The Origin of Stuff

High heel

Katy Brand tracks the extraordinary life of the high heel, from past to the present.

• 26 mins

The Origin of Stuff

Fork

Katy Brand explores the life of the unsung hero of the cutlery world – the fork.

• 26 mins

The Origin of Stuff

Wine glass

Katy Brand toasts the wine glass, learning why it became the gargantuan glass it is today

• 26 mins

The Origin of Stuff

Toilet

Katy Brand reveals how attitudes to the toilet have shaped it's place in history.

• 26 mins

The Origin of Stuff

Bed

Katy Brand reveals how our attitudes to sleep, sex and status are played out in the bed.

• 26 mins

Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall describes her life with the wild chimpanzees of Gombe.

• 26 mins

Brian Greene

Brian Greene studies the universe at the largest and smallest scales imaginable.

• 26 mins

Human Genome Project's 20th Anniversary

Twenty years of the Human Genome Project

• 26 mins

On the menu

Adam Hart explores our relationship with some of the animal kingdom's deadliest predators

• 26 mins

Frank Kelly

What difference has lockdown made to our air? Frank Kelly talks to Jim Al-Khalili.

• 26 mins

Professor Emma Bunce

Emma Bunce tells Jim Al-Khalili why she is intrigued by the gas giants Jupiter and Neptune

• 26 mins

Liz Seward

Jim Al-Khalili talks to Liz Seward, Senior Space Strategist for Airbus Defence and Space.

• 26 mins

Return to Mars

How will NASA’s latest robot rover search for life on Mars?

• 26 mins

The growling stomach

Why do our tummies rumble - and when they do, does it always mean we are hungry?

• 27 mins

The seeded cloud

Can we make it rain?

• 27 mins

The Evidence: Covid lessons for safe school reopening

Will schools and colleges reopening fuel Covid-19 spread?

• 50 mins

The sting in the tail

What’s the point of wasps?

• 27 mins

Megadrought in Chile

Why Chile has a megadrought

• 26 mins

The Evidence: Are national lockdowns evidence of policy failure?

Locked in the lockdown cycle – evidence for a more targeted response

• 51 mins

Anatomy Of Touch

Touch hunger

Why we’re starved of touch

• 26 mins

Anatomy Of Touch

Unwanted touch

How can we stop unwanted touch?

• 26 mins

Anatomy Of Touch

Affectionate touch

How we experience gentle touch

• 26 mins

Anatomy Of Touch

Digital touch

Can touch be replicated digitally?

• 26 mins

Birds: singing for survival

Birds are changing their tunes

• 26 mins

Broad spectrum

Helen Keen had a diagnosis of autism as an adult. She explores how it appears in women

• 26 mins

The end of everything

When and how is the universe going to end?

• 27 mins

The Evidence: Pandemic rules: follower or flouter?

Why a sense of “we” rather than “I” makes us more likely to follow pandemic rules

• 51 mins

The Zedonk Problem

What are ligons and tigers? What is a species?

• 27 mins

The Space Burrito

Is there a point in space where the Sun could heat a burrito perfectly? And other puzzles

• 27 mins

Steve Haake

Steve Haake talks to Jim al-Khalili about how technology improves sporting ability

• 26 mins