In Our Time: Science
BBC Radio 4Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.
The Evolution of Lungs
Jul 10 • 48m
Lise Meitner
Jun 5 • 57m
Pollination
Apr 3 • 50m
Slime Moulds
Jan 30 • 51m
The Habitability of Planets
Jan 9 • 52m
The Antikythera Mechanism
Dec 12, 2024 • 50m
Wormholes
Oct 24, 2024 • 1h 0m
Bacteriophages
Aug 1, 2024 • 50m
Mercury
May 30, 2024 • 53m
Nikola Tesla
May 2, 2024 • 52m
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
Mar 28, 2024 • 58m
Hormones
Mar 7, 2024 • 50m
Plankton
Nov 2, 2023 • 48m
Albert Einstein
Oct 12, 2023 • 49m
Jupiter
Jul 27, 2023 • 53m
Mitochondria
Jun 29, 2023 • 52m
Linnaeus
May 18, 2023 • 50m
Paul Erdős
Mar 23, 2023 • 51m
Tycho Brahe
Mar 2, 2023 • 53m
Superconductivity
Feb 23, 2023 • 50m
The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876
Dec 22, 2022 • 51m
The Fish-Tetrapod Transition
Nov 17, 2022 • 55m
The Electron
Oct 27, 2022 • 49m
The Death of Stars
Jul 7, 2022 • 58m
Homo erectus
May 12, 2022 • 51m
Seismology
Apr 7, 2022 • 49m
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Mar 4, 2022 • 1m
William and Caroline Herschel
Nov 11, 2021 • 50m
Corals
Oct 28, 2021 • 51m
The Manhattan Project
Oct 7, 2021 • 48m
The Evolution of Crocodiles
Sep 16, 2021 • 53m
Longitude
May 13, 2021 • 50m
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Apr 8, 2021 • 48m
The Late Devonian Extinction
Mar 11, 2021 • 49m
Emilie du Châtelet
Feb 4, 2021 • 49m
Eclipses
Dec 31, 2020 • 50m
Alan Turing
Oct 15, 2020 • 53m
Paul Dirac
Mar 5, 2020 • 50m
The Evolution of Horses
Feb 27, 2020 • 50m
Solar Wind
Jan 23, 2020 • 55m
Hybrids
Oct 31, 2019 • 50m
Dorothy Hodgkin
Oct 3, 2019 • 52m
Kinetic Theory
May 23, 2019 • 51m
The Evolution of Teeth
Apr 11, 2019 • 49m
Pheromones
Feb 21, 2019 • 49m
Aristotle's Biology
Feb 7, 2019 • 50m
Emmy Noether
Jan 24, 2019 • 48m
Venus
Dec 27, 2018 • 50m
Free Radicals
Nov 1, 2018 • 51m
Automata
Sep 20, 2018 • 52m
Echolocation
Jun 21, 2018 • 51m
The Proton
Apr 26, 2018 • 49m
George and Robert Stephenson
Apr 12, 2018 • 50m
Rosalind Franklin
Feb 22, 2018 • 49m
Fungi
Feb 15, 2018 • 48m
Cephalopods
Feb 1, 2018 • 47m
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Nov 30, 2017 • 49m
Feathered Dinosaurs
Oct 26, 2017 • 48m
Bird Migration
Jul 6, 2017 • 51m
Enzymes
Jun 1, 2017 • 48m
Louis Pasteur
May 18, 2017 • 51m
Pauli's Exclusion Principle
Apr 6, 2017 • 48m
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Mar 16, 2017 • 49m
The Kuiper Belt
Mar 2, 2017 • 48m
Maths in the Early Islamic World
Feb 16, 2017 • 49m
Parasitism
Jan 26, 2017 • 45m
Johannes Kepler
Dec 29, 2016 • 48m
John Dalton
Oct 27, 2016 • 45m
Plasma
Oct 13, 2016 • 45m
Zeno's Paradoxes
Sep 22, 2016 • 46m
The Invention of Photography
Jul 7, 2016 • 48m
