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View Series page for Colin Murray’s Gold Run: Extra

Colin Murray’s Gold Run: Extra

  • Sport

Extended interviews from Colin Murray's Gold Run – one man’s quest to meet every living GB gold medallist from the summer Olympics.

Sun, 27 May 12

25 minutes

View Series page for The Digital Human

The Digital Human

  • Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media

Aleks Krotoski charts how digital culture is moulding modern living. Each week join technology journalist Aleks Krotoski as she goes beyond the latest gadget or web innovation to understand what sort

8 hours ago

27 minutes

View Series page for Time To Move (BBC Learning)

Time To Move (BBC Learning)

  • Children's > Music
  • Learning > 5-11

Dance resources for children aged 6 to 8 covering popular cross-curricular topics, primarily for school use. Presented by Diane Louise Jordan and featuring music specially-composed for the series.

Wed, 23 May 12

19 minutes

View Series page for Daily Mayo

Daily Mayo

  • News
  • Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media

The best bits of Simon Mayo Drivetime on BBC Radio 2, with star guests, audience interactivity, intelligent conversation and much more.

22 hours ago

21 minutes

View Series page for Desi Download

Desi Download

  • Factual
  • News

Talat-Farooq Awan presents a pick of the week from BBC Local Radio Asian community programmes. News, views and a celebration of the cultural life of Asian people across England, all told in their own

Wed, 23 May 12

29 minutes

View Series page for Documentaries

Documentaries

  • News
  • Factual > History

Throughout the week BBC World Service offers a wide range of documentaries and other factual programmes. This podcast offers you the chance to access landmark series from our archive.

8 hours ago

23 minutes

View Series page for Colin Murray’s Gold Run: Extra

Colin Murray’s Gold Run: Extra

  • Sport

Extended interviews from Colin Murray's Gold Run – one man’s quest to meet every living GB gold medallist from the summer Olympics.

Sun, 27 May 12

25 minutes

View Series page for Inheritance Tracks

Inheritance Tracks

  • Music
  • Entertainment

Celebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to future generations.

Sat, 26 May 12

7 minutes

View Series page for Inheritance Tracks 2008-2011

Inheritance Tracks 2008-2011

  • Entertainment
  • Music

Celebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to future generations.

Sat, 31 Dec 11

7 minutes

View Series page for Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz

Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz

Geoffrey Smith with his weekly selection of jazz. Each Saturday at midnight, Geoffrey Smith introduces his personal sequence of jazz tracks, inimitably presented and covering the whole history of

Sun, 27 May 12

23 minutes

UK only

View Series page for The Digital Human

The Digital Human

  • Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media

Aleks Krotoski charts how digital culture is moulding modern living. Each week join technology journalist Aleks Krotoski as she goes beyond the latest gadget or web innovation to understand what sort

8 hours ago

27 minutes

View Series page for Sunday Supplement

Sunday Supplement

  • News

Vaughan Roderick presents a review of the week in Welsh politics with interviews, news, views and gossip. Broadcast weekly on BBC Radio Wales, Sundays from 0800–0900.

Mon, 30 Apr 12

50 minutes

  • The Life Scientific

    The Life Scientific

    Last Updated:
    8 hours ago

    Average Duration:
    27 minutes

    The Life Scientific

    • Factual > Science & Nature

    Each week, Jim al-Khalili invites a leading scientist to tell us about their life and work. He'll talk to Nobel laureates as well as the next generation of beautiful minds to find out what inspires

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    25 Episodes

  • Analysis

    Analysis

    Last Updated:
    21 hours ago

    Average Duration:
    28 minutes

    Analysis

    • Factual > Politics
    • Factual > Science & Nature
    • News

    Analysis makes sense of the ideas that change the world. What made Islam political, whether the Government can make us go green, why we think the market in human organs is repugnant are just some of

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    55 Episodes

  • Discovery

    Discovery

    Last Updated:
    21 hours ago

    Average Duration:
    22 minutes

    Discovery

    • Factual > Science & Nature

    Each week, Discovery takes an in-depth look at the most significant ideas, discoveries and trends in science, from the smallest microbe to the furthest corner of space.

