In Our Time: Science

BBC Radio 4

Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.

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293 episodes
Updated February 19

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Feb 23, 2023 · 50 min
Superconductivity
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why some materials lose all electrical resistance.
Dec 22, 2022 · 51 min
The Challenger Expedition 1872-1876
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great global Victorian voyage of scientific discovery.
Nov 17, 2022 · 55 min
The Fish-Tetrapod Transition
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great stages in the evolution of life on Earth.
Oct 27, 2022 · 49 min
The Electron
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the atomic particle that's proved a gateway to modernity.
Jul 7, 2022 · 58 min
The Death of Stars
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the ends of stars can lead to new planets and new life
May 12, 2022 · 51 min
Homo erectus
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.
Apr 7, 2022 · 49 min
Seismology
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the study of earthquakes helps reveal Earth's secrets.
Nov 11, 2021 · 50 min
William and Caroline Herschel
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siblings at the forefront of 18th-century astronomy
Oct 28, 2021 · 51 min
Corals
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which form the now-threatened reefs.
Oct 7, 2021 · 48 min
The Manhattan Project
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2
Sep 16, 2021 · 53 min
The Evolution of Crocodiles
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the land animals of the Triassic that dominated dinosaurs.
May 13, 2021 · 50 min
Longitude
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea of longitude and the race to calculate it at sea.
Apr 8, 2021 · 48 min
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.
Mar 11, 2021 · 49 min
The Late Devonian Extinction
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the five major extinction events on Earth so far.
Feb 4, 2021 · 49 min
Emilie du Châtelet
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an astonishing mathematician of the French Enlightenment.
Dec 31, 2020 · 50 min
Eclipses
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientific advances gained from studying eclipses.
Oct 15, 2020 · 53 min
Alan Turing
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the short, brilliant life of computer science's founder.
Mar 5, 2020 · 50 min
Paul Dirac
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest theoretical physicists who ever lived.
Feb 27, 2020 · 50 min
The Evolution of Horses
Discussion of the origin, migration, extinction and domestication of horses.
Jan 23, 2020 · 55 min
Solar Wind
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss solar wind, from auroras to the edge of the solar system.