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Episode 23
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Available since Tuesday.
Jim Al-Khalili meets Antarctic scientist Lloyd Peck and discovers giant sea spiders.
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Frances Ashcroft
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Available since Tue, 15 May 2012.
Frances Ashcroft on a lifetime spent studying the link between blood sugar and insulin.
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James Lovelock
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Available since Tue, 8 May 2012.
James Lovelock on elocution lessons, defrosting hamsters and Gaia.
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Episode 20
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Available since Tue, 3 Apr 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to the forensic scientist Angela Gallop.
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Tejinder Virdee
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Available since Mon, 26 Mar 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to physicist Tejinder Virdee about the search for the Higgs boson.
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John Lawton
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Available since Tue, 20 Mar 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to ecologist John Lawton.
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Martin Rees
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Available since Tue, 13 Mar 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili enters the multiverse with the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees.
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Iain Chalmers
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Available since Tue, 6 Mar 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to pioneering health services researcher, Iain Chalmers.
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Tony Ryan
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Available since Tue, 28 Feb 2012.
What is the future of nanotechnology? Chemist Tony Ryan shows some of its surprising uses.
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Chris Stringer
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Available since Tue, 21 Feb 2012.
Jim Al-Khalili meets paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer to find who our ancestors were.
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Robin Murray
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Available since Tue, 14 Feb 2012.
Psychiatrist Robin Murray on why he has changed his mind about the cause of schizophrenia.
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Colin Pillinger
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Available since Wed, 15 Feb 2012.
Prof Jim Al-Khalili talks to planetary scientist Colin Pillinger about life on Mars.
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Lord Robert Winston
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Available since Fri, 13 Jan 2012.
Lord Robert Winston on IVF, the House of Lords and scientists' ethical responsibilty.
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Tim Hunt
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Available since Wed, 15 Feb 2012.
Prof Jim al-Khalili talks to Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Sir Tim Hunt.
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Uta Frith
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Available since Wed, 15 Feb 2012.
Jim meets psychologist Prof Uta Frith, whose work changed how we view brain disorders.
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John Sulston
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Available since Tue, 6 Dec 2011.
Jim al-Khalili talks to biologist John Sulston.
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Nicky Clayton
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Available since Tue, 29 Nov 2011.
Nicky Clayton talks to Prof Jim Al-Khalili about her work on the intelligence of birds.
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Molly Stevens
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Available since Wed, 15 Feb 2012.
Jim al-Khalili talks to a scientist who grows human bones in a test tube, Molly Stevens.
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Colin Blakemore
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Available since Tue, 15 Nov 2011.
Neuroscientist Colin Blakemore talks to Jim Al-Khalili about his life and work.
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Sir Michael Marmot
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Available since Tue, 8 Nov 2011.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Professor Sir Michael Marmot about his work on how stress kills.
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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Available since Tue, 1 Nov 2011.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
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Steven Pinker
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Available since Fri, 4 Nov 2011.
Inside the mind of science writer and cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker.
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Paul Nurse
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Available since Fri, 4 Nov 2011.
Jim meets Paul Nurse, Nobel prize-winning geneticist and President of the Royal Society.
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