The Life Scientific Episodes Available now

Sir Charles Godfray on parasitic wasps and the race to feed nine billion people
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work.

Jonathan Van-Tam on Covid communication and the power of football analogies
Sir Jonathan Van-Tam discusses his work around infectious diseases and Covid-19.

Michael Wooldridge on AI and sentient robots
Michael Wooldridge, professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, talks AI.

Mercedes Maroto-Valer on making carbon dioxide useful
Jim Al-Khalili chats to a 'solutions scientist' about solving our CO2 problem.

Sir Harry Bhadeshia on the choreography of metals
Sir Harry Bhadeshia on his work in metallurgy and choreographing crystalline structures.

Cathie Sudlow on data in healthcare
Jim Al-Khalili discusses population-wide health research with Professor Cathie Sudlow.

Sir Michael Berry on phenomena in physics' borderlands
Professor Jim Al-Khalili meets one of Britain's greatest physicists, Sir Michael Berry

Professor Sarah Harper on how population change is remodelling societies.
Jim Al-Khalili talks to Professor Sarah Harper about societal ageing and falling fertility

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on human evolution and parenthood
Jim Al-Khalili discusses monkey infanticide and human parenting with Sarah Hrdy.

Edward Witten on 'the theory of everything'
Physicist Edward Witten on M-Theory, the leading contender for a 'theory of everything'.