Penicillin
Jun 9, 2016 • 46m
Euclid's Elements
Apr 28, 2016 • 45m
1816, the Year Without a Summer
Apr 21, 2016 • 45m
The Neutron
Apr 14, 2016 • 45m
Robert Hooke
Feb 18, 2016 • 48m
Chromatography
Feb 4, 2016 • 47m
Saturn
Jan 14, 2016 • 46m
Michael Faraday
Dec 24, 2015 • 45m
Circadian Rhythms
Dec 17, 2015 • 48m
P v NP
Nov 5, 2015 • 45m
Perpetual Motion
Sep 24, 2015 • 45m
Extremophiles
Jun 25, 2015 • 46m
The Science of Glass
May 28, 2015 • 45m
The Earth's Core
Apr 30, 2015 • 46m
The Curies
Mar 26, 2015 • 47m
Dark Matter
Mar 12, 2015 • 45m
The Photon
Feb 12, 2015 • 45m
Behavioural Ecology
Dec 11, 2014 • 45m
Brunel
Nov 13, 2014 • 44m
Nuclear Fusion
Oct 30, 2014 • 46m
e
Sep 25, 2014 • 45m
The Sun
Jul 10, 2014 • 47m
Robert Boyle
Jun 12, 2014 • 46m
Photosynthesis
May 15, 2014 • 46m
States of Matter
Apr 3, 2014 • 47m
The Eye
Feb 27, 2014 • 42m
Social Darwinism
Feb 20, 2014 • 41m
Catastrophism
Jan 30, 2014 • 41m
Complexity
Dec 19, 2013 • 41m
The Microscope
Nov 28, 2013 • 42m
Galen
Oct 10, 2013 • 42m
Exoplanets
Oct 3, 2013 • 42m
Pascal
Sep 19, 2013 • 41m
The Invention of Radio
Jul 4, 2013 • 41m
Relativity
Jun 6, 2013 • 42m
Cosmic Rays
May 16, 2013 • 42m
Water
Mar 28, 2013 • 39m
Absolute Zero
Mar 7, 2013 • 42m
Pitt-Rivers
Feb 28, 2013 • 41m
Comets
Jan 17, 2013 • 42m
Crystallography
Nov 28, 2012 • 41m
Fermat's Last Theorem
Oct 25, 2012 • 42m
The Cell
Sep 13, 2012 • 42m
Game Theory
May 10, 2012 • 41m
Early Geology
Apr 12, 2012 • 42m
The Measurement of Time
Mar 29, 2012 • 41m
Conductors and Semiconductors
Feb 23, 2012 • 41m
The Scientific Method
Jan 26, 2012 • 42m
Macromolecules
Dec 29, 2011 • 42m
The Hippocratic Oath
Sep 15, 2011 • 42m
The Origins of Infectious Disease
Jun 8, 2011 • 41m
The Neutrino
Apr 14, 2011 • 42m
The Age of the Universe
Mar 3, 2011 • 42m
The Nervous System
Feb 10, 2011 • 42m
Random and Pseudorandom
Jan 13, 2011 • 42m
Thomas Edison
Dec 9, 2010 • 42m
Women and Enlightenment Science
Nov 4, 2010 • 42m
Logic
Oct 21, 2010 • 42m
Imaginary Numbers
Sep 23, 2010 • 42m
Pliny's Natural History
Jul 8, 2010 • 42m
Antarctica
Jun 24, 2010 • 42m
The Neanderthals
Jun 17, 2010 • 42m
The Cavendish Family in Science
May 20, 2010 • 42m
The Cool Universe
May 6, 2010 • 42m
The Infant Brain
Mar 4, 2010 • 42m
Mathematics' Unintended Consequences
Feb 11, 2010 • 41m
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4
Jan 7, 2010 • 41m
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3
Jan 6, 2010 • 42m
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2
Jan 5, 2010 • 41m
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1
Jan 4, 2010 • 42m
Pythagoras
Dec 10, 2009 • 41m
Radiation
Nov 12, 2009 • 42m
The Geological Formation of Britain
Oct 22, 2009 • 42m
Calculus
