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In Our Time: Science

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

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The Universe's Shape

The Universe's Shape

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shape of the universe. In the Beginning, runs one account, was the Big Bang. All ma... Read more

7 Feb 2002

28mins

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The Cambrian Period

The Cambrian Period

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cambrian period when there was an explosion of life on Earth. In the Selkirk Mountai... Read more

17 Feb 2005

42mins

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Circadian Rhythms

Circadian Rhythms

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the evolution and role of Circadian Rhythms, the so-called body clock that influence... Read more

17 Dec 2015

48mins

Ranked #4

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The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1

The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1

As part of the BBC's year of science programming, Melvyn Bragg looks at the history of the oldest scientific learned soc... Read more

4 Jan 2010

42mins

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Random and Pseudorandom

Random and Pseudorandom

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss randomness and pseudorandomness.Randomness is the mathematics of the unpredictable. ... Read more

13 Jan 2011

42mins

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The Poincaré Conjecture

The Poincaré Conjecture

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Poincaré Conjecture. The great French mathematician Henri Poincaré declared: “The sc... Read more

2 Nov 2006

42mins

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The Nervous System

The Nervous System

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the nervous system.Most animals have a nervous system, a network of nerve tissues wh... Read more

10 Feb 2011

42mins

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Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin

Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin in 2009 and the 150th anniversary of the publication o... Read more

5 Jan 2009

42mins

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Extremophiles

Extremophiles

In 1977, scientists in the submersible "Alvin" were exploring the deep ocean bed off the Galapagos Islands. In the dark,... Read more

25 Jun 2015

46mins

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The Curies

The Curies

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the scientific achievements of the Curie family. In 1903 Marie and Pierre Curie shar... Read more

26 Mar 2015

47mins

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Popper

Popper

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Karl Popper whose ideas abou... Read more

8 Feb 2007

42mins

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Relativity

Relativity

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Einstein's theories of relativity. Between 1905 and 1917 Albert Einstein formulated ... Read more

6 Jun 2013

42mins

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Hybrids

Hybrids

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what happens when parents from different species have offspring, despite their genetic d... Read more

31 Oct 2019

50mins

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Grand Unified Theory

Grand Unified Theory

Melvyn Bragg examines 20th century physics’ quest for the ultimate theory of everything. Einstein left us with his theor... Read more

24 Feb 2000

28mins

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Game Theory

Game Theory

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the mathematical study of decision-making. First formulated in the 1940... Read more

10 May 2012

41mins

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss artificial intelligence. Can machines think? It was a question posed by the mathematicia... Read more

8 Dec 2005

40mins

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Human Evolution

Human Evolution

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the story of human evolution, which stretches back over six million years. It is not the... Read more

16 Feb 2006

28mins

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Aristotle's Biology

Aristotle's Biology

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable achievement of Aristotle (384-322BC) in the realm of biological investiga... Read more

7 Feb 2019

50mins

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Darwin: On the Origin of Species

Darwin: On the Origin of Species

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the... Read more

7 Jan 2009

42mins

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The Multiverse

The Multiverse

Melvyn Bragg and guests will be leaving the studio, the planet and indeed, the universe to take a tour of the Multiverse... Read more

21 Feb 2008

41mins

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