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  • 28ish Days Later - Day One: Power

    April 1, 2022 · 15 min

    Discover more episodes in the series by searching for 28ish Days Later on BBC Sounds. What do you really know about the menstrual cycle? India Rakusen explores the whole bloody story, discovering facts that could change your life. Periods…

  • Political Animals: Sex-Switching Fish and Non-Binary Brains - 3/3

    March 3, 2022 · 29 min

    Zoologist Lucy Cooke is on a mission: to break down the 'sexist stereotype' she believes has permeated our understanding of the natural world. In Political Animals, she sets out to prove that females of the species can be just as fiesty…

  • Political Animals: Mole-Rat Queens and Genital Power - 2/3

    March 3, 2022 · 29 min

    Zoologist Lucy Cooke is on a mission: to break down the 'sexist stereotype' she believes has permeated our understanding of the natural world. In Political Animals, she sets out to prove that females of the species can be just as fiesty…

  • Political Animals: Sex, Monkeys and the 'Coy Female' Myth - 1/3

    February 24, 2022 · 29 min

    Zoologist Lucy Cooke is on a mission: to break down the 'sexist stereotype' she believes has permeated our understanding of the natural world... In Political Animals, she sets out to prove that females of the species can be just as fiesty…

  • Wild Inside: The Ocean Sunfish

    December 22, 2021 · 29 min

    Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin of Mola mola the world's largest bony fish to unravel this bizarrely shaped predator's ability to swim to a huge range of depths. Produced by Adrian Washbourne. First broadcast on Tuesday 21…

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  • Wild Inside:The Burmese Python

    December 17, 2021 · 29 min

    Ben Garrod and Jess French delve deep inside the predatory Burmese python to examine its extraordinary body plan that enables it to catch, constrict and consume huge prey whole. Presented by Prof Ben Garrod and Dr Jess French and produced…

  • Wild Inside: Jungle Royalty - The Jaguar

    December 7, 2021 · 29 min

    Wild Inside embarks on something we hardly ever witness – a look inside some of nature’s most wondrous animals. Its a rare chance to delve deep into some enigmatic and very different wild animals – from a reptile, to a mammal to a fish…

  • The Life Scientific at 10: What does it take to be a scientist?

    October 12, 2021 · 57 min

    How damaging is the stereotype of white males in white coats? Do scientists think differently? Or do the qualities we associate with being a nerd do them a disservice? Is specialism the best way to solve 21st century problems when so many…

  • The Sir Patrick Vallance interview

    October 12, 2021 · 37 min

    As Chief Scientific Advisor to the government during a pandemic, Sir Patrick Vallance's calm, clear summaries of the state of our scientific understanding of the virus were welcomed by many. But what was going on behind the scenes? In this…

  • The Men in the White Coats

    October 12, 2021 · 57 min

    Prof Andrea Sella on the shifting image of the scientist in popular culture, from Victor Frankenstein to Iron Man via victorious post-war boffinry and megalomanical Bond villainry. The monster unleashed by Mary Shelley in her 1818 tale of…

  • Celebrating the life of Sir Clive Sinclair: Computers at home

    September 17, 2021 · 14 min

    This week in Scientifically… we celebrate the life of Sir Clive Sinclair with this episode from the series Computing Britain that looks at how 'micro computers' invaded the home in the 1980s. In this episode, Hannah Fry discovers how the…

  • Jim Al-Khalili's Life Scientific

    September 3, 2021 · 35 min

    In an ideal (quantum) world, Jim Al-Khalili would be interviewing himself about his life as a scientist but since the production team can’t access a parallel universe, Adam Rutherford is stepping in to ask Jim questions in front of an…

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About the show

Home of the best science programmes from BBC Radio 4, from the ingenuity behind everyday objects to the biggest questions facing our planet. Released weekly, this podcast is introduced by Dr. Alex Lathbridge.