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Talking Books Historical novelist Tracy Chevalier on why she wants to bring the past to life

Discovery

Discovery Episode guide

  1. The Age We Made - Part 2

    Are humans creating a new geological epoch through climate change and fossil fuels?

    First broadcast: 29 Oct 2012

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    over a year left to play

  2. End of Drug Discovery

    Speeding up the drug development process to treat the major diseases facing us

    First broadcast: 15 Oct 2012

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  3. End of Drug Discovery

    The long and expensive struggle to get medicines to market

    First broadcast: 08 Oct 2012

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  4. 10/06/2013

    Explorations in the world of science.

    First broadcast: 10 Jun 2013

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  5. 03/06/2013

    Explorations in the world of science.

    First broadcast: 03 Jun 2013

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  6. 27/05/2013

    Explorations in the world of science.

    First broadcast: 27 May 2013

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  7. Deep Sea Vents

    Are newly discovered deep ocean ecosystems threatened by deep sea mining?

    First broadcast: 20 May 2013

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  8. After Sandy

    How can science protect New York from future super storms?

    First broadcast: 13 May 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  9. The Crying Game

    Why do we cry and why are emotional tears a uniquely human trait?

    First broadcast: 06 May 2013

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  10. A Trip Around Mars - Part Two

    Canyons, craters and mountains: The spectacular Martian terrain carved by swathes of water

    First broadcast: 29 Apr 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  11. A Trip Around Mars with Kevin Fong - Part One

    The alien mountains, canyons and craters that inspire scientists and writers

    First broadcast: 22 Apr 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  12. Noel Sharkey

    Jim Al-Khalili talks to roboticist and psychologist, Noel Sharkey.

    First broadcast: 15 Apr 2013

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  13. Annette Karmiloff-Smith on toddlers and TV

    Should babies under two watch TV? Jim talks to psychologist Annette Karmiloff-Smith.

    First broadcast: 13 Apr 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  14. Premiership Science

    Like football, science is an international endeavour complete with its own stars.

    First broadcast: 01 Apr 2013

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  15. What If... We could stay young forever? 3/3

    Peter Bowes concludes his exploration of the drive to live longer by looking at diet.

    First broadcast: 18 Mar 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  16. What If... We could stay young forever? 2/3

    Peter Bowes asks if exercise and lifestyle changes hold the key to staying young.

    First broadcast: 11 Mar 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  17. What If... We could stay young forever? 1/3

    Peter Bowes explores how science and lifestyle could hold the promise to staying young.

    First broadcast: 04 Mar 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  18. What If... We could all become cyborgs?

    Dr Andrew Holding meets some of the people straddling the line between man and machine.

    First broadcast: 25 Feb 2013

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  19. Sexual Nature 3/3

    Life’s many paths to being female or male: in humans, komodo dragons and transexual fish

    First broadcast: 18 Feb 2013

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  20. Sexual Nature 2/3

    How did sex begin and why do some many species keep doing it?

    First broadcast: 11 Feb 2013

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  21. Sexual Nature 1/3

    Frolicking fossils and suggestive theories - the evolutionary history of sex

    First broadcast: 04 Feb 2013

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  22. Quantum Biology

    What is quantum biology and why is it important?

    First broadcast: 28 Jan 2013

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  23. The ENCODE Project

    Adam Rutherford reports on the recent discovery that much of our DNA is not useless junk.

    First broadcast: 21 Jan 2013

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  24. John Gurdon

    2012 Nobel Prize winner, John Gurdon, on cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep

    First broadcast: 14 Jan 2013

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  25. Jared Diamond

    Jared Diamond on gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea

    First broadcast: 07 Jan 2013

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  26. The Life Scientific: Andrea Sella - Chemist

    Jim Al-Khalili meets chemist and science showman Andrea Sella.

    First broadcast: 31 Dec 2012

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  27. Why do women outlive men

    Why do women live longer than men? Dr Yan Wong explores new theories on gender and ageing

    First broadcast: 24 Dec 2012

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  28. Piltdown Man

    Piltdown Man – could such a shocking case of scientific fraud happen again?

    First broadcast: 17 Dec 2012

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  29. Particle Physics

    What are particle physicists doing after finding the Higgs boson?

    First broadcast: 10 Dec 2012

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  30. Last Man, First Scientist on the Moon

    An interview with the only geologist to explore the moon's surface, Harrison Schmitt

    First broadcast: 03 Dec 2012

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    over a year left to play

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