BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Home Planet

Discussion & Talk

Factual: Science & Nature

Programme answering listeners' questions about planet Earth and our impact upon it

Home Planet: 02/03/2010

02/03/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Home Planet, 02/03/2010

The series kicks off with a revelation about how our minds may be controlled by parasites.

With Richard Daniel. The new series kicks off with a revelation about how our minds might be controlled by parasites in our brains. Are we really just vehicles for their survival?

The new series kicks off with a remarkable revelation about how our minds might be controlled by parasites within our brains. Are we really just vehicles for their survival? Inundation by the sea is often portrayed as the end to any agricultural soil. Yet many parts of the world successfully grow all sorts of crops on land reclaimed from the sea. Is the salination really as serious as it is made out to be? Why does wood buried deep inside a living tree emerge in so many different colours, and do hibernating animals have some mechanism to stop their limbs seizing up after months of inactivity? Why, too, is the Richter scale logarithmic and is there something special about logs that allows us to understand them more easily?

Join Richard Daniel and his guests - ecologist Dr Lynn Dicks of Cambridge University, forest ecologist Dr Nick Brown of Oxford University and Professor Philip Stott, an environmental scientist from the University of London.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Home Planet

02/03/2010

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4