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Series 28

The Scale of Life (or were dinosaurs just too big?)

Duration: 42 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Dave Gorman, Susie Maidment and Tori Herridge as they pitch big creatures v small creatures in the battle for survival. Show more

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Series 17

Episode 3: Antibiotics

Duration: 38 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Chris Addison, chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies and Professor Martha Clokie to look at the future for antibiotics. Show more

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Series 17

Episode 4: Teenage Brain

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Rory Bremner, Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Prof Matthew Cobb to discover the science behind why teenagers are so teenagery. Show more

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Series 17

Episode 5: How Animals Behave

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Rufus Hound, Lucy Cooke and Prof Rory Wilson to discover how we really learn about animal behaviour and some of the mistakes we've made. Show more

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Series 18

Episode 2: Big Data

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by Danny Wallace, Hannah Fry and Timandra Harkness to ask: how big is big data, and what wisdom lies hidden within it? Show more

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Series 18

Episode 3: Invasion

Duration: 41 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox, Robin Ince and guests look at the terrifying results of invasion. Not of the little green men kind, but more the little green plant, or even little green bug kind. Show more

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Series 18

Episode 4: Immune System

Duration: 41 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Shappi Khorsandi and Prof Dan Davis and Prof Steve Jones to look at our amazingly complex and clever Immune system. Show more

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Series 21

Conspiracy Theories

Duration: 33 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Shazia Mirza, Dr David Robert Grimes and Prof Karen Douglas to look at conspiracy theories. Is fiction easier to believe than fact? Show more

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Series 21

Coral Reefs

Duration: 46 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by Marcus Brigstocke and marine biologists Prof Callum Roberts and Dr Heather Koldewey to look at the magic and wonder of coral. Show more

Duration: 38 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Ed Byrne, Niamh Nic Daeid and Adam Rutherford as they explore the science of fire and how it has impacted the evolution of life. Show more

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Series 21

Quantum Worlds

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Katy Brand and physicists Sean Carroll and Jim Al-khalili as they explore our strange and bizarre Quantum world. Show more

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Series 21

UFO special

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince host a close encounter of the 1st kind. They are joined by comedian Lucy Beaumont, to ask if UFOs and aliens have visited Earth? Show more

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Series 22

The Human Brain

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by US talk show host Conan O'Brien and neuroscientists David Eagleman and Gina Rippon to look at our plastic, adaptable brains. Show more

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Series 11

Episode 6: Serendipity

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Lee Mack, author Simon Singh and chemist Andrea Sella to look at how some of the serendipitous scientific discoveries came about. Show more

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Series 15

Episode 5: The Human Story: How We Got Here and Why We Survived.

Duration: 41 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Ross Noble, Prof Danielle Schreve and Prof Chris Stringer to look at the history of modern humans and how we came to be here. Show more

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Series 16

Episode 2: Astronaut Special

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince present an astronaut special. Every member of the panel has travelled to space, including Apollo 16's Charlie Duke, the 10th person to walk on the moon. Show more

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Series 16

Episode 3: Oxygen: A Matter of Life and Death

Duration: 39 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince dabble with some chemistry, as they talk about the life and death properties of oxygen: the toxic molecule we cannot live without. Show more

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Series 17

Episode 6: Volcanoes

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by volcano experts Tamsin Mather and Clive Oppenheimer and comedian Jo Brand to look at the science of volcanoes. Show more