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    96 Episodes

  • What's Next

    What's Next

    Last Updated:
    Mon, 28 May 12

    Average Duration:
    29 minutes

    What's Next

    • Factual > Science & Nature > Science & Technology

    What's Next is a weekly magazine programme which explores the science of our rapidly changing world - from haptics to robotics, biometrics to blogs. The programme uncovers the exciting innovations

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    4 Episodes

  • Farming Today

    Farming Today

    Last Updated:
    Mon, 28 May 12

    Average Duration:
    14 minutes

    Farming Today

    • News
    • Factual > Food & Drink
    • Factual > Science & Nature

    All rural life is here: daily news of food, farming, the countryside and the environment with analysis and context from the BBC's experts in the field. Presented by Anna Hill and Charlotte Smith,

    Updated daily

    Whole Programme

    5 Episodes

  • Dr Karl and the Naked Scientist

    Dr Karl and the Naked Scientist

    Last Updated:
    Mon, 28 May 12

    Average Duration:
    37 minutes

    Dr Karl and the Naked Scientist

    • Factual > Science & Nature

    Dr Chris Smith aka The Naked Scientist with the latest news from the world of science and Dr Karl answers listeners' science questions on Radio 5 live's Up All Night programme. Dr Chris Smith

    Updated weekly

    Programme Highlights

    137 Episodes

  • Your Place And Mine

    Your Place And Mine

    Last Updated:
    Sat, 26 May 12

    Average Duration:
    19 minutes

    Your Place And Mine

    • Factual > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment

    Anne-Marie McAleese and the team go in search of the weird and wonderful across Northern Ireland, reflecting local life and offering a guide to the things to see and do.

    Updated weekly

    Programme Highlights

    4 Episodes

  • Scotland Outdoors

    Scotland Outdoors

    Last Updated:
    Sat, 26 May 12

    Average Duration:
    26 minutes

    Scotland Outdoors

    • Factual > Travel
    • Factual > Science & Nature
    • Factual

    Your free, weekly, pocket guide to the Scottish outdoors. A flavour of the countryside in 15 minutes!

    Updated weekly

    Programme Highlights

    4 Episodes

  • One Planet

    One Planet

    Last Updated:
    Fri, 25 May 12

    Average Duration:
    17 minutes

    One Planet

    • Factual > Science & Nature
    • News

    One Planet covers environmental, development and agriculture stories, dealing with the impact of humankind on the natural world.

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    4 Episodes

  • Gardeners' Question Time

    Gardeners' Question Time

    Last Updated:
    Fri, 25 May 12

    Average Duration:
    41 minutes

    Gardeners' Question Time

    • Factual > Science & Nature
    • Factual > Homes & Gardens > Gardens

    As well as fresh ideas and inspiration, the Gardeners' Question Time podcast offers solutions to most of your gardening problems. Packed full of practical advice from a panel of expert gardeners

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    1 Episode

  • Science in Action

    Science in Action

    Last Updated:
    Thu, 24 May 12

    Average Duration:
    17 minutes

    Science in Action

    • Factual > Science & Nature

    The BBC World Service's weekly look at new developments in science from around the world.

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    4 Episodes

  • Material World

    Material World

    Last Updated:
    Thu, 24 May 12

    Average Duration:
    26 minutes

    Material World

    • Factual > Science & Nature

    Weekly science conversation, on everything from archaeology to zoology, from abacus to the antipodean rodent zyzomys, by way of meteorites. Presented by Quentin Cooper, and airing every Thursday, 4:30

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    91 Episodes

  • Best of Natural History Radio

    Best of Natural History Radio

    Last Updated:
    Thu, 24 May 12

    Average Duration:
    25 minutes

    Best of Natural History Radio

    • Factual > Science & Nature

    The BBC Natural History Unit produces a wide range of programmes that aim to immerse a listener in the wonder, surprise and importance that nature has to offer.

