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How can we better understand endometriosis?
Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken explore how to improve our understanding of endometriosis.
24 Feb 2026,·29 mins
Baby Sleep Products
Can any nests or docks, gadgets or blinds, really help babies sleep better?
19 Feb 2026,·26 mins
How to bury radioactive waste
And how can future civilisations remember where we put it?
Life Without Rats
Surely a world without the rodents we look to exterminate anyway would be fine?
20 Feb 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
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
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
Can you hack ChatGPT?
Hacking ChatGPT, data centres eating your town, and Musk's takeover of the global internet
19 Feb 2026,·34 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
Body Clock
Tick, tock! What is your body clock and is it possible to change it?
11 Aug 2021,·18 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
Series 24
Frosty Fractals
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain investigate nature's most intricate patterns
02 Jan 2026,·29 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
Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean takes Martha Kearney to visit her favourite island.
01 Jan 2026,·24 mins
Series 2
Perfectionists: Martha Graham
Martha Graham was to modern dance what Picasso was to painting.
16 Jan 2026,·14 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
Who cares for the carers?
We hear about projects in Bangladesh and the UK to help give carers a break.
17 Feb 2026,·23 mins
Love of a Cold Climate
What will warmer winters mean for the natural world?
19 Dec 2025,·52 mins
2026: Year of the Horse
In celebration of Lunar New Year, Adam Walton learns all about horses.
17 Feb 2026,·29 mins
Bonus Episode 8. From Two to Three - Parents on the Couch: Dr. Orna Guralnik
India chats to Dr. Orna Guralnik about how the arrival of a child impacts a couple.
21 Jan 2026,·15 mins
13. Legacy
India considers how witches today are a powerful way of resisting and addressing the past.
30 May 2023,·28 mins
5: The Future
The final part of a thought-provoking book questioning overdiagnosis in medicine.
21 Mar 2025,·14 mins
Omnibus
Presenters Andrew and Richard look back over their four-year odyssey to find the yeti.
14 Dec 2023,·57 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
How Music Can Hold and Heal Us
We explore how music—especially lullabies—heals like medicine.
13 Mar 2025,·25 mins
Insects and mobile phone
Smart phones could become even smarter – thanks to ants, beetles, moths and spiders!
17 Jan 2022,·20 mins
Being right
Why getting it right might mean admitting you're wrong.
03 Feb 2022,·28 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
Sloth
Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward delve into the psychology of the seven sins. Last up: sloth.
02 Jan 2024,·28 mins
