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Elham Kashefi on how quantum computing can change the world
Will quantum computing protect our data or put it at risk?
03 Nov 2026,·28 mins
Series 25
Too Cute
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain ponder why we find tiny baby animals so adorable.
31 Oct 2026,·28 mins
The race to protect a third of the world
Time is running out for one of the most ambitious environmental pledges in history.
29 Oct 2026,·28 mins
Are right-handed people more creative?
Does being ‘right-brained’ or ‘left-brained’ affect how you think?
30 Oct 2026,·26 mins
Why aren't AI companies being stopped?
If the risks we hear about AI are real, why aren't the companies being stopped?
28 Oct 2026,·29 mins
AMOC: How the changing Atlantic could reshape our world
The main system of Atlantic currents may be weakening. How will that impact our climate?
01 Nov 2026,·23 mins
The Life Scientific: Robert Ballard
Oceanographer Bob Ballard discusses his 60-year career in deep-sea exploration.
02 Nov 2026,·26 mins
Defrauded, defamed, delivered
A label fraud that has cost millions of dollars inspires a show filled with deception.
30 Oct 2026,·49 mins
Trouble with Hubble
4. Once in human history
Nasa risks everything on a daring rescue mission to restore Hubble’s vision
19 Oct 2026,·40 mins
First human case of Shamonda virus
What is the Shamonda virus, and what risk does it pose to humans?
28 Oct 2026,·26 mins
The man who ‘saved the internet’
We hear from Ondřej Surý, the programmer whose PHP patches helped avert a cyber crisis.
27 Oct 2026,·27 mins
Series 1
Sleep Deprivation and Insomnia
If we don't snooze, we lose. How badly does lack of sleep affect our mind and our body?
19 Dec 2017,·28 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
The ghosts haunting AI storytelling
This Halloween, Thomas Germain and Jessica Maddox go ghost hunting inside everyday tech.
28 Oct 2026,·36 mins
Dr Lyn Evans
Adam Walton sits down with renowned Welsh physicist Dr Lyn Evans.
03 Nov 2026,·29 mins
Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
6. F For Fake
Jamie and Jimmy explore where fakery goes next – but can you tell which is which?
15 Apr 2026,·28 mins
Provocateurs
These five thinkers were all propelled by provocation in their thinking.
24 Oct 2026,·57 mins
Doing the Maths
First broadcast in 2006. The mathematics of infinity are discussed
27 Sep 2006,·22 mins
Omnibus Edition
A celebration of the first moon landing and the Welsh people who played vital roles.
22 Dec 2019,·60 mins
Series 2
Episode 3
The women US astronauts of Mercury 13, who never got into space.
30 May 2012,·15 mins
AI: A Future for Humans?
The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures.
22 Dec 2021,·28 mins
Are microplastics affecting our health?
Claudia Hammond puts your questions on microplastics to a panel of experts
29 Aug 2026,·49 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
How science got here, and where next
As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy have a future?
30 Oct 2025,·31 mins
8. The Terminator
Musk fears a 'Terminator future', where robots destroy humans. So why is he creating AI?
08 Apr 2025,·28 mins
Fitness in Old Age
First broadcast in 2000. How to stay fit in old age
16 Oct 2000,·13 mins
Series 4
Strontium
Chemist Andrea Sella ends his festive series with fireworks and the element strontium.
27 Dec 2019,·14 mins
Update from the Digital Human Team
The Digital Human is pausing to focus on what everyone's talking about - AI
19 Feb 2024,·1 min
Programme 4
Explaining proprioception, the Gaia hypothesis and mapping as a process
24 Mar 1999,·28 mins