Sep 24, 2009 • 42m
Ediacara Biota
Jul 9, 2009 • 42m
Logical Positivism
Jul 2, 2009 • 42m
The Whale - A History
May 21, 2009 • 42m
The Vacuum of Space
Apr 30, 2009 • 42m
Baconian Science
Apr 2, 2009 • 42m
The Library of Alexandria
Mar 12, 2009 • 42m
The Measurement Problem in Physics
Mar 5, 2009 • 42m
The Observatory at Jaipur
Feb 19, 2009 • 42m
Darwin: Life After Origins
Jan 8, 2009 • 42m
Darwin: On the Origin of Species
Jan 7, 2009 • 42m
Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle
Jan 6, 2009 • 42m
Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin
Jan 5, 2009 • 42m
The Physics of Time
Dec 18, 2008 • 42m
Heat
Dec 4, 2008 • 42m
Neuroscience
Nov 13, 2008 • 41m
Vitalism
Oct 16, 2008 • 42m
Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
Oct 9, 2008 • 42m
The Music of the Spheres
Jun 19, 2008 • 42m
Lysenkoism
Jun 5, 2008 • 42m
Probability
May 29, 2008 • 42m
The Brain
May 8, 2008 • 42m
The Laws of Motion
Apr 3, 2008 • 42m
Ada Lovelace
Mar 6, 2008 • 42m
The Multiverse
Feb 21, 2008 • 41m
Plate Tectonics
Jan 24, 2008 • 42m
The Four Humours
Dec 20, 2007 • 42m
Genetic Mutation
Dec 6, 2007 • 41m
The Fibonacci Sequence
Nov 29, 2007 • 42m
Oxygen
Nov 15, 2007 • 42m
Antimatter
Oct 4, 2007 • 28m
The Permian-Triassic Boundary
Jun 28, 2007 • 42m
Renaissance Astrology
Jun 14, 2007 • 28m
Gravitational Waves
May 17, 2007 • 42m
Symmetry
Apr 19, 2007 • 42m
Anaesthetics
Mar 29, 2007 • 41m
Microbiology
Mar 8, 2007 • 41m
Optics
Mar 1, 2007 • 28m
Popper
Feb 8, 2007 • 42m
Archimedes
Jan 25, 2007 • 42m
The Jesuits
Jan 18, 2007 • 41m
Mars
Jan 11, 2007 • 41m
Indian Mathematics
Dec 14, 2006 • 42m
The Speed of Light
Nov 30, 2006 • 42m
The Poincaré Conjecture
Nov 2, 2006 • 42m
The Needham Question
Oct 19, 2006 • 42m
Humboldt
Sep 28, 2006 • 42m
Galaxies
Jun 29, 2006 • 42m
Carbon
Jun 15, 2006 • 42m
The Heart
Jun 1, 2006 • 42m
Astronomy and Empire
May 4, 2006 • 42m
Immunisation
Apr 20, 2006 • 42m
The Royal Society
Mar 23, 2006 • 42m
Negative Numbers
Mar 9, 2006 • 41m
Human Evolution
Feb 16, 2006 • 28m
Relativism
Jan 19, 2006 • 28m
Prime Numbers
Jan 12, 2006 • 28m
Artificial Intelligence
Dec 8, 2005 • 40m
The Graviton
Nov 24, 2005 • 41m
Asteroids
Nov 3, 2005 • 28m
Mammals
Oct 13, 2005 • 41m
Magnetism
Sep 29, 2005 • 41m
The KT Boundary
Jun 23, 2005 • 42m
Renaissance Maths
Jun 2, 2005 • 42m
Perception and the Senses
Apr 28, 2005 • 28m
Dark Energy
Mar 17, 2005 • 42m
Alchemy
Feb 24, 2005 • 42m
The Cambrian Period
Feb 17, 2005 • 42m
The Mind/Body Problem
Jan 13, 2005 • 42m
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Dec 16, 2004 • 27m
Jung
Dec 2, 2004 • 28m
Higgs Boson
Nov 18, 2004 • 42m
Electrickery
Nov 4, 2004 • 42m
The Origins of Life
Sep 23, 2004 • 28m
Pi
Sep 2, 2004 • 28m
