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 and motivates them and what their discoveries might do for us.
Episodes available:
Indefinitely 
Tue, 14 May 13
Duration:
28 mins
How did Britain become an island? Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Sanjeev Gupta about how he went from studying the bottom of the Channel to guiding NASA's Mars Curiosity rover.
Tue, 7 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell on her ground-breaking work on obesity, her discovery of an experimental treatment for stroke, and her leadership of the UK's largest university.
Tue, 26 Feb 13
Duration:
28 mins
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Sue Ion about working in the nuclear industry in the dark decades post Chernobyl and about why nuclear power has to part of our energy mix for the future.
Tue, 19 Feb 13
Duration:
28 mins
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Alan Watson about his quest to discover the source of cosmic rays, particles with energies millions of times greater thany anything produced at CERN
Tue, 5 Feb 13
Duration:
28 mins
Jim Al-Khalili talks to breast cancer pioneer, Valerie Beral about her Million Women study and why she thinks a so-called 'vaccine' should be developed to prevent breast cancer.
Tue, 29 Jan 13
Duration:
28 mins
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Noel Sharkey about psychology and robots; and why he thinks artificial intelligence is a dangerous dream.
Mon, 21 Jan 13
Duration:
28 mins
Should babies under two watch TV? Developmental psychologist, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, discusses how with the right subject matter a TV screen can be better for a baby than a book.
Tue, 15 Jan 13
Duration:
28 mins
Robert Mair talks about tunnelling under Big Ben, fracking and engineering for the future.
Tue, 8 Jan 13
Duration:
28 mins
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Amoret Whitaker, one of only a handful of forensic entomologists in the UK, about how her detailed knowledge of insects helps the Police solve crimes.
Tue, 18 Dec 12
Duration:
28 mins
2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the sheep and why, in future, he would consider cloning humans.
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