Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of longitude and the race to calculate it at sea.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how parents from different species can reproduce
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we know gas molecules move rather than keep still.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how teeth evolved in our toothless ancestors - and why.
A discussion of the chemicals that animals use in order to affect others of their species.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific study of life, originated by Aristotle.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet closest to Earth, sometimes called Earth's twin
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the molecules linked to cell functioning and ageing
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of machines imitating living beings.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how some animals sense their world with sound not sight.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Proton, found in the nuclei of all elements.
