Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
The more discreet role played by the Society in the 20th century.
Melvyn Bragg explores the origin of the concept and the historical role of the scientist.
Melvyn Bragg examines the Second Law of Thermodynamics from steam to the Big Bang.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speed of light, lynchpin of Einstein鈥檚 universe.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of what we know about the origins of the universe.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shape, size and topology of the universe.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vacuum of Space.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolutionary history of the whale.
Melvyn Bragg explores the 30 year search to solve all the biggest questions in physics.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the American technological pioneer Thomas Edison.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of mankind鈥檚 attempt to understand the nature of time.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th and 19th century quest for the spark of life.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the formation and eruption of volcanoes.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss water, one of the most remarkable of all molecules.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women in Enlightenment science.
Melvyn Bragg examines the number between 1 and -1, once denounced as the devil's work.
Melvyn Bragg explores the basis and context for the ideas of Evolutionary Psychology.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether mathematics is a process of invention or of discovery.
Melvyn Bragg examines whether agriculture or trade drove 19th century British imperialism.
Melvyn Bragg examines the history of thought about the mind/body problem in philosophy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss relativism; a philosophy with no absolute truths.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the unintended consequences of mathematical discoveries.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss mathematical randomness and pseudorandomness.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the nervous system.
