The Life Scientific Episodes Episode guide
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Dame Ann Dowling
Jim Al-Khalili discusses silent aircraft with Cambridge engineer, Dame Ann Dowling.
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Martin Siegert
Jim Al-Khalili goes under the Antarctic ice with glaciologist Martin Siegert.
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Pat Wolseley
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Pat Wolseley talks about her obsession with lichen.
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Steve Jones
Geneticist Steve Jones lives life in the slow lane, studying snails.
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John Pickett
Jim Al-Khalili meets John Pickett, whose recent work on GM wheat caused a public debate.
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Robert May
Jim al-Khalili talks to the former chief scientific advisor Robert May about public trust.
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Barbara Sahakian
Jim meets neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian to discuss her work with Alzheimer's disease.
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Lloyd Peck
Jim Al-Khalili meets Antarctic scientist Lloyd Peck and discovers giant sea spiders.
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Frances Ashcroft
Frances Ashcroft on a lifetime spent studying the link between blood sugar and insulin.
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James Lovelock
James Lovelock on elocution lessons, defrosting hamsters and Gaia.
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Angela Gallop
Jim Al-Khalili talks to the forensic scientist Angela Gallop.
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Tejinder Virdee
Jim Al-Khalili talks to physicist Tejinder Virdee about the search for the Higgs boson.
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John Lawton
Jim Al-Khalili talks to ecologist John Lawton.
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Martin Rees
Jim Al-Khalili enters the multiverse with the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees.
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Iain Chalmers
Jim Al-Khalili talks to pioneering health services researcher, Iain Chalmers.
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Tony Ryan
What is the future of nanotechnology? Chemist Tony Ryan shows some of its surprising uses.
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Chris Stringer
Jim Al-Khalili meets paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer to find who our ancestors were.
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Robin Murray
Psychiatrist Robin Murray on why he has changed his mind about the cause of schizophrenia.
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Colin Pillinger
Prof Jim Al-Khalili talks to planetary scientist Colin Pillinger about life on Mars.
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Lord Robert Winston
Lord Robert Winston on IVF, the House of Lords and scientists' ethical responsibilty.
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Tim Hunt
Prof Jim al-Khalili talks to Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Sir Tim Hunt.
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Uta Frith
Jim meets psychologist Prof Uta Frith, whose work changed how we view brain disorders.
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John Sulston
Jim al-Khalili talks to biologist John Sulston.
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Nicky Clayton
Nicky Clayton talks to Prof Jim Al-Khalili about her work on the intelligence of birds.
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Molly Stevens
Jim al-Khalili talks to a scientist who grows human bones in a test tube, Molly Stevens.
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Colin Blakemore
Neuroscientist Colin Blakemore talks to Jim Al-Khalili about his life and work.
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Sir Michael Marmot
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Professor Sir Michael Marmot about his work on how stress kills.
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Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jim Al-Khalili talks to astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
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Steven Pinker
Inside the mind of science writer and cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker.
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Paul Nurse
Jim meets Paul Nurse, Nobel prize-winning geneticist and President of the Royal Society.
