Fountain App
Podcasters
Artists
Resources
Home
Feed
Charts
Wallet
Profile
In Our Time: Science • Listen on Fountain
In Our Time: Science
BBC Radio 4
Show • 293 episodes
Comment
Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
Episodes
Activity
The Evolution of Lungs
Episode • Jul 10
Lise Meitner
Episode • Jun 5
Pollination
Episode • Apr 3
Slime Moulds
Episode • Jan 30
The Habitability of Planets
Episode • Jan 9
The Antikythera Mechanism
Episode • Dec 12, 2024
Wormholes
Episode • Oct 24, 2024
Bacteriophages
Episode • Aug 1, 2024
Mercury
Episode • May 30, 2024
Nikola Tesla
Episode • May 2, 2024
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
Episode • Mar 28, 2024
Hormones
Episode • Mar 7, 2024
Plankton
Episode • Nov 2, 2023
Albert Einstein
Episode • Oct 12, 2023
Jupiter
Episode • Jul 27, 2023
Mitochondria
Episode • Jun 29, 2023
Linnaeus
Episode • May 18, 2023
Paul Erdős
Episode • Mar 23, 2023
Tycho Brahe
Episode • Mar 2, 2023
Superconductivity
Episode • Feb 23, 2023
The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876
Episode • Dec 22, 2022
The Fish-Tetrapod Transition
Episode • Nov 17, 2022
The Electron
Episode • Oct 27, 2022
The Death of Stars
Episode • Jul 7, 2022
Homo erectus
Episode • May 12, 2022
Seismology
Episode • Apr 7, 2022
In Our Time is now first on BBC Sounds
Episode • Mar 4, 2022
William and Caroline Herschel
Episode • Nov 11, 2021
Corals
Episode • Oct 28, 2021
The Manhattan Project
Episode • Oct 7, 2021
The Evolution of Crocodiles
Episode • Sep 16, 2021
Longitude
Episode • May 13, 2021
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Episode • Apr 8, 2021
The Late Devonian Extinction
Episode • Mar 11, 2021
Emilie du Châtelet
Episode • Feb 4, 2021
Eclipses
Episode • Dec 31, 2020
Alan Turing
Episode • Oct 15, 2020
Paul Dirac
Episode • Mar 5, 2020
The Evolution of Horses
Episode • Feb 27, 2020
Solar Wind
Episode • Jan 23, 2020
Hybrids
Episode • Oct 31, 2019
Dorothy Hodgkin
Episode • Oct 3, 2019
Kinetic Theory
Episode • May 23, 2019
The Evolution of Teeth
Episode • Apr 11, 2019
Pheromones
Episode • Feb 21, 2019
Aristotle's Biology
Episode • Feb 7, 2019
Emmy Noether
Episode • Jan 24, 2019
Venus
Episode • Dec 27, 2018
Free Radicals
Episode • Nov 1, 2018
Automata
Episode • Sep 20, 2018
Echolocation
Episode • Jun 21, 2018
The Proton
Episode • Apr 26, 2018
George and Robert Stephenson
Episode • Apr 12, 2018
Rosalind Franklin
Episode • Feb 22, 2018
Fungi
Episode • Feb 15, 2018
Cephalopods
Episode • Feb 1, 2018
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Episode • Nov 30, 2017
Feathered Dinosaurs
Episode • Oct 26, 2017
Bird Migration
Episode • Jul 6, 2017
Enzymes
Episode • Jun 1, 2017
Louis Pasteur
Episode • May 18, 2017
Pauli's Exclusion Principle
Episode • Apr 6, 2017
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Episode • Mar 16, 2017
The Kuiper Belt
Episode • Mar 2, 2017
Maths in the Early Islamic World
Episode • Feb 16, 2017
Parasitism
Episode • Jan 26, 2017
Johannes Kepler
Episode • Dec 29, 2016
John Dalton
Episode • Oct 27, 2016
Plasma
