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
Weight-loss Injections
Is it OK to stay on weight-loss injections?
08 Jan 2026,·35 mins
How rare are Greenland’s rare earth elements?
What rare earths have been found in Greenland, and why do we want them?
08 Jan 2026,·28 mins
5. Good Stress and Getting Over Yourself
Claudia Hammond concludes her look into the 21st-century phenomenon of overwhelm.
09 Jan 2026,·14 mins
Daily Dose: Embarrassment
Chris and Xand return to embarrassment and why it’s an important social emotion.
09 Jan 2026,·3 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
Series 2
Perfectionists: Martha Graham
Martha Graham was to modern dance what Picasso was to painting.
16 Jan 2026,·14 mins
Series 34
The North Pole Unwrapped - Russell Kane, Felicity Aston and Lloyd Peck
Brian Cox and Robin Ince venture north to unearth (or un-snow) the secrets of the Arctic.
17 Dec 2025,·42 mins
Series 24
Frosty Fractals
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain investigate nature's most intricate patterns
02 Jan 2026,·29 mins
Bonus Episode 6. Kids are Nature
In this bonus episode, India talks to Dr. William Bird about the benefits of nature.
07 Jan 2026,·15 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
Grooming Apes and the Origins of Kissing
The hairy history of the human kiss. Where did it come from? And why is it good for us?
29 Aug 2025,·14 mins
Secret Paths
Chloe Dalton’s memoir about her unlikely and transformative relationship with a wild hare.
03 Jan 2025,·14 mins
Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean takes Martha Kearney to visit her favourite island.
01 Jan 2026,·24 mins
Love of a Cold Climate
What will warmer winters mean for the natural world?
19 Dec 2025,·52 mins
A Celebration of Michael Mosley
On Just One Thing Day (12 July, 2024), we celebrated the life and work of Michael Mosley.
13 Jul 2024,·44 mins
Body Clock
Tick, tock! What is your body clock and is it possible to change it?
11 Aug 2021,·18 mins
Future Gazing
Adam Walton predicts the future, asking where science will lead us beyond 2026.
06 Jan 2026,·29 mins
13. Legacy
India considers how witches today are a powerful way of resisting and addressing the past.
30 May 2023,·28 mins
Episode 5: The Flickering
Five original essays on how the mysterious is woven into the ordinary and the everyday.
18 Jul 2025,·14 mins
Can AI power a green fashion revolution?
Is AI helping to make fashion more sustainable? Or could it make the problem worse?
06 Jan 2026,·23 mins
Sloth
Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward delve into the psychology of the seven sins. Last up: sloth.
02 Jan 2024,·28 mins
Series 3: Exercise
S3. Ep 8 - Activity Revolution
The Van Tulleken twins explore the science of exercise and the dangers of inactivity.
06 Feb 2024,·28 mins
Series 6
G'day from Down Under and celebrating Guide Dogs NI 40th birthday
Vet Rob has started an adventure in Australia and is regaling us with his exotic stories.
07 Jan 2026,·26 mins
6. The Microdoctrine
Final episode of the LSD saga about an attempt to spark a revolution of the mind.
23 Nov 2022,·25 mins
7. Bonus Episode - Extra Dose
A Petri dish of funny and fascinating extra unheard bits from Series 2.
24 Dec 2024,·40 mins
Day Twenty-Eight: New Power
India discusses how we can improve healthcare for women
21 Mar 2022,·14 mins
12. Why do we play?
Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi asks why do humans play?
07 Mar 2025,·14 mins
8. I Sung of Chaos
Is Silicon Valley’s radical experiment to connect the world about to implode?
18 Mar 2024,·32 mins
The Human
Katherine Rundell explores wonderful stories of twenty astonishing but endangered animals.
31 Oct 2025,·4 mins
Being right
Why getting it right might mean admitting you're wrong.
03 Feb 2022,·28 mins
