the development of the science of genetics.
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Oceanography
Thu 22 Nov 2001
Melvyn Bragg explores what science has revealed, and we still don't know, about the sea.
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Black Holes
Thu 12 Apr 2001
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Black Holes, the ghosts of massive stars.
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Fossils
Thu 22 Mar 2001
The significance of fossils in history and the impact of techniques in understanding them.
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Quantum Gravity
Thu 22 Feb 2001
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 20th century attempts to understand the Quantum world.
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Imperial Science
Thu 1 Feb 2001
Melvyn Bragg examines whether agriculture or trade drove 19th century British imperialism.
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Mathematics and Platonism
Thu 11 Jan 2001
Melvyn Bragg examines whether mathematics is a process of invention or of discovery.
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Psychoanalysis and Literature
Thu 9 Nov 2000
Melvyn Bragg assesses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature.
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Evolutionary Psychology
Thu 2 Nov 2000
Melvyn Bragg explores the basis and context for the ideas of Evolutionary Psychology.
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Laws of Nature
Thu 19 Oct 2000
Melvyn Bragg considers whether what is true in physics is true in all areas of existence.
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Imagination and Consciousness
Thu 29 Jun 2000
Melvyn Bragg investigates how neuroscience can explain the enigmas of consciousness.
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Chemical Elements
Thu 25 May 2000
Melvyn Bragg explores chemistry's ongoing mission to understand irreducible substances.
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The Natural Order
Thu 6 Apr 2000
Melvyn Bragg examines the science of taxonomy; the classification of the natural world.
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Grand Unified Theory
Thu 24 Feb 2000
The 20th century pursuit in physics for the ultimate theory of everything.
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Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment
Thu 10 Feb 2000
Melvyn Bragg assesses the scientific legacy of the 18th century German poet Goethe.
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Information Technology
Thu 13 Jan 2000
Melvyn Bragg explores the social and economic consequences of the information revolution.
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Climate Change
Thu 6 Jan 2000
Melvyn Bragg examines predictions and solutions for global warming and rising sea levels.
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Time
Thu 30 Dec 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of mankind鈥檚 attempt to understand the nature of time.
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Medical Ethics
Thu 16 Dec 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines the technological advances and ethics of modern medicine.
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Consciousness
Thu 25 Nov 1999
Melvyn Bragg examines why ideas about consciousness preoccupy philosophers and scientists.
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