podcasts.files.bbci.co.ukadded August 2026
Discoveryby BBC World Service16 Feb 2026
Caroline Smith talks to Jim Al-Khalili about what meteorites and other space rocks reveal about the early solar system and the potential for ancient life on Mars.
Discoveryby BBC World Service9 Feb 2026
Pioneering photochemist AP De Silva on building molecular photo sensors for urgent medical diagnosis and to compute activity inside cells and tissues.
Discoveryby BBC World Service2 Feb 2026
Materials scientist Eleanor Schofield on the challenges of studying and protecting ancient wooden warships, and the enlightening process of conserving the mighty Mary Rose.
Discoveryby BBC World Service26 Jan 2026
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Peter Knight about his life in quantum physics and the dawn of the new quantum technological age.
Discoveryby BBC World Service19 Jan 2026
The very latest developments in the world of Earth science with Roland Pease, including lessons from Hurricane Katrina, ancient Antarctic ice and the origins of life on Earth.
Discoveryby BBC World Service12 Jan 2026
The very latest developments in the world of space science with Roland Pease, including solar storms, lunar seismology and planetary defence from asteroids.
Discoveryby BBC World Service5 Jan 2026
Marnie Chesterton travels to Helgoland, a remote island where quantum theory was born a century ago. Can a single question help her understand this notoriously tricky topic?
Discoveryby BBC World Service29 Dec 2025
Geneticist George Church on mapping the world's DNA and a mammoth 'de-extinction' project "My ideas are often labelled as impossible, or useless, or both.
Discoveryby BBC World Service22 Dec 2025
Explorations in the world of science. Movies might have us believe that bomb disposal comes down to cutting the right wire.
Discoveryby BBC World Service15 Dec 2025
Explorations in the world of science. Many people will be familiar with Parkinson’s disease: the progressive brain disorder that causes symptoms including tremors and slower movement, leading on to...
Discoveryby BBC World Service8 Dec 2025
Herpetologist Mark O'Shea tells Jim Al-Khalili how a boyhood interest in snakes paved the way for a career studying rare, venomous species around the globe. How do you feel about snakes?
Discoveryby BBC World Service1 Dec 2025
We investigate a rare speech disorder, foreign accent syndrome, where patients start speaking in a brand new accent that they often have no connection to.
Discoveryby BBC World Service24 Nov 2025
How ferrets, dogs and rats are being trained to perform niche jobs from drain cleaning to laying fibre optic cables to detecting cancer and locating landmines.
Discoveryby BBC World Service17 Nov 2025
Jenny Kleeman is granted a rare window into what happens to the bodies donated for medical education and used for surgical training.
Discoveryby BBC World Service10 Nov 2025
Kevin Fong talks about pestering Nasa for a job, researching space medicine and the challenges of working on the front line in hospitals during major medical incidents.
Discoveryby BBC World Service3 Nov 2025
Pratibha Gai tells Jim Al-Khalili about the microscope she created allowing scientists to tinker with chemical reactions at atomic level to create better, greener products Chemical reactions are...
Discoveryby BBC World Service27 Oct 2025
Astrophysicist Catherine Heymans talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her fascination with dark matter, her role as Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and the power of comedy to educate.
Discoveryby BBC World Service20 Oct 2025
A near-death experience led zoologist Tim Coulson to became fascinated by how all living things thrive or die and how predators such as wolves shape ecosystems and evolution.
Discoveryby BBC World Service13 Oct 2025
Jim Al-Khalili talks to astrophysicist Brian Schmidt about his discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up - and what wine-making and astronomy have in common.
Discoveryby BBC World Service6 Oct 2025
The primatologist Jane Goodall died last week. In this interview from 2020, she describes her life with wild chimpanzees and the need to protect wild animals and wild places.
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