Episode • Oct 13, 2016
Zeno's Paradoxes
Episode • Sep 22, 2016
The Invention of Photography
Episode • Jul 7, 2016
Penicillin
Episode • Jun 9, 2016
Euclid's Elements
Episode • Apr 28, 2016
1816, the Year Without a Summer
Episode • Apr 21, 2016
The Neutron
Episode • Apr 14, 2016
Robert Hooke
Episode • Feb 18, 2016
Chromatography
Episode • Feb 4, 2016
Saturn
Episode • Jan 14, 2016
Michael Faraday
Episode • Dec 24, 2015
Circadian Rhythms
Episode • Dec 17, 2015
P v NP
Episode • Nov 5, 2015
Perpetual Motion
Episode • Sep 24, 2015
Extremophiles
Episode • Jun 25, 2015
The Science of Glass
Episode • May 28, 2015
The Earth's Core
Episode • Apr 30, 2015
The Curies
Episode • Mar 26, 2015
Dark Matter
Episode • Mar 12, 2015
The Photon
Episode • Feb 12, 2015
Behavioural Ecology
Episode • Dec 11, 2014
Brunel
Episode • Nov 13, 2014
Nuclear Fusion
Episode • Oct 30, 2014
e
Episode • Sep 25, 2014
The Sun
Episode • Jul 10, 2014
Robert Boyle
Episode • Jun 12, 2014
Photosynthesis
Episode • May 15, 2014
States of Matter
Episode • Apr 3, 2014
The Eye
Episode • Feb 27, 2014
Social Darwinism
Episode • Feb 20, 2014
Catastrophism
Episode • Jan 30, 2014
Complexity
Episode • Dec 19, 2013
The Microscope
Episode • Nov 28, 2013
Galen
Episode • Oct 10, 2013
Exoplanets
Episode • Oct 3, 2013
Pascal
Episode • Sep 19, 2013
The Invention of Radio
Episode • Jul 4, 2013
Relativity
Episode • Jun 6, 2013
Cosmic Rays
Episode • May 16, 2013
Water
Episode • Mar 28, 2013
Absolute Zero
Episode • Mar 7, 2013
Pitt-Rivers
Episode • Feb 28, 2013
Comets
Episode • Jan 17, 2013
Crystallography
Episode • Nov 28, 2012
Fermat's Last Theorem
Episode • Oct 25, 2012
The Cell
Episode • Sep 13, 2012
Game Theory
Episode • May 10, 2012
Early Geology
Episode • Apr 12, 2012
The Measurement of Time
Episode • Mar 29, 2012
Conductors and Semiconductors
Episode • Feb 23, 2012
The Scientific Method
Episode • Jan 26, 2012
Macromolecules
Episode • Dec 29, 2011
The Hippocratic Oath
Episode • Sep 15, 2011
The Origins of Infectious Disease
Episode • Jun 8, 2011
The Neutrino
Episode • Apr 14, 2011
The Age of the Universe
Episode • Mar 3, 2011
The Nervous System
Episode • Feb 10, 2011
Random and Pseudorandom
Episode • Jan 13, 2011
Thomas Edison
Episode • Dec 9, 2010
Women and Enlightenment Science
Episode • Nov 4, 2010
Logic
Episode • Oct 21, 2010
Imaginary Numbers
Episode • Sep 23, 2010
Pliny's Natural History
Episode • Jul 8, 2010
Antarctica
Episode • Jun 24, 2010
The Neanderthals
Episode • Jun 17, 2010
The Cavendish Family in Science
Episode • May 20, 2010
The Cool Universe
Episode • May 6, 2010
The Infant Brain
Episode • Mar 4, 2010
Mathematics' Unintended Consequences
Episode • Feb 11, 2010
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4
Episode • Jan 7, 2010
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3
Episode • Jan 6, 2010
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2
Episode • Jan 5, 2010
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1
Episode • Jan 4, 2010
Pythagoras
Episode • Dec 10, 2009
Radiation
Episode • Nov 12, 2009
