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Brainwaves

Series 4

Episode 2: The Anatomy of a Stroke

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Available for over a year

Pennie Latin explores what happens inside the brain during a stroke and discovers the advances being made to reduce the third most common cause of death in Scotland. Show more

Brainwaves

Series 4

Episode 3: Professor Iain Stewart

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Available for over a year

Pennie Latin meets Professor Iain Stewart of Plymouth University to discover more about modern geoscience in a programme recorded on one of Edinburgh's seven dormant volcanoes. Show more

Brainwaves

Series 4

Episode 4: Urban Mining

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Available for over a year

Pennie Latin explores how gold is being recovered from smartphones and platinum from road sweepings, both in seams as rich as can be mined. Show more

Brainwaves

Series 4

Episode 5: Antimicrobial Resistance

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Available for over a year

Pennie Latin explores the front lines of Scottish science and healthcare's battle against superbugs that are already resistant to the antibiotics of last resort. Show more

Brainwaves

Series 4

Episode 7: Soundscape Ecology

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Available for over a year

Pennie Latin talks to those who have spent years recording the evolving sounds of our planet and asks what we can learn about how it has changed according to what we hear. Show more

Brainwaves

Series 4

Episode 9: The Moon

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Available for over a year

Pennie Latin looks at the race to return to the moon, hearing from people who have orbited the moon and those who are planning to return to it to form a human colony. Show more

Brainwaves

Series 4

Episode 8: Professor Richard Morris

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Available for over a year

Pennie Latin talks to neuroscientist Professor Richard Morris, winner of The Brain Prize, about how the brain and memory create identity. Show more

Brainwaves

Series 4

Episode 10: Fracking

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Available for over a year

Pennie Latin explores the science of fracking - hydraulic fracturing - shale rock for oil and gas in Scotland's Midland Valley. Show more

Brainwaves

Series 4

Episode 11: Professor Vincent Janik

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Available for over a year

Pennie Latin explores dolphin communication with Professor Vincent Janik, director of the Scottish Oceans Institute at St Andrews University. Show more

Brainwaves

Series 4

Episode 12: Professor Lorna Dawson

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Available for over a year

Pennie Latin meets soil scientist Professor Lorna Dawson to hear how her analysis of soil geoforensics has helped solved crimes in Scotland and around the world. Show more