IoT Science
Published: Fri, 15 Aug 2014
Science programmes in archive:-
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss absolute zero, the theoretical lowest possible temperature
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ada Lovelace - the Victorian 'enchantress of numbers'.
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Melvyn Bragg looks at the ethical, economic and biological implications of living longer.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the age of the Earth and its division into four great Eons.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alchemy, the ancient science of transformations.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of anaesthetics.
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The 2000 year old history of mankind's quest to understand the human body.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of animals in humankind's search for knowledge.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the Antarctic and its exploration.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses Antimatter in particle physics and cosmology.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses the Greek mathematician Archimedes and his famous cry of "eureka!"
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Melvyn Bragg investigates artificial intelligence; can a computer imitate the human mind?
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Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are near to achieving the thinking, feeling computer.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the unique properties of asteroids.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the relationship between astronomy and British Imperial expansion.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Jacobean thinker Francis Bacon and Baconian Science.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Black Holes, the ghosts of massive stars.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss blood, from medical progress to the link to the divine.
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The dispute between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over who invented calculus.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss carbon, which forms the basis of all organic life.
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Melvyn Bragg explores the question and theories of a grand design in the universe.
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Melvyn Bragg examines how Chaos Theory has affected our understanding of the universe.
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Melvyn Bragg explores chemistry's ongoing mission to understand irreducible substances.
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Melvyn Bragg examines predictions and solutions for global warming and rising sea levels.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss comets, the 'dirty snowballs' of the solar system.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss complexity theory.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of electrical conduction.
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Melvyn Bragg examines why ideas about consciousness preoccupy philosophers and scientists.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss cosmic rays.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and history of codes.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history and achievements of crystallography.
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Melvyn Bragg examines recently discovered 'dark energy' and its effect on the universe.
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Melvyn visits Darwin's home at Down House in Kent.
Darwin: On the Origin of Species
How Darwin was eventually persuaded to publish On the Origin of Species in November 1859.
Darwin: On the Origins of Charles Darwin
Darwin's early life in Shropshire and his three years at Cambridge.
Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle
How Darwin's work during the Beagle expedition influenced his theories.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the function and interpretation of dreams.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the role of narcotics and stimulants in the history of medicine.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the emergence of geology as a scientific discipline.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ediacara Biota.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the dawn of the age of electricity.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the future of gene therapy and advances in evolutionary biology.
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Melvyn Bragg explores the basis and context for the ideas of Evolutionary Psychology.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our chances of ever discovering life on another planet.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Fermat's Last Theorem.
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The significance of fossils in history and the impact of techniques in understanding them.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the creation and destruction of galaxies.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the mathematical study of decision-making
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Melvyn Bragg explores the part genes play in our personalities.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the implications of the developments in genetic engineering.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses mutation in genetics and evolution.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the development of the science of genetics.
Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mathematician Kurt Godel and his work.
Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment
Melvyn Bragg assesses the scientific legacy of the 18th century German poet Goethe.
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The 20th century pursuit in physics for the ultimate theory of everything.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of Gravitational Waves.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of scientific ideas about Heat.
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The history of the quest to find the Higgs Boson, also known as the 'God Particle'.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of geography and ecology in shaping world history.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the six million year old story of human evolution.
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Melvyn Bragg examines whether our natures are innate or defined by unbringing.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution of the human species.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the Prussian naturalist and explorer, Alexander Von Humboldt.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how emotional experiences can become physical symptoms.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss imaginary numbers.
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Melvyn Bragg investigates the creatives forces of the imagination.
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Melvyn Bragg investigates how neuroscience can explain the enigmas of consciousness.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for immunisation and its impact on society.
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Melvyn Bragg examines whether agriculture or trade drove 19th century British imperialism.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 5000 year long story of Indian Maths.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the nature and existence of mathematical infinity.
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Melvyn Bragg explores the social and economic consequences of the information revolution.
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Melvyn Bragg explores the origins, manifestations and possibilities of intelligence.
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The extraordinary mind and theories of the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 18th century French precursor to Darwin.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether the formation of language is innate or cultural.
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Melvyn Bragg considers whether what is true in physics is true in all areas of existence.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of logic.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the radical philosophy of the Vienna Circle.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the destructive career of the Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the giant molecules that underpin all life.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and mysterious force of magnetism.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of the mammals which began 65 million years ago.
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Melvyn Bragg examines how humans have understood and fought disease throughout history.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses the planet Mars, a source of endless fascination in human history
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Melvyn Bragg examines the importance of mathematics in relation to other sciences.
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Melvyn Bragg examines whether mathematics is a process of invention or of discovery.
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The work and legacy of the often overlooked 19th century scientist James Clerk Maxwell.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the technological advances and ethics of modern medicine.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the function and significance of memory.
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Melvyn Bragg examines how our collective and individual ways of remembering have changed.