The Geological Formation of Britain
Episode • Oct 22, 2009
Calculus
Episode • Sep 24, 2009
Ediacara Biota
Episode • Jul 9, 2009
Logical Positivism
Episode • Jul 2, 2009
The Whale - A History
Episode • May 21, 2009
The Vacuum of Space
Episode • Apr 30, 2009
Baconian Science
Episode • Apr 2, 2009
The Library of Alexandria
Episode • Mar 12, 2009
The Measurement Problem in Physics
Episode • Mar 5, 2009
The Observatory at Jaipur
Episode • Feb 19, 2009
Darwin: Life After Origins
Episode • Jan 8, 2009
Darwin: On the Origin of Species
Episode • Jan 7, 2009
Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle
Episode • Jan 6, 2009
Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin
Episode • Jan 5, 2009
The Physics of Time
Episode • Dec 18, 2008
Heat
Episode • Dec 4, 2008
Neuroscience
Episode • Nov 13, 2008
Vitalism
Episode • Oct 16, 2008
Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
Episode • Oct 9, 2008
The Music of the Spheres
Episode • Jun 19, 2008
Lysenkoism
Episode • Jun 5, 2008
Probability
Episode • May 29, 2008
The Brain
Episode • May 8, 2008
The Laws of Motion
Episode • Apr 3, 2008
Ada Lovelace
Episode • Mar 6, 2008
The Multiverse
Episode • Feb 21, 2008
Plate Tectonics
Episode • Jan 24, 2008
The Four Humours
Episode • Dec 20, 2007
Genetic Mutation
Episode • Dec 6, 2007
The Fibonacci Sequence
Episode • Nov 29, 2007
Oxygen
Episode • Nov 15, 2007
Antimatter
Episode • Oct 4, 2007
The Permian-Triassic Boundary
Episode • Jun 28, 2007
Renaissance Astrology
Episode • Jun 14, 2007
Gravitational Waves
Episode • May 17, 2007
Symmetry
Episode • Apr 19, 2007
Anaesthetics
Episode • Mar 29, 2007
Microbiology
Episode • Mar 8, 2007
Optics
Episode • Mar 1, 2007
Popper
Episode • Feb 8, 2007
Archimedes
Episode • Jan 25, 2007
The Jesuits
Episode • Jan 18, 2007
Mars
Episode • Jan 11, 2007
Indian Mathematics
Episode • Dec 14, 2006
The Speed of Light
Episode • Nov 30, 2006
The Poincaré Conjecture
Episode • Nov 2, 2006
The Needham Question
Episode • Oct 19, 2006
Humboldt
Episode • Sep 28, 2006
Galaxies
Episode • Jun 29, 2006
Carbon
Episode • Jun 15, 2006
The Heart
Episode • Jun 1, 2006
Astronomy and Empire
Episode • May 4, 2006
Immunisation
Episode • Apr 20, 2006
The Royal Society
Episode • Mar 23, 2006
Negative Numbers
Episode • Mar 9, 2006
Human Evolution
Episode • Feb 16, 2006
Relativism
Episode • Jan 19, 2006
Prime Numbers
Episode • Jan 12, 2006
Artificial Intelligence
Episode • Dec 8, 2005
The Graviton
Episode • Nov 24, 2005
Asteroids
Episode • Nov 3, 2005
Mammals
Episode • Oct 13, 2005
Magnetism
Episode • Sep 29, 2005
The KT Boundary
Episode • Jun 23, 2005
Renaissance Maths
Episode • Jun 2, 2005
Perception and the Senses
Episode • Apr 28, 2005
Dark Energy
Episode • Mar 17, 2005
Alchemy
Episode • Feb 24, 2005
The Cambrian Period
Episode • Feb 17, 2005
The Mind/Body Problem
Episode • Jan 13, 2005
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Episode • Dec 16, 2004
Jung
Episode • Dec 2, 2004
Higgs Boson
Episode • Nov 18, 2004
Electrickery
Episode • Nov 4, 2004
The Origins of Life
Episode • Sep 23, 2004
Pi