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    102 Episodes

  • CoP Show

    CoP Show

    Last Updated:
    Thu, 24 May 12

    Average Duration:
    28 minutes

    UK only

    CoP Show

    • Learning > Adults
    • Factual > Science & Nature > Science & Technology

    The first of its kind for the production community, the CoP Show from the BBC College of Production provides practical advice on all aspects of TV, radio and online production. In conversation with

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    82 Episodes

  • In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg

    In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg

    Last Updated:
    Thu, 24 May 12

    Average Duration:
    42 minutes

    In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg

    • Religion & Ethics
    • Factual > Science & Nature
    • Factual > History

    The history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas have on us today.

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    36 Episodes

  • Click

    Click

    Last Updated:
    Tue, 22 May 12

    Average Duration:
    25 minutes

    Click

    • Factual > Science & Nature

    How digital technology affects our lives around the world.

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    4 Episodes

  • Costing the Earth

    Costing the Earth

    Last Updated:
    Tue, 22 May 12

    Average Duration:
    27 minutes

    Costing the Earth

    • Factual > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment

    Man's effect on the environment, questioning accepted truths, challenging those in charge and reporting on progress towards improving the world. Presenters, Tom Heap and Dr Alice Roberts, travel

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    47 Episodes

  • Coast and Country

    Coast and Country

    Last Updated:
    Thu, 17 May 12

    Average Duration:
    24 minutes

    Coast and Country

    • Factual > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment

    Countryside magazine featuring people, walks and wildlife from rural Britain. Clare Balding’s ‘Ramblings’ and ‘Open Country’ with Matt Baker and Helen Mark join forces to bring you a weekly

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    89 Episodes

  • The Infinite Monkey Cage

    The Infinite Monkey Cage

    Last Updated:
    Mon, 26 Dec 11

    Average Duration:
    28 minutes

    The Infinite Monkey Cage

    • Factual > Science & Nature

    Award winning science/comedy chat with Brian Cox, Robin Ince and guests. Witty, irreverent look at the world according to science with physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince. New Series starting

    Updated weekly

    Whole Programme

    16 Episodes

  • In Our Time Archive: History

    In Our Time Archive: History

    Last Updated:
    Thu, 7 Jul 11

    Average Duration:
    42 minutes

    In Our Time Archive: History

    • Factual > History
    • Factual > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment
    • Factual

    The history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas have on us today.

    Updated occasionally

    Whole Programme

    131 Episodes

  • In Our Time Archive: Culture

    In Our Time Archive: Culture

    Last Updated:
    Wed, 29 Jun 11

    Average Duration:
    42 minutes

    In Our Time Archive: Culture

    • Factual
    • Factual > History
    • Factual > Science & Nature

    The history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas have on us today.

    Updated occasionally

    Whole Programme

    123 Episodes

  • In Our Time Archive: Science

    In Our Time Archive: Science

    Last Updated:
    Wed, 8 Jun 11

    Average Duration:
    42 minutes

    In Our Time Archive: Science

    • Factual > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment
    • Factual > Science & Nature > Science & Technology
    • Factual

    The history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas have on us today.

    Updated monthly

    Whole Programme

    150 Episodes

  • Walking Through Landscape

    Walking Through Landscape

    Last Updated:
    Mon, 22 Nov 10

    Average Duration:
    38 minutes

    Walking Through Landscape

    • Factual > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment

    Take a walk through Scotland's most intriguing landscapes. With Iain Stewart.

    Updated weekly

    Programme Highlights

    5 Episodes

  • A Brief  History of  Mathematics

    A Brief History of Mathematics

    Last Updated:
    Fri, 1 Oct 10

    Average Duration:
    14 minutes

    A Brief History of Mathematics

    • Factual > Science & Nature
    • Learning > Adults

    Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute podcasts that reveal the personalities behind the calculations from Newton to the

    Updated daily

    Whole Programme

    11 Episodes

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