Number
|
Name
|
Date
|
Topic
|
Programme page
|
1
|
Paul Nurse
|
11 October 2011
|
Biology, winning the Nobel Prize and being President of the Royal Society
|
[6]
|
2
|
Steven Pinker
|
18 October 2011
|
Science writing and cognitive psychology
|
[9]
|
3
|
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
|
25 October 2011
|
Astrophyics and not winning the Nobel Prize
|
[10]
|
4
|
Michael Marmot
|
1 November 2011
|
How stress kills
|
[11]
|
5
|
Colin Blakemore
|
8 November 2011
|
Neuroscience
|
[12]
|
6
|
Molly Stevens
|
15 November 2011
|
Growing human bones in a test tube
|
[13]
|
7
|
Nicola Clayton
|
22 November 2011
|
The intelligence of birds
|
[14]
|
8
|
John Sulston
|
29 November 2011
|
Biology
|
[15]
|
9
|
Uta Frith
|
6 December 2011
|
Changing how we view brain disorders
|
[16]
|
10
|
Tim Hunt
|
13 December 2011
|
Molecular biology and winning the Nobel Prize
|
[17]
|
11
|
Robert Winston
|
20 December 2011
|
IVF, the House of Lords and scientists' ethical responsibility
|
[18]
|
12
|
Colin Pillinger
|
27 December 2011
|
Life on Mars
|
[19]
|
13
|
Robin Murray
|
7 February 2012
|
The cause of schizophrenia
|
[20]
|
14
|
Chris Stringer
|
14 February 2012
|
Paleoanthropology and who our ancestors were
|
[21]
|
15
|
Tony Ryan
|
21 February 2012
|
The future of nanotechnology
|
[22]
|
16
|
Iain Chalmers
|
28 February 2012
|
Health services
|
[23]
|
17
|
Martin Rees
|
6 March 2012
|
The multiverse
|
[24]
|
18
|
John Lawton
|
13 March 2012
|
Ecology
|
[25]
|
19
|
Tejinder Virdee
|
20 March 2012
|
The search for the Higgs boson
|
[26]
|
20
|
Angela Gallop
|
27 March 2012
|
Forensic science
|
[27]
|
21
|
James Lovelock
|
8 May 2012
|
The Gaia hypothesis, microwave ovens
|
[28]
|
22
|
Frances Ashcroft
|
15 May 2012
|
The link between blood sugar and insulin
|
[29]
|
23
|
Lloyd Peck
|
22 May 2012
|
Giant sea spiders
|
[30]
|
24
|
Barbara Sahakian
|
29 May 2012
|
Neurotransmitters
|
[31]
|
25
|
Bob May
|
5 June 2012
|
Public trust
|
[32]
|
26
|
John Pickett
|
12 June 2012
|
GM wheat
|
[33]
|
27
|
Steve Jones
|
7 August 2012
|
Snail studies
|
[34]
|
28
|
Pat Wolseley
|
14 August 2012
|
Her obsession with lichen
|
[35]
|
29
|
Martin Siegert
|
21 August 2012
|
Under the Antarctic ice
|
[36]
|
30
|
Ann Dowling
|
28 August 2012
|
Silent aircraft
|
[37]
|
31
|
Richard Dawkins
|
4 September 2012
|
Being a biologist and author
|
[38]
|
32
|
Andrea Sella
|
11 September 2012
|
Why my chemistry demonstrations are filling theatres
|
[39]
|
33
|
David Nutt
|
18 September 2012
|
Research into drugs and the brain
|
[40]
|
34
|
Sunetra Gupta
|
25 September 2012
|
Being a scientist and novelist
|
[41]
|
35
|
Mark Walport
|
2 October 2012
|
Being Government Chief Scientific Advisor
|
[42]
|
36
|
Hugh Montgomery
|
9 October 2012
|
The gene for fitness
|
[43]
|
37
|
Monica Grady
|
16 October 2012
|
Life on Mars
|
[44]
|
38
|
Jared Diamond
|
4 December 2012
|
Gall bladders, global history and the birds of Papua New Guinea
|
[45]
|
39
|
John Gurdon
|
18 December 2012
|
Cloning a frog decades before Dolly the Sheep
|
[46]
|
40
|
Amoret Whitaker
|
8 January 2013
|
Insects and their role in helping solve crimes
|
[47]
|
41
|
Robert Mair
|
15 January 2013
|
Tunnelling under Big Ben, Crossrail and engineering for the future
|
[48]
|
42
|
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
|
22 January 2013
|
Should babies under two watch TV?
