After years in professional kitchens, Tim Hayward has long seen bacteria as the enemy. Now he’s starting to wonder if that’s quite right, but is wholly unprepared for what unfolds. Show more

Tim Hayward dives back into the bacterial realm and finds bacteria that make complex medicinal molecules, forest microbes at an urban daycare, and comes face-to-face with a phage. Show more

Tim Hayward finds unique and unfathomably precious communities of bacteria in unexpected places - and examines the earth’s past, present and future through microbial goggles. Show more