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Melvyn Bragg explores the fascinating and mystifying science of meteorology.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of microbiology, the study of microscopic life.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to define humanity's part in the natural world.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss negative numbers, a history of mystery and suspicion.
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Melvyn Bragg examines neuroscience, the relationship between the mind and the brain.
Neuroscience in the 20th century
Melvyn Bragg examines the little we know and what we don't yet know about the brain.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the 20th century development of nuclear physics as a science.
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Melvyn Bragg explores what science has revealed, and we still don't know, about the sea.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the science of optics
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Melvyn Bragg discusses the discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the causes and our mechanisms of coping with pain.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the French thinker Blaise Pascal.
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Melvyn Bragg examines perception: how the brain reacts to the mass of data crowding it.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss photosynthesis.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the history of the longest and most detailed number in nature.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Victorian archaeologist Augustus Pitt-Rivers.
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Melvyn Bragg examines plate tectonics, a theory that transformed our idea of the earth.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pliny's Natural History, one of the first encyclopedias.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses the Anglo-Austrian philosopher Karl Popper.
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Melvyn Bragg examines prime numbers and their mysterious role in the universe of numbers.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of politics on psychoanalysis.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the relevance of psychoanalysis at the end of the 20th century.
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Melvyn Bragg assesses the role of Freudian analysis in understanding literature.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 20th century attempts to understand the Quantum world.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the discovery of radiation, from radio waves to gamma rays
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Einstein's theory of relativity.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Renaissance Astrology.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Renaissance obsession with Magic.
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Melvyn Bragg explores Renaissance Mathematics, when maths moved from an art to a science.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear science.
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Melvyn Bragg explores the areas of conflict and agreement between science and religion.
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Melvyn Bragg examines how perceptions of science have changed in the 20th century.
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Melvyn Bragg examines whether science has ruined our sense of poetic wonder at the world.
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Melvyn Bragg looks at how cyberspace has introduced a new concept of space in our world.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the states of matter, from solids to plasmas.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses the idea of symmetry in art and nature.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the age of the Universe.
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The history of cultural, medical, artistic and philosophical ideas about the human brain.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss our knowledge of memory and the functioning of the brain.
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Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient origins of our Gregorian calendar.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the Cambrian period, when there was an explosion of life on Earth.
The Cavendish Family in Science
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the scientific achievements of the Cavendish family.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the biology and origins of the cell.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Cool Universe.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses the origins of the Earth.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the eye and how it works.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses the mathematical and cultural mysteries of the Fibonacci Sequence.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses the four humours in medical history.
The Geological Formation of Britain
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the geological formation of Britain.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the search for the Graviton particle in physics.
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Melvyn Bragg looks at the 20th century shift from industrial to information society.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas about the heart.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Hippocratic Oath.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what new research reveals about the infant brain.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the invention of radio.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses the Jesuits, "the school masters of Europe".
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the KT Boundary and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library of Alexandria.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life cycle of stars.
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Melvyn Bragg examines an 18th century group of pioneering scientists and engineers.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the measurement of time.
The Measurement Problem in Physics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the measurement problem in physics.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the development of the microscope.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the Multiverse.
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Melvyn Bragg explores the ancient astrological idea of the music of the spheres.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the science of taxonomy; the classification of the natural world.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolution and characteristics of the Neanderthals.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the Needham Question; why Europe, not China made modern technology.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutrino, the so-called 'ghost particle'.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the observatory at Jaipur.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss when and how life on earth originated.
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Melvyn Bragg discusses the Permian-Triassic boundary in evolutionary history.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to reconcile Quantum Theory and classical physics.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the physics of time.
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Melvyn Bragg examines our knowledge of the planets in both our and other solar systems.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a puzzle that may explain the shape of the universe.
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The history of the formation of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy.
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 1
Melvyn Bragg travels to Oxford, where the young Christopher Wren and friends experimented.
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 2
How Newton tested the lines between government-funded research and public access.
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 3
The 19th century blooms scientifically with numerous alternative, specialist societies.
The Royal Society and British Science: Episode 4
The more discreet role played by the Society in the 20th century.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Scientific Method.
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Melvyn Bragg explores the origin of the concept and the historical role of the scientist.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Melvyn Bragg examines the Second Law of Thermodynamics from steam to the Big Bang.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the speed of light, lynchpin of Einstein's universe.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the history of what we know about the origins of the universe.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shape, size and topology of the universe.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Vacuum of Space.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the evolutionary history of the whale.
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Melvyn Bragg explores the 30 year search to solve all the biggest questions in physics.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the American technological pioneer Thomas Edison.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the history of mankind's attempt to understand the nature of time.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 18th and 19th century quest for the spark of life.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the formation and eruption of volcanoes.
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss water, one of the most remarkable of all molecules.
Women and Enlightenment Science
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women in Enlightenment science.
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Melvyn Bragg examines the number between 1 and -1, once denounced as the devil's work.
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