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The Science of Addiction

Sally Marlow turns to science to find out why so many people in Britain are addicted.

• 28 mins

First Flush of Love: Plastic Fantastic - Episode 1

Materials scientist Mark Miodownik explores our love-hate relationship with plastic.

• 28 mins

Things Start to Go Stale: Plastic Fantastic - Episode 2

Materials scientist Mark Miodownik explores our love-hate relationship with plastic.

• 28 mins

What's the Solution?: Plastic Fantastic - Episode 3

How do we address our over-reliance and misuse of plastic? Should we give it up?

• 28 mins

Climate Change and Me: Callum Roberts - Episode 1

Marine biologist Callum Roberts on how corals showed him the impact of climate change.

• 14 mins

Climate Change and Me: Sir John Lawton - Episode 2

Environmental scientist John Lawton describes the impact of global climate change on birds

• 14 mins

Climate Change and Me: Professor Mary Edwards - Episode 3

Geographer Mary Edwards on the melting of ice in the Arctic and climate change.

• 13 mins

Climate Change and Me: Professor Jennifer Leaning - Episode 4

Jennifer Leaning on human migration, the environment and climate change.

• 14 mins

Climate Change and Me: Richard Dawson - Episode 5

Richard Dawson on the UK's engineering infrastructure, flooding and climate change.

• 14 mins

Aleks in Wonderland: The International League of Geeky Gentlemen - Episode 1

The origins of the internet, and why nobody thought of making it secure.

• 29 mins

Aleks in Wonderland: The World Wide Villain - Episode 2

Did the World Wide Web's Utopian ideals spread crime and obscenity?

• 29 mins

Aleks in Wonderland: Attack of the Zombie Baby Monitors - Episode 3

Can we control the dark side of the internet?

• 28 mins

The Genius of Accidents: Viagra - Episode 1

Adam Hart investigates the accidental discovery of a little blue pill that changed sex.

• 14 mins

The Genius of Accidents: The Big Bang - Episode 2

Adam Hart investigates the accidental discovery of the evidence for the Big Bang.

• 14 mins

The Genius of Accidents: The Coelacanth - Episode 3

The story of a fish that was discovered 66 million years after its 'extinction'.

• 14 mins

The Genius of Accidents: Jet Streams - Episode 4

The story of a volcanic eruption that accidentally revealed the jet streams.

• 14 mins

The Genius of Accidents: CRISPR - Episode 5

A story of the discovery of genetic scissors that accidentally enabled fast gene editing.

• 14 mins

Long Covid

Adam Rutherford explores the science behind why recovery from covid can be so protracted.

• 28 mins

Laws That Aren't Laws: Murphy's Law - Episode 1

Comedian Robin Ince explores laws that govern our lives that really aren鈥檛, but should be.

• 14 mins

Laws That Aren't Laws: Parkinson's Law - Episode 2

Comedian Robin Ince explores laws that govern our lives that really aren't, but should be.

• 14 mins

Laws That Aren't Laws: Betteridge's Law of Headlines - Episode 3

Comedian Robin Ince explores laws that govern our lives that really aren't, but should be.

• 14 mins

Laws That Aren't Laws: The Peter Principle - Episode 4

Robin Ince investigates Lawrence J Peter's analysis of hierarchical structures.

• 14 mins

Laws That Aren't Laws: Stigler's Law - Episode 5

Stigler's Law was first hypothesised by his friend, Robert K. Merton.

• 14 mins

Hardware, Software, Anywhere: Software - Episode 1

Nick Baker collects some programmes about how technology has changed our physical world

• 60 mins

Hardware, Software, Anywhere: Hardware - Episode 2

Nick Baker collects some programmes about how technology has changed our physical world.

• 59 mins

Hardware, Software, Anywhere: Anywhere - Episode 3

Nick Baker collects some programmes about how technology has changed our physical world.

• 60 mins

Gagarin and the lost Moon

The story of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly into space

• 57 mins

Dare To Repair: How We Broke the Future - Episode 1

Why electronic gadgets don鈥檛 last as long as they used to and why repairing them is hard.

• 34 mins

Dare To Repair: The Right to Repair - Episode 2

Exploring how citizens are fighting back for the right to repair their own stuff.

• 35 mins

Dare to Repair: Fixing the Future - Episode 3

Mark Miodownik looks at how repair and repair-ability fits into our sustainable future.

• 35 mins