蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 - The Life Scientific

The Life Scientific Podcast

Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future

Updated: weekly

Episodes available: indefinitely

Nigel Shadbolt on the worldwide web

Tue 14 Apr 2015

Sir Nigel Shadbolt talks about artificial intelligence and open data with Jim Al-Khalili.
Stephanie Shirley on computer coding

Tue 7 Apr 2015

Software pioneer Dame Stephanie Shirley talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Jane Francis on Antarctica

Tue 31 Mar 2015

The director of the British Antarctic Survey, Jane Francis talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on teenage brains

Tue 24 Mar 2015

Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her research on the teenage brain
Matt Taylor on the Rosetta space mission

Tue 17 Mar 2015

Matt Taylor talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the Rosetta comet mission.
John O'Keefe on memory

Tue 10 Mar 2015

2014 Nobel Prize-winner John O'Keefe talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
Dave Goulson on bees

Tue 11 Nov 2014

Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Dave Goulson about his obsession with bees.
Dame Sally Davies on public health

Tue 4 Nov 2014

Jim al-Khalili talks to Dame Sally Davies about looking after the nation's health.
Richard Fortey on fossils

Tue 28 Oct 2014

Jim Al-Khalili meets Mr Trilobite, the palaeontologist and naturalist Richard Fortey.
Margaret Boden on artificial intelligence

Tue 21 Oct 2014

Jim Al-Khalili talks to Maggie Boden, a world authority in the field of AI.
Chris Toumazou on inventing medical devices

Tue 14 Oct 2014

Chris Toumazou talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the science of invention.
Elspeth Garman on crystallography

Tue 7 Oct 2014

Jim Al-Khalili talks to Oxford crystallographer Elspeth Garman.
Jackie Akhavan on explosives

Tue 30 Sep 2014

Jackie Akhavan talks about the ethical issues of working on explosives used in war.
Brian Cox on quantum mechanics

Tue 23 Sep 2014

Brian Cox, physicist and media star, talks fame and quantum mechanics with Jim Al-Khalili.
Carol Robinson on chemistry

Tue 22 Jul 2014

Carol Robinson on her journey from lab technician to professor of chemistry.
Jeremy Farrar on fighting viruses

Tue 15 Jul 2014

Jim Al-Khalili in conversation with Dr Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust.
Zoe Shipton on fracking

Tue 8 Jul 2014

Jim Al-Khalili discusses earthquakes and fracking for gas with geologist Zoe Shipton.
Chris Llewellyn Smith on nuclear fusion

Tue 1 Jul 2014

Chris Llewellyn Smith on quarks, bosons and running the biggest experiments in history.
Sandy Knapp

Tue 24 Jun 2014

Botanist Sandy Knapp talks about her adventures collecting plants in South America.
Chris Lintott

Tue 17 Jun 2014

Chris Lintott tells Jim Al Khalili about crowd sourced astronomy and Galaxy Zoo.
Janet Hemingway

Tue 10 Jun 2014

Janet Hemingway on malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance, with Jim Al-Khalili.
Professor Sir Michael Rutter

Tue 3 Jun 2014

Jim Al-Khalili meets child psychiatrist Prof Sir Michael Rutter.
Julia Slingo

Tue 8 Apr 2014

Jim Al-Khalili talks to Dame Julia Slingo, the chief scientist at the Met Office.
Veronica van Heyningen

Tue 1 Apr 2014

Jim Al-Khalili talks to Veronica van Heyningen about the gene that builds the eye.
Alf Adams

Tue 25 Mar 2014

Alf Adams remembers his small idea that changed the world, with Jim Al-Khalili.
Anne Glover

Tue 18 Mar 2014

Anne Glover talks to Jim Al-Khalili about glow-in-the-dark bacteria and advising ministers
Mark Miodownik

Tue 11 Mar 2014

Mark Miodownik talks nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials with Jim Al-Khalili.
Vikram Patel

Tue 4 Mar 2014

Jim Al-Khalili discusses global mental health with psychiatrist Prof Vikram Patel.
Sue Black

Tue 25 Feb 2014

Jim Al-Khalili talks to forensic scientist Sue Black about identifying human bodies.
Peter Higgs

Tue 18 Feb 2014

Peter Higgs opens up to Jim Al-Khalili about the real story of the Higgs boson.