Episode • Sep 2, 2004
Renaissance Magic
Episode • Jun 17, 2004
The Planets
Episode • May 27, 2004
Zero
Episode • May 13, 2004
Hysteria
Episode • Apr 22, 2004
Theories of Everything
Episode • Mar 25, 2004
Dreams
Episode • Mar 4, 2004
Rutherford
Episode • Feb 19, 2004
Cryptography
Episode • Jan 29, 2004
Lamarck and Natural Selection
Episode • Dec 24, 2003
Ageing the Earth
Episode • Nov 20, 2003
Infinity
Episode • Oct 23, 2003
Maxwell
Episode • Oct 2, 2003
Nature
Episode • Jul 10, 2003
Vulcanology
Episode • Jul 3, 2003
The Lunar Society
Episode • Jun 5, 2003
Memory
Episode • May 29, 2003
Blood
Episode • May 22, 2003
The Life of Stars
Episode • Mar 27, 2003
Meteorology
Episode • Mar 6, 2003
Chance and Design
Episode • Feb 13, 2003
The Calendar
Episode • Dec 19, 2002
Man and Disease
Episode • Dec 12, 2002
Imagination
Episode • Nov 28, 2002
Human Nature
Episode • Nov 7, 2002
The Scientist
Episode • Oct 24, 2002
Psychoanalysis and Democracy
Episode • Jul 11, 2002
Drugs
Episode • May 23, 2002
Chaos Theory
Episode • May 16, 2002
The Physics of Reality
Episode • May 2, 2002
Extra Terrestrials
Episode • Apr 4, 2002
Anatomy
Episode • Feb 14, 2002
The Universe's Shape
Episode • Feb 7, 2002
Nuclear Physics
Episode • Jan 10, 2002
Genetics
Episode • Dec 13, 2001
Oceanography
Episode • Nov 22, 2001
The Earth's Origins
Episode • Jul 5, 2001
Black Holes
Episode • Apr 12, 2001
Fossils
Episode • Mar 22, 2001
Quantum Gravity
Episode • Feb 22, 2001
Imperial Science
Episode • Feb 1, 2001
Mathematics and Platonism
Episode • Jan 11, 2001
Psychoanalysis and Literature
Episode • Nov 9, 2000
Evolutionary Psychology
Episode • Nov 2, 2000
Laws of Nature
Episode • Oct 19, 2000
Imagination and Consciousness
Episode • Jun 29, 2000
Chemical Elements
Episode • May 25, 2000
Human Origins
Episode • Apr 27, 2000
The Natural Order
Episode • Apr 6, 2000
Grand Unified Theory
Episode • Feb 24, 2000
Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment
Episode • Feb 10, 2000
Information Technology
Episode • Jan 13, 2000
Climate Change
Episode • Jan 6, 2000
Time
Episode • Dec 30, 1999
Medical Ethics
Episode • Dec 16, 1999
Consciousness
Episode • Nov 25, 1999
Genetic Determinism
Episode • Sep 23, 1999
Pain
Episode • Jul 22, 1999
Intelligence
Episode • Jul 1, 1999
The Great Disruption
Episode • Jun 17, 1999
Memory and Culture
Episode • May 27, 1999
The Universe's Origins
Episode • May 20, 1999
Mathematics
Episode • May 6, 1999
Artificial Intelligence
Episode • Apr 29, 1999
Evolution
Episode • Apr 15, 1999
Animal Experiments and Rights
Episode • Mar 18, 1999
Space in Religion and Science
Episode • Feb 18, 1999
Language and the Mind
Episode • Feb 11, 1999
Psychoanalysis and its Legacy
Episode • Feb 4, 1999
Ageing
Episode • Jan 28, 1999
Genetic Engineering
Episode • Jan 14, 1999
Neuroscience in the 20th century
Episode • Dec 24, 1998
The Brain and Consciousness
Episode • Nov 19, 1998
Science in the 20th century
Episode • Nov 5, 1998
Science's Revelations
Episode • Oct 29, 1998
Latest activity
Switch to the Fountain App
Not now
Open in Fountain
