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Inside the mind of Professor Stephen Hawking
Radio 4
Inside the mind of Professor Stephen Hawking is a short animation created by Aardman Studios. Rhian Roberts, Digital Editor for Radio 4 and Radio 3 talks about how animation can stir us to tackle difficult scientific ideas.
Bookclub: Do No Harm
Jim Naughtie talks to Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh about his novel Do No Harm.
Dangerous Visions - The Illustrated Man
Radio 4
Radio 4’s latest Dangerous Visions season returns with Iain Glen as the Illustrated Man in a dramatisation of Ray Bradbury's iconic short story collection. Adapted by Brian Sibley.
In Our Time: Exoplanets
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg discusses this week's In Our Time on Exoplanets as well as his recent trip to Moscow.
Introducing Inside Science
Mohit Bakaya
Commissioning Editor
Mohit Bakaya, one of Radio 4's Commissioning Editors, discusses new programme Inside Science, which will replace Radio 4's Material World.
In Our Time: Relativity
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg on this week's In Our Time on Einstein's theory of relativity.
Earworms
Michelle Martin
My name is Shaun Keaveny, I am a music broadcaster, and a long-term sufferer of a sometimes debilitating condition. It is devastatingly virulent, indiscriminate, and can strike the patient down at any time, anywhere. It is the Earworm. An earworm is a parasitic little fragment of music that b...
Can the world's population really fit on the Isle of Wight? More or Less is back
Ruth Alexander
"And, this week, that train of thought led us to try to squeeze as many Radio 4 presenters and producers into our studio as possible..." A bunch of attention seekers would be one way of describing the More or Less team. With the Financial Times' Undercover Economist Tim Harford at the...
So You Want to Be a Scientist? The deadline approaches...
Michelle Martin
From the 2010 experiments - Ruth Brooks: Homing Snails Looking for a new hobby? Try science. One of the reasons that we launched our search for the BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year is because science isn't really seen as a hobby. Science is generally viewed as something that's do...
