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The scientists behind the breakthroughs
World Service,·11 episodes
Interview with palaeoanthropologist Richard Leakey on his life and work
20 Sep 1995,·28 mins
Interview with Northern Irish astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell on her life and work
26 Sep 1995,·28 mins
Interview with British particle physicist and Anglican priest Dr John Polkinghorne
27 Sep 1995,·28 mins
Interview with Margaret Boden, researcher into artificial intelligence and psychology
01 Oct 1995,·27 mins
A conversation with Sir Richard Doll, the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th Century
03 Oct 1995,·28 mins
Interview with psychologist David Canter who developed the science of offender profiling
04 Apr 1999,·26 mins
British space scientist, Monica Grady talks about a meteorite from Mars
09 Apr 1999,·28 mins
Interview with Esther Dyson - writer, entrepreneur, and founding member of the digerati
20 Apr 1999,·28 mins
First broadcast in 1999. An interview with the British entrepreneur and inventor
21 Apr 1999,·27 mins
Interview with Professor of Biology John Maynard-Smith, author of The Theory of Evolution
25 Apr 1999,·25 mins
Interview with world expert in cancer treatment and cancer research, Dr Karol Sikora
17 May 1999,·26 mins