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Plant and flower shapes

How do flowers get their shape? Bridget Kendall explores nature's mysteries.

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The vanishing world of our ancestors

Our ancestors can teach us a thing or two. Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.

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The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi

Chocolate? Furniture? Clothes? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss novel uses for fungi.

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Silence

What can silence mean? Bridget Kendall and guests contemplate a lack of noise.

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Peering into Space

Cutting-edge space science from the 2013 Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.

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Fragility

Bridget Kendall and her guests discuss fragility, in humans and in ecosystems.

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Crystals

Bridget Kendall and her guests shine a light on crystals, both scientific and artistic.

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Dust and Ash

Good or bad? Useful or just an annoyance? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss dust and ash.

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Second Chances

How different are our second attempts at something compared to the first time?

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Tracking and Surveillance

Bridget Kendall and guests explore the shadowy world of tracking and surveillance.

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The Forum in Beijing: Digital China

Does the explosion of social media in China empower the individual or the state?

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Ice

Marvel at the frozen world of the polar ice caps with Bridget Kendall and guests.

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Hands

Do our hands mark us out as human? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.

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Modern Alchemy

Transforming waste into valuable products, with Bridget Kendall and guests.

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Counterfeiting

Bridget Kendall asks why there are such lucrative markets in fake art and fake medicines.

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Zooming Out

Bridget invites listeners to zoom out into space, to gain new perspectives on reality.

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Hair, Fur and Cilia

Bridget Kendall and her guests explore the slender filaments that are essential to life.

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Outcasts: The Forum at Risor Festival, Norway

What is it like to be on the edge of Europe? And do modern societies create new outcasts?

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Solitude

When being alone is a blessing, and when it is a blight.

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Democracy and the Arts in South Africa

What role can art play in the political discourse of post-apartheid South Africa?

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Time to Rethink What Is 'Normal'?

Where is the dividing line between normal behaviour and a mental health problem?

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Bubbles

The curious properties of bubbles in the oceans, in our bodies and in art.

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Multilingualism

The advantages and disadvantages of speaking more than one language.

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Challenges of Nanoscience

Transforming biosciences with particles just a few billionths of a metre across.

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Aliens

Bridget Kendall and guests discuss alien plants and animals, alien beings and alien dreams

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Natural Navigation

Spatial processing in the brain, bird migration and natural navigational clues for all.

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Lines

How a spark of inspiration is transformed into a line on canvas or a line of verse.

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Self-Assembly

Bridget Kendall and guests explore how cells, molecules and robots achieve complexity.

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Adventures in 2D: Graphene and Beyond

What is the future of graphene and other two-dimensional materials?

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Clay

The joys and perils of porcelain, kaolin and volcanic soils.

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