|
[49]
|
43
|
Noel Sharkey
|
29 January 2013
|
Robotics and psychology
|
[50]
|
44
|
Valerie Beral
|
5 February 2013
|
Breast cancer
|
[51]
|
45
|
Alan Watson
|
19 February 2013
|
His quest to discover the source of cosmic rays
|
[52]
|
46
|
Sue Ion
|
26 February 2013
|
Working in the nuclear industry
|
[53]
|
47
|
Nancy Rothwell
|
7 May 2013
|
Neuroscience
|
[54]
|
48
|
Sanjeev Gupta
|
14 May 2013
|
What links the English Channel to valleys on Mars?
|
[55]
|
49
|
John Krebs
|
21 May 2013
|
Birds, foot and mouth disease and badgers
|
[56]
|
50
|
Linda Partridge
|
28 May 2013
|
The science of longevity
|
[57]
|
51
|
Athene Donald
|
4 June 2013
|
The physics behind everyday stuff
|
[58]
|
52
|
Ewan Birney
|
11 June 2013
|
Deciphering the human genome and junk DNA
|
[59]
|
53
|
David Spiegelhalter
|
18 June 2013
|
Risk and uncertainty
|
[60]
|
54
|
Elizabeth Stokoe
|
25 June 2013
|
Studying real-life conversations
|
[61]
|
55
|
Russell Foster
|
20 August 2013
|
Circadian rhythms and jet lag
|
[62]
|
56
|
Joanna Haigh
|
27 August 2013
|
Climate
|
[63]
|
57
|
Mark Lythgoe
|
3 September 2013
|
Medical imaging and mountain climbing
|
[64]
|
58
|
Michael Benton
|
10 September 2013
|
Digging up dinosaurs in remote places
|
[65]
|
59
|
Ian Stewart
|
17 September 2013
|
Sci-fi and popularising maths
|
[66]
|
60
|
Sophie Scott
|
24 September 2013
|
The science of laughter
|
[67]
|
61
|
Jenny Graves
|
1 October 2013
|
Kangaroos and the death of the Y chromosome
|
[68]
|
62
|
Wendy Hall
|
8 October 2013
|
The development of the web
|
[69]
|
63
|
Peter Higgs
|
18 February 2014
|
The real story of the Higgs boson
|
[70]
|
64
|
Sue Black
|
25 February 2014
|
Identifying human bodies
|
[71]
|
65
|
Vikram Patel
|
4 March 2014
|
Global mental health
|
[72]
|
66
|
Mark Miodownik
|
11 March 2014
|
Nuclear weapons, 3D printers and smart materials
|
[73]
|
67
|
Anne Glover
|
18 March 2014
|
Glow-in-the-dark bacteria and advising ministers
|
[74]
|
68
|
Alf Adams
|
25 March 2014
|
His small idea that changed the world (the strained-layer quantum-well laser)
|
[75]
|
69
|
Veronica van Heyningen
|
1 April 2014
|
The gene that builds the eye
|
[76]
|
70
|
Julia Slingo
|
8 April 2014
|
Being chief scientist at the Met Office
|
[77]
|
71
|
Michael Rutter
|
3 June 2014
|
Child psychiatry
|
[78]
|
72
|
Janet Hemingway
|
10 June 2014
|
Malaria and the coming of insecticide resistance
|
[79]
|
73
|
Chris Lintott
|
17 June 2014
|
Crowd sourced astronomy and Galaxy Zoo
|
[80]
|
74
|
Sandra Knapp
|
24 June 2014
|
Her adventures collecting plants in South America
|
[81]
|
75
|
Christopher Llewellyn Smith
|
1 July 2014
|
Nuclear fusion
|
[82]
|
76
|
Zoe Shipton
|
8 July 2014
|
Fracking
|
[83]
|
77
|
Jeremy Farrar
|
15 July 2014
|
Fighting viruses
|
[84]
|
78
|
Carol Robinson
|
22 July 2014
|
Chemistry
|
[85]
|
79
|
Brian Cox
|
23 September 2014
|
Quantum mechanics
|
[86]
|
80
