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28 minutes
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Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford University, is obsessed with biological clocks. He talks to Jim Al-Khalili about how light controls our wellbeing. Show more
28 minutes
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Prof Mark Lythgoe runs the largest medical imaging facility in Europe. He talks to Jim Al-Khalili about coming to science late and why he enjoys collaborations with artists. Show more
28 minutes
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As the NASA robot Curiosity starts to analyse rocks from the Martian surface, Jim Al-Khalili and Prof Monica Grady discuss whether the evidence for life on Mars will ever add up. Show more
28 minutes
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Should babies under two watch TV? Developmental psychologist Annette Karmiloff-Smith discusses with Jim Al-Khalili how a TV screen can be better for a baby than a book. Show more
28 minutes
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Jim Al-Khalili talks to breast cancer pioneer Valerie Beral about her Million Women study and why she thinks a so-called 'vaccine' should be developed to prevent breast cancer. Show more
28 minutes
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Jim Al-Khalili talks to Sue Ion about working in the nuclear industry in the dark decades post-Chernobyl, and why nuclear power has to be part of our energy mix for the future. Show more
28 minutes
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Prof Dame Nancy Rothwell on her ground-breaking work on obesity, her discovery of an experimental treatment for stroke, and her leadership of the UK's largest university. Show more
28 minutes
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Can we live healthier lives in old age? Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Dame Linda Partridge, who studies the genetics of ageing, with the hope that one day she can slow it down. Show more
28 minutes
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Lord John Krebs left academia to run the Food Standards Agency. He tells Jim al-Khalili about life in the public sphere and dealing with foot and mouth disease, and badgers and TB. Show more
28 minutes
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Is it more reckless to eat a bacon sandwich every day or go skydiving? Jim Al-Khalili and David Spiegelhalter discuss risk, uncertainty and the real odds behind everyday dangers. Show more
28 minutes
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Jim Al-Khalili talks to Professor Liz Stokoe about her research analysing real-life conversations from first dates, neighbours and police interviews with suspected criminals. Show more
28 minutes
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Life on earth has gone through a series of mass extinctions. Mike Benton talks about his fascination with ancient life on the planet and his work on the Bristol Dinosaur Project.
28 minutes
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Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University, talks to Jim Al-Khalili about his research and being an author of books on maths and science and of science fiction. Show more
28 minutes
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Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Prof Sophie Scott about how brain imaging is revealing secrets of human speech and why laughter is such an important human social tool. Show more
28 minutes
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Australian geneticist Jenny Graves discusses her life pursuing sex genes in her country's weird but wonderful fauna, the end of men and singing to her students in lectures.
28 minutes
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Prof Dame Wendy Hall, one of the pioneers of the world wide web and hypermedia, talks to Jim Al Khalili about a career spent at the forefront of web and digital media developments. Show more
30 minutes
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Jim Al-Khalili talks to environmental scientist John Lawton, who describes his studies of birds, dragonflies and bracken and his ground-breaking experiments in the Ecotron. Show more
28 minutes
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Jim Al-Khalili talks to CERN physicist Tejinder Virdee about the search for the elusive Higgs boson, or 'God particle', at the Large Hadron Collider. Show more
28 minutes
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Jim Al-Khalili talks to Angela Gallop, the scientist who provided the vital forensic evidence in the recent retrial for the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Show more
28 minutes
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Jim Al-Khalili talks to James Lovelock about elocution lessons, defrosting hamsters and his grand theory of planet Earth, Gaia. Show more
