Ranked #1
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
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28mins
Ranked #2
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
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42mins
Ranked #3
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
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48mins
Ranked #4
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
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42mins
Ranked #5
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
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42mins
Ranked #6
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
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42mins
Ranked #7
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
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42mins
Ranked #8
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
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42mins
Ranked #9
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
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46mins
Ranked #10
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
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47mins
Ranked #11
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
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42mins
Ranked #12
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
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42mins
Ranked #13
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
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50mins
Ranked #14
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
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28mins
Ranked #15
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
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41mins
Ranked #16
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
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40mins
Ranked #17
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
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28mins
Ranked #18
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
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50mins
Ranked #19
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
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42mins
Ranked #20
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
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41mins