|
Jackie Akhavan
|
30 September 2014
|
Explosives
|
[87]
|
81
|
Elspeth Garman
|
7 October 2014
|
Crystallography
|
[88]
|
82
|
Chris Toumazou
|
14 October 2014
|
Inventing medical devices
|
[89]
|
83
|
Margaret Boden
|
21 October 2014
|
Artificial intelligence
|
[90]
|
84
|
Richard Fortey
|
28 October 2014
|
Fossils
|
[91]
|
85
|
Sally Davies
|
4 November 2014
|
Public health
|
[92]
|
86
|
Dave Goulson
|
11 November 2014
|
Bees
|
[93]
|
87
|
John O'Keefe
|
10 March 2015
|
Memory
|
[94]
|
88
|
Matt Taylor
|
17 March 2015
|
The Rosetta space mission
|
[95]
|
89
|
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
|
24 March 2015
|
Teenage brains
|
[96]
|
90
|
Jane Francis
|
31 March 2015
|
Antarctica
|
[97]
|
91
|
Steve Shirley
|
7 April 2015
|
Computer coding
|
[98]
|
92
|
Nigel Shadbolt
|
14 April 2015
|
The World Wide Web
|
[99]
|
93
|
Susan Jebb
|
21 April 2015
|
Nutrition
|
[100]
|
94
|
Anil Seth
|
16 June 2015
|
Consciousness
|
[101]
|
95
|
Kate Jones
|
23 June 2015
|
Bats and biodiversity
|
[102]
|
96
|
Henry Marsh
|
30 June 2015
|
Brain surgery
|
[103]
|
97
|
Dorothy Bishop
|
7 July 2015
|
Language disorders
|
[104]
|
98
|
Carlos Frenk
|
14 July 2015
|
Dark matter
|
[105]
|
99
|
Niamh Nic Daéid
|
21 July 2015
|
Forensic science
|
[106]
|
100
|
E. O. Wilson
|
28 July 2015
|
Ants and evolution
|
[107]
|
101
|
Geoff Palmer
|
4 August 2015
|
Brewing
|
[108]
|
102
|
Carol Black
|
6 October 2015
|
Public health
|
[109]
|
103
|
Danielle George
|
13 October 2015
|
Electronics
|
[110]
|
104
|
Robert Plomin
|
20 October 2015
|
The genetics of intelligence
|
[111]
|
105
|
Patrick Vallance
|
3 November 2015
|
Pharmaceuticals
|
[112]
|
106
|
Kathy Willis
|
10 November 2015
|
Botany
|
[113]
|
107
|
Paul Younger
|
17 November 2015
|
Energy for the future
|
[114]
|
108
|
Peter Piot
|
9 February 2016
|
Tackling ebola and HIV
|
[115]
|
109
|
Naomi Climer
|
16 February 2016
|
Engineering
|
[116]
|
110
|
Nick Lane
|
23 February 2016
|
The origin of life on earth
|
[117]
|
111
|
George Davey Smith
|
1 March 2016
|
Health inequalities
|
[118]
|
112
|
Venki Ramakrishnan
|
8 March 2016
|
Ribosomes
|
[119]
|
113
|
Helen Sharman
|
15 March 2016
|
Being an astronaut
|
[120]
|
114
|
Carolyn Roberts
|
22 March 2016
|
Flood control
|
[121]
|
115
|
Lawrence Krauss
|
31 May 2016
|
Dark energy
|
[122]
|
116
|
Marcus du Sautoy
|
7 June 2016
|
Mathematics
|
[123]
|
117
|
Sheila Rowan
|
14 June 2016
|
Gravitational waves
|
[124]
|
118
|
Nick Davies
|
21 June 2016
|
Cuckoos
|
[125]
|
119
|
Hazel Rymer
|
28 June 2016
|
Volcanoes
|
[126]
|
120
|
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
|
5 July 2016
|
Memory
|
[127]
|
121
|
Georgina Mace
|
12 July 2016
|
Threatened species
|
[128]
|
122
|
Trevor Cox
|
19 July 2016
|
Sound
|
[129]
|
123
|
Ian Wilmut
|
4 October 2016
|
Dolly the Sheep
|
[130]
|
124
|
Frans de Waal
|
11 October 2016
|
Chimpanzees
|
[131]
