Podcast Episodes

The Life Scientific: Jane Goodall

The celebrated primatologist Jane Goodall died last week at the age of 91. In tribute, we’re re-sharing this interview from 2020, where she reflects on the years she spent living with the wild chimpa…

Published on 12 hours ago

The Life Scientific: Jacqueline McKinley

How much information can you extract from a burnt fragment of human bone?

Quite a lot, it turns out - not only about the individual, but also their broader lives and communities; and these are the sto…

Published on 1 week ago

The Life Scientific: Jonathan Shepherd

Surgeons often have to deal with the consequences of violent attacks - becoming all too familiar with patterns of public violence, and peaks around weekends, alcohol-infused events and occasions that…

Published on 2 weeks ago

The Life Scientific: Doyne Farmer

Doyne Farmer is something of a rebel. Back in the seventies, when he was a student, he walked into a casino in Las Vegas, sat down at a roulette table and beat the house. To anyone watching the wheel…

Published on 3 weeks ago

The Life Scientific: Tori Herridge

Elephants are the largest living land mammal and today our planet is home to three species: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant.

But a hundred thousand years…

Published on 4 weeks ago

The Life Scientific: Sir Magdi Yacoub

What does it take to earn the nickname, ‘The Leonardo da Vinci of heart surgery’?

That's the moniker given to today's guest - a man who pioneered high-profile and often controversial procedures, but a…

Published on 1 month ago

The Life Scientific: Claudia de Rham

Claudia de Rham has rather an unusual relationship with gravity.

While she has spent her career exploring its fundamental nature, much of her free time has involved trying to defy it - from scuba divi…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

The Life Scientific: Neil Lawrence

When you think of Artificial Intelligence, does it inspire confidence, or concern?

Although it's now generally accepted that this technology will play a major role in our future, a lot of conversation…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Life Scientific: Liz Morris

A frozen, white world at the far-reaches of the globe, where you're surrounded by snow and silence, might sound rather appealing. Factor in temperatures that drop to -57°C and a few of us might be pu…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Life Scientific: Anthony Fauci

Welcome to a world where medicine meets politics: a space that brings together scientific research, government wrangling, public push-back and healthcare conspiracies…

Dr Anthony Fauci was the Directo…

Published on 2 months ago