Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,29 Sep 2016,30 mins

RIP Rosetta, The Descent of Aquatic Ape, The Ascent of Antikythera's Bones, HG Wells the Journalist

BBC Inside Science

Available for over a year

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission to a comet is about to end. Adam Rutherford discusses its discoveries and looks ahead to its imminent controlled slow-motion crash landing on comet 67P. Also in the programme - the marine excavation of human remains on a 2000 year old ship that sank with the extraordinary Antikythera mechanism: why most human evolution researchers don't rate the aquatic or waterside ape hypothesis: and H.G Wells, the science communicator.

Programme Website
More episodes