|
125
|
Lynne Boddy
|
15 November 2016
|
Fungi
|
[132]
|
126
|
Roger Penrose
|
22 November 2016
|
Black holes, quantum mechanics, consciousness
|
[133]
|
127
|
Julia Higgins
|
29 November 2016
|
Polymers
|
[134]
|
128
|
Richard Morris
|
6 December 2016
|
How we know where we are
|
[135]
|
129
|
Neil deGrasse Tyson
|
20 December 2016
|
Pluto
|
[136]
|
130
|
Michele Dougherty
|
10 January 2017
|
Saturn
|
[137]
|
131
|
Jan Zalasiewicz
|
17 January 2017
|
The Age of Man
|
[138]
|
132
|
Sadaf Farooqi
|
24 January 2017
|
What makes us fat
|
[139]
|
133
|
Alison Smith
|
31 January 2017
|
Algae
|
[140]
|
134
|
Sean Carroll
|
7 February 2017
|
How time and space began
|
[141]
|
135
|
Simon Wessely
|
14 February 2017
|
Unexplained medical syndromes
|
[142]
|
136
|
Alan Winfield
|
21 February 2017
|
Robot ethics
|
[143]
|
137
|
Alison Woollard
|
28 February 2017
|
What she has learnt from mutant worms
|
[144]
|
138
|
Daniel Dennett
|
4 April 2017
|
The evolution of the human brain
|
[145]
|
139
|
Nick Fraser
|
11 April 2017
|
Triassic reptiles
|
[146]
|
140
|
Liz Sockett
|
18 April 2017
|
Friendly killer bacteria
|
[147]
|
141
|
Graham MacGregor
|
25 April 2017
|
Tackling the demons in our diet
|
[148]
|
142
|
Ann Clarke
|
2 May 2017
|
The Frozen Ark
|
[149]
|
143
|
Fay Dowker
|
9 May 2017
|
A new theory of space-time
|
[150]
|
144
|
Ottoline Leyser
|
16 May 2017
|
How plants decide what to do
|
[151]
|
145
|
Tim O'Brien
|
23 May 2017
|
Transient stars and science and music festivals
|
[152]
|
146
|
Tamsin Mather
|
30 May 2017
|
Volcanology
|
[153]
|
147
|
Jennifer Doudna
|
19 September 2017
|
Gene editing
|
[154]
|
148
|
Tracey Rogers
|
26 September 2017
|
Leopard seals and Antarctica
|
[155]
|
149
|
Lucie Green
|
3 October 2017
|
The Sun
|
[156]
|
150
|
Steven Cowley
|
10 October 2017
|
Nuclear Fusion
|
[157]
|
151
|
Tim Birkhead
|
17 October 2017
|
Bird promiscuity
|
[158]
|
152
|
Ellen Stofan
|
24 October 2017
|
Being NASA Chief Scientist
|
[159]
|
153
|
Adrian Thomas
|
31 October 2017
|
The mechanics of flight
|
[160]
|
154
|
Eben Upton
|
16 January 2018
|
Raspberry Pi
|
[161]
|
155
|
Eugenia Cheng
|
23 January 2018
|
The mathematics of mathematics
|
[162]
|
156
|
Wendy Barclay
|
30 January 2018
|
The flu virus
|
[163]
|
157
|
Richard Henderson
|
13 February 2018
|
The molecules of life
|
[164]
|
158
|
John Burn
|
20 February 2018
|
The genetics of cancer
|
[165]
|
159
|
Ailie MacAdam
|
27 February 2018
|
The biggest construction project in Europe
|
[166]
|
160
|
Clare Grey
|
6 March 2018
|
Big battery challenge
|
[167]
|
161
|
Steve Reicher
|
13 March 2018
|
Psychology of crowds
|
[168]
|
162
|
Callum Roberts
|
1 May 2018
|
Marine conservation
|
[169]
|
163
|
Carlo Rovelli
|
8 May 2018
|
Why time is not what it seems
|
[170]
|
164
|
Caroline Dean
|
15 May 2018
|
Genetic secrets of flowering
|
[171]
|
165
|
Catherine Hobaiter
|
22 May 2018
|
