Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
Melvyn Bragg explores the fascinating and mystifying science of meteorology.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the six million year old story of human evolution.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work.
Melvyn Bragg examines the 20th century development of nuclear physics as a science.
Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to define humanity鈥檚 part in the natural world.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and history of codes.
Melvyn Bragg examines the relevance of psychoanalysis at the end of the 20th century.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the science of optics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cool Universe.
Melvyn Bragg examines plate tectonics, a theory that transformed our idea of the earth.
Melvyn Bragg considers whether what is true in physics is true in all areas of existence.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the idea of symmetry in art and nature.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian archaeologist Augustus Pitt-Rivers.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ediacara Biota.
Melvyn Bragg examines perception: how the brain reacts to the mass of data crowding it.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the geological formation of Britain.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for the Graviton particle in physics.
Melvyn Bragg looks at the 20th century shift from industrial to information society.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the heart.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Hippocratic Oath.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what new research reveals about the infant brain.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the invention of radio.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Jesuits, 鈥渢he school masters of Europe鈥�.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the KT Boundary and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
