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Modern Alchemy

Transforming waste into valuable products, with Bridget Kendall and guests.

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Counterfeiting

Bridget Kendall asks why there are such lucrative markets in fake art and fake medicines.

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Zooming Out

Bridget invites listeners to zoom out into space, to gain new perspectives on reality.

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Hair, Fur and Cilia

Bridget Kendall and her guests explore the slender filaments that are essential to life.

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Outcasts: The Forum at Risor Festival, Norway

What is it like to be on the edge of Europe? And do modern societies create new outcasts?

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Solitude

When being alone is a blessing, and when it is a blight.

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Democracy and the Arts in South Africa

What role can art play in the political discourse of post-apartheid South Africa?

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Time to Rethink What Is 'Normal'?

Where is the dividing line between normal behaviour and a mental health problem?

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Bubbles

The curious properties of bubbles in the oceans, in our bodies and in art.

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Multilingualism

The advantages and disadvantages of speaking more than one language.

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Challenges of Nanoscience

Transforming biosciences with particles just a few billionths of a metre across.

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Aliens

Bridget Kendall and guests discuss alien plants and animals, alien beings and alien dreams

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Natural Navigation

Spatial processing in the brain, bird migration and natural navigational clues for all.

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Lines

How a spark of inspiration is transformed into a line on canvas or a line of verse.

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Self-Assembly

Bridget Kendall and guests explore how cells, molecules and robots achieve complexity.

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Adventures in 2D: Graphene and Beyond

What is the future of graphene and other two-dimensional materials?

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Clay

The joys and perils of porcelain, kaolin and volcanic soils.

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Resurrection

Should we bring the woolly mammoth back to life, and should ancient languages be revived?

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Plasticity

Shape-shifting in everyday objects, our brains and plastic waste.

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Imagination

The marvellous ability to create almost anything we want in our minds.

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Shells

What shells can tell us about our past, present and future.

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Upside Down

Bridget Kendall and guests discuss subversion and inversion in a topsy-turvy world.

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Deja Vu

Is deja vu a brain glitch or misplaced 'real' memory? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.

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Worlds in Miniature

Bridget Kendall and guests explore why tiny things appeal to us.

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Design and Beauty

How important is beauty in design? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.

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Core: A Journey to the Centre of the Things

A journey to the very centre of the earth, the universe and ourselves.

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Being Cold

Bridget Kendall travels to Canada to find out how weather affects a nation's character.

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The Power of Wind

Bridget Kendall and guests explore the impact of the wind on Earth, in space and in art.

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The Hidden Power of Noise

Bridget Kendall and guests discuss why we should pay more attention to background noise.

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Machine Translation: The End of the Human Translator?

Will new technology mean the end of the human translator?

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