Communication in apes
|
[172]
|
166
|
John Taylor
|
29 May 2018
|
Being an inventor
|
[173]
|
167
|
Sheena Cruickshank
|
5 June 2018
|
The wonders of the human immune system
|
[174]
|
168
|
Frank Close
|
12 June 2018
|
Particle physics
|
[175]
|
169
|
Rachel Mills
|
19 June 2018
|
Exploring the sea floor
|
[176]
|
170
|
Jacqueline McGlade
|
23 October 2018
|
Monitoring the environment from space
|
[177]
|
171
|
Noel Fitzpatrick
|
30 October 2018
|
Becoming a supervet
|
[178]
|
172
|
Suzanne O'Sullivan
|
6 November 2018
|
Detective of the mind
|
[179]
|
173
|
Michael Stratton
|
13 November 2018
|
Cancer genes
|
[180]
|
174
|
Caroline Hargrove
|
20 November 2018
|
Formula One
|
[181]
|
175
|
Alastair Hay
|
27 November 2018
|
Banning chemical weapons
|
[182]
|
176
|
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
|
4 December 2018
|
Sky at Night presenter
|
[183]
|
177
|
Clive Oppenheimer
|
11 December 2018
|
Volcanic offerings of our angry earth
|
[184]
|
178
|
Jim Al-Khalili
|
5 February 2019
|
HIS life scientific: Interviewed by Adam Rutherford
|
[185]
|
179
|
Sue Black
|
12 February 2019
|
Women in Technology
|
[186]
|
180
|
Gregory Winter
|
19 February 2019
|
2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
|
[187]
|
181
|
Gwen Adshead
|
26 February 2019
|
The minds of violent offenders
|
[188]
|
182
|
Donna Strickland
|
5 March 2019
|
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics
|
[189]
|
183
|
Ken Gabriel
|
12 March 2019
|
Why your Smartphone is Smart
|
[190]
|
184
|
Corinne Le Quéré
|
19 March 2019
|
Global carbon cycle
|
[191]
|
185
|
Paul Davies
|
26 March 2019
|
Origin of life and the evolution of cancer
|
[192]
|
186
|
Irene Tracey
|
2 April 2019
|
Pain in the brain
|
[192]
|
187
|
Richard Peto
|
9 April 2019
|
Why smoking kills but quitting saves lives
|
[193]
|
188
|
Erica McAlister
|
16 April 2019
|
The beauty of flies
|
[194]
|
189
|
Richard Thompson
|
25 June 2019
|
Plastic pollution
|
[195]
|
190
|
Ewine van Dishoeck
|
2 July 2019
|
Cosmic chemistry
|
[196]
|
191
|
Turi King
|
9 July 2019
|
Ancient DNA
|
[197]
|
192
|
Katherine Joy
|
16 July 2019
|
Lunar rock
|
[198]
|
193
|
Robin Dunbar
|
23 July 2019
|
Why we have friends
|
[199]
|
194
|
Jonathan Ball
|
30 July 2019
|
Arms race against viruses
|
[200]
|
195
|
Richard Wiseman
|
1 October 2019
|
Lying, luck and the paranormal
|
[201]
|
196
|
Anne Magurran
|
8 October 2019
|
How to measure biodiversity
|
[202]
|
197
|
Martha Clokie
|
15 October 2019
|
The viruses that could improve our health
|
[203]
|
198
|
Adrian Owen
|
22 October 2019
|
Scanning for awareness in the injured brain
|
[204]
|
199
|
Saiful Islam
|
29 October 2019
|
Materials to power the 21st century
|
[205]
|
200
|
Demis Hassabis
|
5 November 2019
|
Artificial intelligence
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[206]
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