Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins, development and uses of chromatography.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet Saturn.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Michael Faraday.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss circadian rhythms.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss perpetual motion.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematical problem of P versus NP.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss extremophiles and astrobiology.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the puzzling science of glass.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Earth's core.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the scientific achievements of the Curie family.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss dark matter, the 'missing mass' of the universe.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss behavioural ecology.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the photon, the fundamental particle of light.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and science of nuclear fusion.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Euler's number, e.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the science of the sun, source of all our energy.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the pioneering scientist Robert Boyle.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss photosynthesis.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the states of matter, from solids to plasmas.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the eye and how it works.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Social Darwinism.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the geological theory of Catastrophism.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss complexity theory.