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In Our Time: Science

Scientific principles, theory, and the role of key figures in the advancement of science.

Episodes

Total: 292

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss an iconic piece of 20th century maths - Gödel’s Incompleteness Theor

The Music of the Spheres

2008/6/19

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the music of the spheres, the elegant and poetic idea that the revol

Lysenkoism

2008/6/5

Melvyn Bragg and guests delve into the dark world of genetics under Joseph Stalin in discussing the

Probability

2008/5/29

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability where heads or tails is a sim

The Brain

2008/5/8

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the human brain. Since time immemorial p

The Laws of Motion

2008/4/3

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Newton’s Laws of Motion. In 1687 Isaac Newton attempted to explain t

Ada Lovelace

2008/3/6

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace. Deep in the heart of t

The Multiverse

2008/2/21

Melvyn Bragg and guests will be leaving the studio, the planet and indeed, the universe to take a to

Plate Tectonics

2008/1/24

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the science of plate tectonics revolutionised our understanding

The Four Humours

2007/12/20

Melvyn Bragg and guests talk about blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm. These are the four hum

Genetic Mutation

2007/12/6

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss mutation in genetics and evolution. When lying mortally ill with can

The Fibonacci Sequence

2007/11/29

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Fibonacci Sequence. Named after a 13th century Italian Mathemati

Oxygen

2007/11/15

Melvyn Bragg discusses the discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier. In the lat

Antimatter

2007/10/4

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Antimatter, a type of particle predicted by the British physicist, P

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Permian-Triassic boundary. 250 million years ago, in the Permian

Renaissance Astrology

2007/6/14

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Renaissance Astrology. In Act I Scene II of King Lear, the ne’er do

Gravitational Waves

2007/5/17

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss mysterious phenomena called Gravitational Waves in contemporary phys

Symmetry

2007/4/19

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss symmetry. Found in Nature - from snowflakes to butterflies - and in

Anaesthetics

2007/3/29

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of anaesthetics, from laughing gas in the 1790s to the d

Microbiology

2007/3/8

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of microbiology. We have more microbes in our bodies tha