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Surviving without lungs for 48 hours
How a man too ill to receive his lung transplant survived with an artificial one.
18 Feb 2026,·26 mins
How to bury radioactive waste
And how can future civilisations remember where we put it?
19 Feb 2026,·26 mins
Why don't more animals have opposable thumbs?
Thumbs are incredibly useful to humans, so why didn’t they evolve in more species?
20 Feb 2026,·26 mins
Seeing double
A pair of twins on trial for murder has us wondering about all things identical.
20 Feb 2026,·49 mins
Is AI killing Search?
Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong look at how Ai might kill the web as we know it.
18 Feb 2026,·29 mins
Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution
4. Fighting for Humanity in the Age of the Machine.
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives his fourth and final Reith Lecture.
16 Dec 2025,·57 mins
Can you hack ChatGPT?
Hacking ChatGPT, data centres eating your town, and Musk's takeover of the global internet
19 Feb 2026,·34 mins
Elon Musk: Money, memes and Mars (from Good Bad Billionaire)
How Elon Musk became the richest person on the planet
19 Feb 2026,·55 mins
China's green energy revolution
Has China managed to stop its greenhouse gas emissions from growing thanks to renewables?
22 Feb 2026,·25 mins
Anaesthesia
What happens to our brains and our consciousness when we’re put to sleep?
24 Jan 2026,·49 mins
Artemis II
Trailer: The new mission to the Moon
The countdown is on to 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II, following Nasa’s new Moon mission
17 Feb 2026,·4 mins
Jehane Ragai on the science of authenticating artworks
Egyptian chemist Jehane Ragai on proving forged paintings and uncovering masterpieces.
30 Dec 2025,·28 mins
Series 24
Frosty Fractals
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain investigate nature's most intricate patterns
02 Jan 2026,·29 mins
Engaging chatbots
We chat about a conversational AI that's almost human-like in its speech skills
17 Feb 2026,·26 mins
The Life Scientific: Caroline Smith
Caroline Smith on meteorites, rocks on Mars and the potential for ancient life there.
16 Feb 2026,·26 mins
Series 1
Sleep Deprivation and Insomnia
If we don't snooze, we lose. How badly does lack of sleep affect our mind and our body?
19 Dec 2017,·28 mins
2026: Year of the Horse
In celebration of Lunar New Year, Adam Walton learns all about horses.
17 Feb 2026,·29 mins
Doing the Maths
First broadcast in 2006. The mathematics of infinity are discussed
27 Sep 2006,·22 mins
Series 4
Strontium
Chemist Andrea Sella ends his festive series with fireworks and the element strontium.
27 Dec 2019,·14 mins
How could the latest science of placebo change the way we think about medicine?
18 Feb 2019,·28 mins
AI: A Future for Humans?
The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures.
22 Dec 2021,·28 mins
Omnibus Edition
A celebration of the first moon landing and the Welsh people who played vital roles.
22 Dec 2019,·60 mins
Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Nicolas Bourbaki
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
25 Jun 2010,·15 mins
The Hunting of The Quark
First broadcast in 1997. Inside protons and neutrons lurks the holy grail of physics
10 Dec 1997,·13 mins
01/04/2022
Gabriella Coleman investigates one of the most misunderstood cultures of the modern world
01 Apr 2022,·57 mins
How Music Can Hold and Heal Us
We explore how music—especially lullabies—heals like medicine.
13 Mar 2025,·25 mins
Life after Life
First broadcast in 1999. Do you believe in life after death?
15 Jun 1999,·12 mins
Episode 4
Prof Robert Winston on what happens when we perform music - does it change our brains?
06 Jun 2013,·30 mins
Insects and mobile phone
Smart phones could become even smarter – thanks to ants, beetles, moths and spiders!
17 Jan 2022,·20 mins