Renaissance Magic
Jun 17, 2004 • 28m
The Planets
May 27, 2004 • 28m
Zero
May 13, 2004 • 42m
Hysteria
Apr 22, 2004 • 28m
Theories of Everything
Mar 25, 2004 • 42m
Dreams
Mar 4, 2004 • 28m
Rutherford
Feb 19, 2004 • 28m
Cryptography
Jan 29, 2004 • 42m
Lamarck and Natural Selection
Dec 24, 2003 • 57m
Ageing the Earth
Nov 20, 2003 • 28m
Infinity
Oct 23, 2003 • 42m
Maxwell
Oct 2, 2003 • 42m
Nature
Jul 10, 2003 • 42m
Vulcanology
Jul 3, 2003 • 42m
The Lunar Society
Jun 5, 2003 • 28m
Memory
May 29, 2003 • 27m
Blood
May 22, 2003 • 41m
The Life of Stars
Mar 27, 2003 • 28m
Meteorology
Mar 6, 2003 • 28m
Chance and Design
Feb 13, 2003 • 28m
The Calendar
Dec 19, 2002 • 41m
Man and Disease
Dec 12, 2002 • 28m
Imagination
Nov 28, 2002 • 28m
Human Nature
Nov 7, 2002 • 42m
The Scientist
Oct 24, 2002 • 28m
Psychoanalysis and Democracy
Jul 11, 2002 • 28m
Drugs
May 23, 2002 • 28m
Chaos Theory
May 16, 2002 • 42m
The Physics of Reality
May 2, 2002 • 28m
Extra Terrestrials
Apr 4, 2002 • 28m
Anatomy
Feb 14, 2002 • 28m
The Universe's Shape
Feb 7, 2002 • 28m
Nuclear Physics
Jan 10, 2002 • 28m
Genetics
Dec 13, 2001 • 28m
Oceanography
Nov 22, 2001 • 28m
The Earth's Origins
Jul 5, 2001 • 28m
Black Holes
Apr 12, 2001 • 28m
Fossils
Mar 22, 2001 • 42m
Quantum Gravity
Feb 22, 2001 • 28m
Imperial Science
Feb 1, 2001 • 28m
Mathematics and Platonism
Jan 11, 2001 • 28m
Psychoanalysis and Literature
Nov 9, 2000 • 42m
Evolutionary Psychology
Nov 2, 2000 • 28m
Laws of Nature
Oct 19, 2000 • 28m
Imagination and Consciousness
Jun 29, 2000 • 42m
Chemical Elements
May 25, 2000 • 28m
Human Origins
Apr 27, 2000 • 28m
The Natural Order
Apr 6, 2000 • 28m
Grand Unified Theory
Feb 24, 2000 • 28m
Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment
Feb 10, 2000 • 28m
Information Technology
Jan 13, 2000 • 27m
Climate Change
Jan 6, 2000 • 27m
Time
Dec 30, 1999 • 28m
Medical Ethics
Dec 16, 1999 • 27m
Consciousness
Nov 25, 1999 • 27m
Genetic Determinism
Sep 23, 1999 • 28m
Pain
Jul 22, 1999 • 28m
Intelligence
Jul 1, 1999 • 28m
The Great Disruption
Jun 17, 1999 • 28m
Memory and Culture
May 27, 1999 • 28m
The Universe's Origins
May 20, 1999 • 28m
Mathematics
May 6, 1999 • 28m
Artificial Intelligence
Apr 29, 1999 • 28m
Evolution
Apr 15, 1999 • 28m
Animal Experiments and Rights
Mar 18, 1999 • 28m
Space in Religion and Science
Feb 18, 1999 • 28m
Language and the Mind
Feb 11, 1999 • 27m
Psychoanalysis and its Legacy
Feb 4, 1999 • 28m
Ageing
Jan 28, 1999 • 27m
Genetic Engineering
Jan 14, 1999 • 27m
Neuroscience in the 20th century
Dec 24, 1998 • 28m
The Brain and Consciousness
Nov 19, 1998 • 27m
Science in the 20th century
Nov 5, 1998 • 28m
Science's Revelations
Oct 29, 1998 • 28m
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