Jolyon Jenkins investigates reports that people with severe dementia, or who haven't spoken for years, can sit up and have lucid conversations just before they die. Can it be true? Show more
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Many animals can navigate by sensing the earth's magnetic field. Not humans though. But might we have evolved the sense but forgotten how to access it? Jolyon Jenkins investigates Show more
We haven't found any aliens yet, but just using statistical techniques, we can make some pretty good guesses about what they'll be like if we do. The answers may surprise you. Show more
"Memory athletes" compete to see who can remember the most random numbers. Everyone thought we were at the limits of the possible - until some teenage North Korean girls turned up Show more
Increasingly, astronomers are finding things that they can't explain. Should they risk their careers and suggest that aliens could be the answer? Jolyon Jenkins investigates Show more
Out of the Ordinary
Digital death - what happens to your online stuff after you've gone?
28 minutes
First broadcast:Available for over a year
Who do you want to read your old emails when you die? Are the dead entitled to privacy?
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Jolyon Jenkins meets those who think the sick can be cured through the power of prayer. Could there possibly be anything in it? And what of those who are trying to raise the dead? Show more
Who do you want to read your old emails when you die? Are the dead entitled to privacy? Jolyon Jenkins reports on the increasingly contentious issue of our digital legacy. Show more
Jolyon Jenkins meets the men trying to build free energy machines in their garages. Using plans bought online, he makes his own. But will the men in black get to him first? Show more
Ever since the middle ages, pieces of the True Cross have been sold to the gullible. But now the trade in bogus relics has moved online, to the fury of traditional Catholics. Show more
Jolyon Jenkins attends an international whistling competition to meet the people who want whistling to be taken seriously as a musical art form. Show more
Jolyon Jenkins explores Esperanto, the language designed to bring world peace and harmony, and finds that, despite a century of misfortune, the idealism behind it still survives. Show more
Advertisers would love to find a "buy button" in our brains, which when pressed would make us buy their stuff. A new breed of "neuromarketers" are offering just that. Does it work? Show more
Out of the Ordinary
Liberland
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Jolyon Jenkins reports on one man's attempt to create a new nation - a libertarian utopia - in what he says is unclaimed land in the Balkans. Half a million people want to join him. Show more
Jolyon Jenkins investigates whether meditation could do you more harm than good. Mindfulness is promoted as a kind of mental detox, but some people have had disturbing experiences. Show more
Jolyon Jenkins reports on people who believe that the dead can speak to us through our radios thanks to 'electronic voice projection'. Are there really ghosts in the machines? Show more
Jolyon Jenkins meets the people who think that drilling a hole in their head can restore the lost energy of youth and help prevent dementia. Could there be anything in it? Show more
Jolyon Jenkins meets the people zapping their brains with DIY electrical devices, lasers and electromagnets. They want to learn faster, dream better and have spiritual experiences. Show more
Jolyon Jenkins reports on the men fighting a liberation war against what they see as female tyranny, and the separatist 'men going their own way', who have given up on women. Show more